Sensitive-app censoring
Your organisation's policy can mark certain apps, websites, or windows as sensitive. While you're inside one, the tracker automatically:
- Blacks out the screen-recording video for that segment, so no one can play back what was on screen.
- Strips the window title before sending the segment for AI analysis, so the AI sees only a generic "Sensitive content" placeholder.
- Skips productivity scoring — the segment is recorded as neutral, not graded against your rubric.
You don't have to do anything to trigger this. The tracker knows the rules and applies them automatically.
Default-on categories
Most orgs enable some or all of the built-in category packs:
| Pack | Covers |
|---|---|
| Banking | Major retail banks (e.g. Chase, Wells Fargo, HSBC). |
| Payroll | Payroll platforms (Gusto, ADP, Paychex, Rippling, Deel, …). |
| HR | HR platforms (Workday, BambooHR, SuccessFactors, Lattice, …). |
| Health | Health portals (MyChart, Anthem, Cigna, Kaiser, BlueCross, NHS, …). |
| Adult | Well-known adult sites. |
Anything on a domain inside one of these packs is censored when it becomes the focused tab. The exact list per pack is maintained by ScreenJournal and updated as new providers appear.
Custom rules
In addition to the packs, your manager may have added custom rules. A custom rule matches on:
- A process name (the OS-level app),
- An app path (a specific installation of an app),
- A domain (a website),
- Or a window title substring.
Examples your org may have configured:
- Your personal email client.
- A specific compliance tool.
- A finance app or budgeting tool.
You can ask your manager what's on the list — there's nothing secret about it.
What you can see
Inside your own Activity timeline on the web, sensitive segments appear as grey blocks labelled Sensitive content. Your manager sees exactly the same thing — the censoring is symmetric.
Caveat: macOS Accessibility
For domain-based rules (Banking, Payroll, etc.) to work on macOS, the tracker needs the Accessibility OS permission so it can read the focused browser tab's URL. If you skipped that permission during install, domain rules silently fail to censor on macOS.
To grant accessibility:
- Open System Settings → Privacy & Security → Accessibility.
- Find ScreenJournal in the list and toggle it on.
- Restart the tracker.
On Windows there is no equivalent extra permission — domain matching works out of the box.
What sensitive censoring does not do
- It doesn't stop the tracker from recording. The segment still shows up in the timeline, just neutrally and without playback.
- It doesn't stop time from being tracked. If you spend an hour inside your banking app, that's an hour of tracked time, marked Sensitive content.
- It doesn't disable the microphone. Meeting capture follows its own rules; the two are independent.
If you want zero record of an interval — including the time spent — press Pause instead.