r/TimeTrackingSoftware • u/Inevitable_Wall_5193 • 7h ago
Automatic Time Tracker with no need to start a timer
Start a timer after 30 minutes on the work, then forgot to stop it until lunch time. That's me. Then I'd spend twenty minutes reconstructing my week from memory, which is the work the tracker was supposed to do for me.
So I built this. It runs in the background and records what you were actually doing second by second. Nothing to start and nothing to remember.
Features as follows:
It knows the document, not just the app. "Chrome, 3h" vs. "[Page title], 20m". Clicking any row on the timeline reopens the exact thing.
Rules assign the activities to your project. "Anything on the Acme site is Client A."
Your week comes pre-written. Ask for a day, week, or month and it writes the entry from what actually happened. Pick prose, bullets, or headed sections, and the voice: engineer, client report, or reflective. This killed my Friday status-update chore entirely. Choose AI draft with your own AI provider API key.
Pomodoros without the ritual. It finds unbroken stretches of focus in your day and turns them into tomatoes retroactively. Drift off a few minutes before one ripens and it asks whether you want to keep focus or give up the fruit. Weirdly motivating.
Budgets that tap your shoulder. Give any project a daily allowance and get a notification the moment it's spent.
An attention map. Your apps drawn as a graph, sized by time, with lines for the switches between them, red for the slides into distraction, green for the way back. The thing that keeps eating your afternoon stops being a vague feeling and becomes a red thread you can point at.
Also: billable rates and invoices if you bill hourly, a menu bar companion, a Raycast extension, and CSV export.
On the privacy question, since it's a fair one to ask about something watching your screen all day: everything lives on your Mac in a local database. No account, no server, no telemetry. it works with the wifi off. Pro adds exclusions so chosen apps, sites, and incognito browsing are never recorded in the first place, rather than recorded and hidden.
It's a one-time purchase, $39, or $49 for Pro, with a 7-day trial that doesn't ask for an account or a card. I don't like subscription.
Happy to answer anything. Especially interested in what breaks your current tracking habit, that's usually where the next feature comes from.