Page 365 - Windows 10 May 2019 Update The Missing Manual: The Book That Should Have Been in the Box

Windows starts out showing you a maximum of two rows of

cards for each day. To see everything you did that day, hit “See all
23 activities” (or whatever the number is) next to the date. A new
screen opens, showing all activities, even though you may have to
scroll a lot more now. (To return to the two-rows-maximum view,

use the “See only top activities” link at the top.)

Scroll back into the past by scrolling down, using the right-side

scroll bar.

Use the button (top right) to search all the “cards” at once,

from all devices, across all 30 days.

If you have multiple Microsoft accounts set up on this

computer (home and work accounts, for example), you can
specify which ones’ activities appear on your Timeline. Open

→ → Privacy → “Activity history.” Turn on or off the accounts
you want the Timeline to show.

You can delete a card. Right-click it; from the shortcut menu,

choose Remove. Handy if you were up to something you’d rather
keep to yourself.

You can delete all cards from a certain day. Right-click any card
on that day; from the shortcut menu, choose “Clear all from
yesterday” (or whatever day it is).

To turn off the Timeline feature entirely, open → →
Privacy → “Activity history.” Turn off “Let Windows collect my

activities from this PC” (which controls the appearance of activity
cards for what you do on this machine), as well as “Let Windows

sync my activities from this PC to the cloud” (which prevents the
activity cards showing up in the Timeline of your other Windows
10 machines).

To exit the Timeline (and Task View), press +Tab again, or hit the Esc

key, or click or tap a blank spot of the background, or hit the icon.