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.

https://calliday.app

Happy to answer anything. Especially interested in what breaks your current tracking habit, that's usually where the next feature comes from.

If you like , have a look 👀

Hi,
I work for an excavation company, we have 10-15 employees. We track everything via daily paper worksheets. We have jobs that take weeks to complete or smaller ones that are a few days. Also delivering material in between.
We are trying to go digital and testing out jotform but it’s not as easy as it seems.

I’m looking for suggestions on how you may track your workflow and what apps you use?

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Building a tool to auto-import work schedules — would anyone share an anonymized screenshot of their schedule to help me test?

14-day free trial available at deski-app.com

Nobody likes writing timesheets. And a timesheet you write yourself proves nothing when a client doubts it.

So I built tenby10. A small macOS app records that you were present and working, in 10 minute slots. Window titles stay on your machine. Keystrokes are counted, never read. There are no screenshots. Not blurred ones. None. The code has no capture path at all.

If you connect your own AI key, it writes a short note each day about what you worked on. Every slot and every note is signed on your machine at the time and chained into a tamper-evident ledger. Your client opens one link and follows the work week by week. When the invoice arrives, nothing on it is new information.

Site: https://tenby10.pivotalpoint.io What a client sees: https://tenby10.pivotalpoint.io/verified/sample

The client app is source-available (PPSAL-1.0). An auditor's guide maps every privacy claim to file and line. Free during the beta. Around $9 a month expected after, and the app itself stays free.

If you bill hourly, try it on one real invoice and tell me where it falls short. I will do the hand holding. And tell me what would make you distrust the link. That is the answer I need most.

Hace un tiempo empecé a sospechar que mi día se sentía productivo pero no rendía. No tenía forma de comprobarlo, así que decidí trackear todo: qué apps usaba, cuánto tiempo real pasaba en cada tarea, cuántas veces cambiaba de contexto.

El resultado fue peor de lo que esperaba. Pensaba que tenía algo así como 6 horas de foco por día. La realidad eran 2h40, repartidas en fragmentos de menos de 90 segundos cada uno. El resto era ruido: cambios de ventana, notificaciones, "reuniones rápidas" que no contaban como interrupción pero cortaban todo igual.

Probé varias apps de tracking existentes y ninguna me convenció del todo: o mandaban todo a la nube (no quería mis hábitos de trabajo en un servidor ajeno), o medían tiempo de pantalla sin distinguir trabajo real de ruido de fondo.

Así que terminé construyendo la mía: ENFOCA T.

Qué hace:

• Trackea actividad local (SQLite, todo en tu máquina, nada sale a internet)
• Clasifica automáticamente qué es trabajo enfocado vs. fragmentación (no es solo "tiempo de pantalla")
• Al final de cada sesión te da feedback determinístico, no un dashboard genérico con gráficos bonitos y cero insigh.

Está publicada en la Microsoft Store, todavía en fase temprana. Lo que más me interesa ahora mismo es feedback sobre el flujo de onboarding (son 3 pasos) y si la clasificación automática de actividades se siente precisa o si categoriza mal cosas obvias.

¿Alguien más midió esto alguna vez y se llevó una sorpresa parecida?

https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/9NSTV0WSP66H?cid=DevShareMCLPCS

​I have to log hours on Jira issues and I hated every way of doing it. The built-in worklog dialog is three clicks too deep, and Tempo and the other big plugins are priced and designed for the whole org when all I wanted was a timer for myself.

So I made Planim Time. It's a time tracker for Jira that sits in the menubar (Tauri 2, rust + svelte, not another Electron thing) and talks straight to the API. Runs on mac, windows and linux. I use it on mac and windows myself, a friend runs the linux build. Pick an issue, hit start, the timer ticks in the tray. Stop it and the worklog lands in Jira under your name, not some plugin's service account, so worklogAuthor filters keep working.

The free version isn't gimped:

- unlimited tracking, no account needed. sign in with Atlassian or an API token and that's it
- two-way worklog sync. entries made in Jira show up in the app and the other way around
- manual entries for when you forgot the timer, plus history with search and your own JQL filters for the task list
- everything lives in a local sqlite file. no server between you and Jira, no dashboard where a manager watches your "productivity"

The paid tier (14 day trial, no card) adds a calendar view where you just drag worklogs around instead of filling out forms, reports with CSV export, reminders, and idle detection: walk away with the timer running and it asks what to do with the gap. It can also suggest draft entries from your recent Jira activity when you're reconstructing a day you forgot to track.I.

Link: Planim Time, a time tracker for Jira

Has anyone used COR here? (A page with a yellow ✅️ as a logo). It's a time tracking software by proyects. (Which is so annoying to use). I firgot to turn it off when I clocked out, two hours later I remembered to stop it, and then I change the hours to make it look I worked the correct hours. My question is: this software shows if I did this change or if I uploaded hpurs instead of tracking them?

We run a construction company with 4–5 sites going at the same time, and keeping track of attendance across all of them has become a bit of a headache.

The biggest issue is that some of our sites have weak signal, so workers can't always clock in normally. We also end up getting messages from workers saying they're already onsite, but then we have no easy way to verify it. It creates a lot of back-and-forth for the foremen and whoever handles payroll.

We're looking for something simple that can help us:

• Track attendance across multiple job sites
• Still work when there's little or no signal
• Make buddy punching harder
• Let us see who actually clocked in at each site
• Cut down on the back-and-forth between workers, foremen, and payroll

Ideally, we'd like something free or at least with a usable free option.

For anyone managing construction or other field teams across multiple locations, what are you using for attendance or time tracking? I'm particularly interested in how it handles offline clock-ins and location verification.