What Are Reliable Minutes?
Understand reliable minutes and why they matter more than raw recorded time.
Everything the app captured
Recorded time includes raw coverage, even when some periods are too noisy for analysis.
Only the minutes you can trust
Reliable minutes remove low-confidence periods so comparisons stay more meaningful.
Compare with less noise
Hydrogen can give cleaner answers when the comparison is based on reliable coverage.
Reliable minutes protect comparison quality
If you use raw recorded time alone, you can mistake noisy data for a real pattern. Reliable minutes make the comparison stricter and safer.
- Recorded
- 1,720m
- Sample total raw time captured during the week.
- Reliable
- 1,428m
- Sample usable coverage after filtering noisy periods.
- Coverage quality
- 83%
- Sample share of captured time strong enough to compare.
Treat low reliable minutes as a confidence warning
Low reliable minutes do not make the day useless. They mean the day should carry less weight in stronger conclusions.
- Use recorded minutes to understand volume.
- Use reliable minutes to judge comparison quality.
- Treat interrupted days as context, not proof.
- Prefer several normal days over one high-volume noisy day.
Quick answers
Reliable minutes are the minutes you can trust enough to use in comparisons, not just the minutes that were recorded.
Recorded minutes can include noisy or low-confidence periods, which makes comparisons less trustworthy.
You should care whenever you want Hydrogen to compare one period against another with less guesswork.
Install and track first
Track a few normal workdays, then compare reliable minutes before asking for deeper analysis.