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Does the agent work without an internet connection?

Yes — if your connection drops, WorkMonitor keeps recording locally and catches the server up automatically the moment you're back online.

Yes — if your connection drops, WorkMonitor keeps recording locally and catches the server up automatically the moment you’re back online.

What this means for you

  • The tray icon’s tooltip tells you honestly what’s happening: it reads “Offline — buffering” while there’s no connection.

  • Your activity data — what you worked on and when — keeps being recorded on your machine and is held in a queue. As soon as the connection comes back, it’s sent in the background, oldest first, with nothing lost and nothing double-counted.

  • Screenshots are the one exception: they aren’t held for later. If a screenshot would have been taken during an outage, it simply isn’t — the rest of your activity for that stretch is still captured and synced normally.

  • The queue isn’t unlimited. If a machine were offline for an unusually long stretch, the oldest buffered data would be trimmed to make room for the most recent — an ordinary dropped connection or a commute isn’t something you need to plan around.

  • There’s nothing for you to do — WorkMonitor recovers on its own once the network problem clears, and you don’t need to quit or restart it.

Related

  • The menu-bar icon and pausing

  • Which operating systems does WorkMonitor support?

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