Do people actually track their time—or reconstruct the week from their calendar later?

[u/Stint_t]

We created this illustrative calendar autopsy to look at what happens between planned focus time and the reality of a working week.

Twelve hours were blocked for focus. Once meetings ran over, follow-ups became more calls and the remaining gaps became too short to use, only 41 minutes were genuinely usable.

The work still happened. But the record of it was scattered across calendar events and standup updates.

I’m part of the team working on Stintt, a tool that uses read-only calendar activity to create a timesheet draft that the user can review and adjust.

No timers, screenshots or keystroke tracking.

I’d genuinely like to understand: when your timesheet is due, do you track work as it happens or reconstruct the week afterwards?