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Posted: 20 Jun 2021 03:00 AM PDT

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I made a time tracker that simplifies time tracking by periodically asking what you are doing, instead of using timers.

Posted: 20 Jun 2021 01:29 AM PDT

Tl;dr: I made a time tracker that radically simplifies time tracking by periodically asking what you are doing. It provides a better way to track your daily activities without the hassle of timers, stopwatches, or note-taking. Available via the Mac App Store.

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Hi r/apple, hope you are doing fine!

Years ago, I used to work as an iOS developer for a digital agency. Each Friday, I was asked to submit my hours for that week. I estimated these hours by examining emails, reviewing commits, and finding attended meetings. Like many, I experienced it as a tedious task. Yet, it was of great importance for invoicing and budgeting purposes.

I started looking for apps to help me. Most time tracking apps required me to toggle timers when switching between tasks. I often forgot to do this, making the resulting timesheets inaccurate. Other solutions followed an automatic approach by tracking the apps I used, documents I wrote, and the websites I visited. Not knowing exactly what happened with that data, I felt those apps could potentially harm my privacy.

Working on my thesis and conducting quantitative research, I realized that data sampling could be a great alternative for tracking time. Daily is the resulting implementation of that approach. It works by asking what the user is doing and provides a better way to track time without the hassle of toggling timers. It also protects the privacy of the user by not collecting data other than what the user has explicitly provided.

Fast-forwarding to 2021, thousands of employees, freelancers, founders, and other professionals working in various industries are tracking their time using Daily. They use its timesheets to submit hours, create invoices, or simply increase their productivity.

I hope it can be useful for you too, especially now as you are likely working from home and might need some help protecting your work/life balance.

Have a great Sunday!

Niels

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Safari 15 on Mac OS, a user interface mess

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