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Glossary

The words Deskathon uses, in one place.

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Distance and comparisons

Distance	How far your pointer has traveled, worked out from the physical size of each display. Shown in meters and kilometers, or feet and miles, as you choose in Settings › General › Units.
Odometer	The rolling digits that show today’s distance, as on a car’s dashboard.
Landmark	A real-world length that puts your distance in perspective, such as “≈ 1.5× Burj Khalifa”. There are ten, from an Olympic pool (50 m) to the Moon. Landmarks are free. See Lifetime, landmarks and trips.
Trip	A journey, such as London → Paris (344 km), that your lifetime distance is measured against. The Lifetime tab shows the current one.
Lifetime	Everything counted since Deskathon started, or since the last time you chose Erase All Data….
Last 7 days	A rolling window that ends today. It isn’t a calendar week.

Counting

Tracked day	A day with at least one count. The first tracked day is where the day arrows stop when you go back. Days tracked on the Lifetime tab counts these days.
Clicks	Left, right and other clicks. Deskathon counts them and records where they happened on a display, never what was under the pointer.
Scroll distance	How far you scroll, measured like distance and shown with a comparison in pages.
Page	The unit for scroll comparisons: an A4 sheet, 29.7 cm tall, with metric units, or a US Letter sheet, 11 in tall, with imperial units.
Scroll session	A stretch of scrolling. It ends after 2 seconds without scrolling.
Jump	A pointer movement longer than a third of the larger display’s longer side. Deskathon ignores it, because it isn’t movement you made. See How counting works.
Diagonal	A display’s size measured corner to corner, without the bezel. Deskathon reads it from the display and lets you correct it in Settings › Displays.
Mirrored displays	Displays that show the same picture. They count once.
Pause	Stops counting for 1 hour, until tomorrow or until you resume. The pause survives a restart.
Short numbers	A setting that shows the menu bar figure with fewer digits, for example 2.3 km instead of 2.31 km.

Screens and features

Menu bar item	Deskathon’s icon and today’s figure, near the clock. Click it for the panel; right-click it for a short menu.
Panel	What opens when you click the menu bar item: today’s distance, clicks and scroll, and the last 7 days. See Menu bar and panel.
Main window	The window with the sidebar: Today, History, Heat Map, Keyboard, Scroll, Lifetime, Widgets, Settings and Feedback.
Heat map	A picture of one display showing where the pointer was, or where you clicked. It never shows screen content. See Heat Map.
Layer	The Heat Map choice between Movement and Clicks.
Records	Your best days in History: longest day, most clicks, most scroll, most keys, longest scroll session and best week. A Pro feature. See History and records.
Share card	An image of your numbers that you save or share. It shows no names or times. See Share cards.
Widget	Today’s numbers on your desktop or in Notification Center, in Small, Medium and Large. See Widgets.

Keyboard counting

Keyboard counting	An optional setting that counts how many keys you press each hour. Never which keys, and never what you type. It is off until you turn it on.
Input Monitoring	The macOS permission that keyboard counting needs. You allow it in System Settings › Privacy & Security › Input Monitoring.
Secure Input	A macOS mode that hides key presses from other apps, for example while you type in a password field. Deskathon doesn’t count keys while it is on, and resumes on its own.
Typed page	An estimate used on the Keyboard tab. One page is 1,800 key presses.

Pro and your data

Deskathon Pro	A one-time in-app purchase that shows every day you have recorded and unlocks more cards and widgets. Counting stays free. See Deskathon Pro.
Family Sharing	Lets people in your family group use Pro too.
Export CSV	Saves your counts as a spreadsheet file with one row per hour. Free.
Erase All Data	Removes every count and restarts Lifetime. It can’t be undone.
Sharing with VPO Labs	Optional switches in Settings › Privacy & Data for anonymous usage and crash reports. They are off unless you turn them on, and they never carry distances, counts or heat maps. See Privacy and your data.