The instant demo is a nice touch. Personally, what's stopping me from using an app like this is that I don't trust myself to not absentmindedly shift over to some distraction, or get interrupted by my wife and/or kids while I'm tracking some task.
In those cases, to hold myself accountable, I have to go back to the app, stop the current task, edit the time it stopped at, add a new entry for the distraction, then add yet another new entry to get back to work.
Hey, thanks for checking. I appreciate it! I built a “subtract” feature for this use case. Once you’ve stopped doing a task, you can subtract whatever minutes you felt distracted. You can enable this in settings, and set a default value. I use it to subtract 30 minutes from my day of work for lunch time.
Despite it's steep price and Mac-exclusivity, I've found https://timingapp.com to be invaluable.
It logs open applications, documents, meetings, calendar events and recently even iPhone apps. You can then, manually or automatically, create time-blocks from this data.
I usually use it at the end of the day, but I once was able to recreate a rough timesheet for the last three months in 10 minutes.
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The instant demo is a nice touch. Personally, what's stopping me from using an app like this is that I don't trust myself to not absentmindedly shift over to some distraction, or get interrupted by my wife and/or kids while I'm tracking some task.
In those cases, to hold myself accountable, I have to go back to the app, stop the current task, edit the time it stopped at, add a new entry for the distraction, then add yet another new entry to get back to work.
Hey, thanks for checking. I appreciate it! I built a “subtract” feature for this use case. Once you’ve stopped doing a task, you can subtract whatever minutes you felt distracted. You can enable this in settings, and set a default value. I use it to subtract 30 minutes from my day of work for lunch time.
Despite it's steep price and Mac-exclusivity, I've found https://timingapp.com to be invaluable.
It logs open applications, documents, meetings, calendar events and recently even iPhone apps. You can then, manually or automatically, create time-blocks from this data.
I usually use it at the end of the day, but I once was able to recreate a rough timesheet for the last three months in 10 minutes.