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Calendar heatmap widget
The calendar heatmap displays an entire year of activity on a single widget, with each day coloured by intensity to show how much happened. Hotter colours indicate more activity, cooler colours indicate less, and empty days stay neutral, so patterns in productivity and workload become visible at a glance without drilling into individual records.
What the heatmap tracks
The heatmap's data source determines what gets counted per day. Options include tasks completed, time entries logged, invoices created, or any other countable metric from the available data sources (tasks, invoices, time entries, transactions, contacts, proposals, contracts). Switching the data source changes what the colour intensity represents, so the same heatmap layout can show task completion patterns one moment and invoicing activity the next.
Reading the heatmap
Each cell represents one day, arranged in a grid that mirrors a calendar year (similar to a contribution chart). The colour gradient runs from light (low activity) to saturated (high activity), with the scale adjusting to the data range. Hovering over any day reveals the exact count for that date, so spikes and dips are readable as numbers, not just colour differences.
Spotting patterns in the heatmap
The heatmap makes weekly and seasonal rhythms visible. Clusters of intense colour highlight busy periods, while pale stretches expose lulls. A team that consistently completes fewer tasks on Fridays shows up as a vertical stripe of lighter cells across the year. Because the heatmap compresses an entire year into one view, long-term productivity trends and workload imbalances surface without running separate reports or comparing date ranges manually.
