This is a focused take on time tracking: less about reconstructing every minute, more about deciding today’s limits and hearing an alarm when one is gone. The tradeoff is that day boundaries and countdown semantics need to be unambiguous.
OwnTime
A chess clock for your day to manage priorities with daily time budgets on iPhone and Apple Watch.
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OwnTime lets you define a few daily priorities, each with a set time budget, and tracks time spent on one priority at a time like a chess clock. It alerts you when a budget is spent, syncing between iPhone and Apple Watch without accounts or servers. Data can be exported as a SQLite database for your own analysis. Supports Siri integration and is privacy-focused with no cloud storage.
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Show HN118 source points · 67 comments
I don’t understand what the timers labeled “still yours” mean in the sample images. Is that just a user label or some sort of special category for eg uncategorized time? I also don’t understand what the different colored parts of the ring represent.
pimlottc · Imported from Show HN
This is a great (and tight) execution of a neat concept. I'm not in the garden of Apple so unfortunately I can't play with it, but the preview is thorough. I particularly like the voice integration. I sympathise with some of the time allocation issues you mention, particularly when it comes to important but not urgent things. Relatedly - I've struggled a lot in the last year with time tracking for fixed price projects (not so important, but useful) and billable hours (very important) largely due to the amount of parallelism I now do; and I think this notion of a "chess clock" may unblock me on building my own tracker for this!
Normal_gaussian · Imported from Show HN
Very nice, I like your approach and design. Counting up would be preferred for me on some tasks. Sometimes the timesheet approach is needed, it'd be great if you could support both.
deanputney · Imported from Show HN
I'm a little confused the you and me in “Alarms you when this budget runs out” and "Also cue me to wrap up time",
michael_luog · Imported from Show HN
if I understand correctly, the time set are not extendable no? Preset color themes would be nice to have :)
torranx · Imported from Show HN