Exclusions

Timing's Exclusions feature lets you prevent specific app activities from being tracked on your Mac. It's in Settings > Exclusions.

Simply specify rules for the activities you do not want to be tracked, and Timing will ignore them in the future. Activities it recorded earlier stay as they are.
The rule format is the same as for project and filter rules, so the same documentation applies for the exclusion list.

The menu at the top of the rules decides what they do:

• Don't track activities that match any of the following excludes everything that matches at least one rule.
• Don't track activities that match all of the following excludes only what matches every rule.
• Track only activities that match any of the following turns the list around: Timing tracks only what matches, and nothing else.

To nest rules in a group, use the menu next to + or ⌥-click +.

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Excluding incognito web browsing activity

If you are browsing in a private or incognito window of Safari, Google Chrome, Brave, Vivaldi, Comet, Firefox or Zen, Timing will discard that window's title and URL and replace them with just a title of "Private".
So if you'd like to prevent time spent in incognito windows from being tracked at all, simply add a rule like "Title is equal to 'Private'" to the exclusion list.

Please note that Timing can occasionally miss a private window, for example when the browser uses a language Timing doesn't know yet, or after a browser update changes how these windows are labeled.

If you'd rather have Timing track your incognito browser windows like any other window, please click this link. To revert the setting, click this link instead.