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Window title privacy

Window title tracking records the titles of the windows you work in, and titles can contain personal information: email subjects, document names, private web addresses. WhatPulse 6.3 ships with a privacy layer that lets you control exactly what gets stored. All of it lives in Settings > Exclusions.

There are three layers, and you can combine them:

  1. Exclude specific applications from title tracking (their uptime still counts).
  2. Filter titles by content, so anything matching a pattern is hidden across every app.
  3. Incognito and private browser windows are always hidden, automatically.

Instead of the real title, a hidden title is stored as a placeholder: [Excluded] for excluded applications, [Filtered] for pattern matches, and [Private] for incognito windows.

Exclude applications from title tracking​

Under Settings > Exclusions > Application exclusions, each excluded application is shown as a tag. There are two kinds of exclusions:

  • All stats: the application is dropped from every statistic entirely.
  • Window titles: the application's uptime and input keep counting as normal, but its window titles are stored as [Excluded].
Screenshot: Application exclusions with two excluded apps

Click Add applications to open the app picker. It lists your currently running applications with their icons, has a search box, and lets you choose the exclusion type with Exclude titles only or Exclude all stats. Click a tag to remove an exclusion again.

Screenshot: Select applications to exclude

Filter sensitive titles by content​

Under Settings > Exclusions > Window title content filtering, you can add patterns that hide matching titles in every application. Patterns are regular expressions, and any title that matches is stored as [Filtered].

Click Add and enter a regular expression. A simple word works too: entering confidential hides every title containing that word. Invalid expressions are rejected with an error, so you cannot save a broken pattern.

Built-in filters​

Three ready-made filters are included. They are off by default; tick the checkbox to enable one:

  • Email addresses: hides titles containing an email address.
  • Credit card numbers: hides titles containing 13-19 digit card-like numbers.
  • URL credentials: hides titles where a web address carries login details such as tokens, passwords, or API keys.

The built-in filters can be turned on and off, but not deleted. Your own patterns can be edited, toggled, and removed at any time.

Screenshot: Window title content filtering with built-in filters

Incognito and private windows​

Titles from incognito and private browsing windows (Chrome Incognito, Edge InPrivate, Firefox and Safari Private Browsing, and localized variants) are always stored as [Private]. This is built in and always on; there is nothing to configure.

Turning title tracking off entirely​

If you would rather not record window titles at all, turn off Per Window Title under Settings > Active Stats in the Uptime column. Application and computer uptime keep working as before.

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