More minutes do not explain the change on their own
February 2026 has 28 days and March has 31. When comparing recorded minutes for both months in Ora, the second period contains three more days. Before treating a higher total as a changed habit, check period length, filters and what you actually recorded.
Ora Pro offers reports by week, month or date range, with filtering, period comparison and CSV export. This guide uses a hypothetical example, not account results, and does not claim Ora automatically calculates a daily average.
280 versus 310: check the denominator too
Imagine 280 recorded minutes in February and 310 in March within the same category. The second total is 30 minutes higher. Yet 280 divided by 28 and 310 divided by 31 both equal 10 minutes per calendar day.
This is a manual calculation for reading these figures, not a productivity measure or proof you spent ten minutes every day. Those minutes could have been recorded on only a few days. To compare active days or working days, identify them and apply the same criterion to both periods.
Do not mix planned and recorded time either. A month with 310 planned minutes and another with 280 recorded minutes do not form this comparison.
Prepare a comparison you can explain
Before drawing a conclusion from reports, choose your question: monthly recorded total, category breakdown or behaviour across equally long ranges. These are different comparisons.
- Keep the same filter and the same type of time for both periods.
- For equivalent ranges, explicitly select dates such as the 1st through the 28th of each month. Obtain totals for those ranges again; do not mentally trim the March total.
- Check for missing sessions or a timer you forgot to stop. Correct only what you can reconstruct; a gap in recording does not prove no work happened.
- Export CSV if you need to check the calculation outside the report. Dividing by days in this example is your own analytical choice.
What decision follows from the review
The fictional totals of 280 and 310 only describe those minutes and the calculated calendar-day average. To decide how much time to reserve next month, also consider upcoming tasks, available time and whether the recorded sample represents what you want to plan.
Ora supports timers and manual corrections for recorded time; planned-versus-recorded comparison belongs to Pro. Reports do not turn more minutes into better work quality by themselves. Check current features and choose a specific question before opening the next report.