FAQ
Questions about Yayday, answered.
What Yayday is, how privacy works, and how professionals use it for work tracking, status updates, and performance review prep.
- What is Yayday?
- Yayday is a private work tracker for professionals. It helps you capture daily work, preserve accomplishments, draft status updates, prepare for performance reviews, and build a portable record of your capabilities.
- Who is Yayday for?
- Yayday is for employees, contractors, consultants, and managers preparing their own updates. Anyone who wants to remember what they did, communicate it clearly, and keep a record that travels with them across roles can use Yayday.
- Is Yayday private?
- Yes. Yayday is private by default. Nothing you capture is shared until you choose to share it, and you control exactly what you show and to whom.
- Does Yayday protect company-sensitive details?
- Yayday is designed to help you capture work value while reducing company-sensitive details before ordinary work records and public profile copy are saved. When you add work text, Yayday reviews it for details that may be too specific — like company names, customer names, internal project names, URLs, dollar amounts, and IDs — and helps turn it into safer, more general work evidence. This review uses automatic detection plus AI-assisted generalization, so the text you enter may be processed using AI. It reduces sensitive details but does not guarantee every detail is removed, so you should still avoid entering information you are not allowed to store outside approved systems.
- Can my employer see my Yayday account?
- No. Yayday is your personal, private work record, not an employer system. Your employer does not have access to your account, and Yayday is not an employer surveillance or monitoring tool.
- Should I use my work email?
- We generally recommend using a personal email instead of a work email. Your Yayday account is meant to travel with you across roles and employers, so keeping it on a personal email helps you retain access if you change jobs.
- How is Yayday different from a task manager?
- Task managers help you remember what you need to do. Yayday helps you remember the value of what you did — the outcomes, impact, and capabilities behind your completed work — so you can communicate it later.
- How is Yayday different from Notion or Todoist?
- Notion is a flexible workspace and Todoist is a task manager; both are great for organizing work in the moment. Yayday is purpose-built for one job: turning the work you actually did into status updates, review prep, and a portable record of your capabilities. Many people use Yayday alongside those tools.
- How is Yayday different from LinkedIn?
- LinkedIn is a public profile of claims and titles. Yayday is a private, detailed record of what you actually did and why it mattered. You can use that record to write a stronger LinkedIn profile, but Yayday itself is not public.
- How does Yayday help with performance reviews?
- Yayday helps you avoid scrambling before a review by preserving completed work, outcomes, feedback, points of pride, and impact themes as the work happens — so your review prep is grounded in real examples instead of memory.
- How does Yayday help with status updates?
- Because Yayday already holds your real tasks, progress, blockers, and completed work, it helps you draft clearer status updates quickly instead of starting from a blank page.
- Can contractors and consultants use Yayday?
- Yes. Independent professionals use Yayday to maintain a client-ready record of deliverables, progress, value created, and follow-up needs across engagements.
- Does Yayday track hours?
- No. Yayday does not track hours in V1. It focuses on capturing the work itself and the value behind it, not time logging.
- Can I share work from Yayday?
- Yes, on your terms. You decide what to share and when. Sharing is always your choice, and the rest of your record stays private.
- What should I capture in Yayday?
- Capture the work that matters: assignments and responsibilities, progress and blockers, completed work, outcomes and impact, feedback you receive, and moments you are proud of. Over time this becomes a clear record of your scope and capabilities.
- Is Yayday an employer performance management system?
- No. Yayday is a private tool for individual professionals, not an employer-owned performance management or monitoring system. The record belongs to you.
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