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Show HN: Timeretain – Track, visualize, and export your hours

105 点作者 heresjohnny超过 2 年前
Hi HN,<p>I made this because I needed to track how much I work and on what. Timeretain allows you to track time using a fast, private feed of time cards. It displays your stats next to it, and you can filter to zoom in on a description or tag. You can always export what&#x27;s in view.<p>It&#x27;s different from other time trackers because it&#x27;s powerful <i>and</i> minimalist. Here&#x27;s how I use it.<p>I need to hold myself accountable. I want to know how much I&#x27;ve worked in a week, and Timeretain immediately shows that — no need to create extensive &#x27;reports&#x27;. Next, a log of what I did is useful for standup. I can get that from my feed, which loads quickly. Finally, I have to track time for specific topics. With Timeretain, I can add tags on the fly — it doesn&#x27;t require me to create and manage &#x27;projects&#x27;.<p>I would love to hear your feedback. There&#x27;s an instant demo on the landing page; you don&#x27;t have to share personal details to test.

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badrequest超过 2 年前
The instant demo is a nice touch. Personally, what&#x27;s stopping me from using an app like this is that I don&#x27;t trust myself to not absentmindedly shift over to some distraction, or get interrupted by my wife and&#x2F;or kids while I&#x27;m tracking some task.<p>In those cases, to hold myself accountable, I have to go back to the app, stop the current task, edit the time it stopped at, add a new entry for the distraction, then add yet another new entry to get back to work.
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chrisweekly超过 2 年前
You should implement this as an Obsidian (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;obsidian.md" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;obsidian.md</a>) plugin, I think it&#x27;d get traction among the TFT crowd there most of whom use a daily note.
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macmac超过 2 年前
Looks cool. I am an avid org-mode user which I also use for coding&#x2F;writing&#x2F;email, so probably not the target audience. Why no &quot;pause&quot; button?
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garyrob超过 2 年前
I&#x27;m going to try this. It may be exactly what I&#x27;ve been looking for. The &quot;subtract&quot; feature is killer because, like another commenter here, I tend to get distracted and need to subtract from a time allocation, but other solutions make that harder than it should be.
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hobo_mark超过 2 年前
Ha, I just built something similar for myself over the winter holidays. It&#x27;s just a Google Chat bot duct taped to Google Calendar with a bit of Apps Script, but seeing how I spend my days visually has been extremely motivating in adjusting my routine and habits. Best of luck to you.
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kqr超过 2 年前
I would like to see more of these tools except based on work sampling instead of trusting the user to accurately report a full account of their time.<p>Basically the tool I&#x27;m imagining would ping me (in the asynchronous email sense, so not actively disturb me) at random intervals with the question &quot;what were you just doing?&quot;<p>The basic problem is that self-reporting is not very reliable. I don&#x27;t have the study at hand, but it is fairly noise and consistently biased in favour of some types of tasks and against others. I believe work sampling could be more accurate, but I have yet to see someone develop that tool.
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wh33zle超过 2 年前
I recently started contracting and needed to track my hours for that. Tried a few services but none did quite what I wanted.<p>I am an avid user of standardnotes.com so I wrote myself an editor to do the time tracking: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;thomaseizinger&#x2F;sn-timesheet-editor">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;thomaseizinger&#x2F;sn-timesheet-editor</a><p>This gives me sync across my devices for free and the data format is just CSV so I can easily paste it into a spreadsheet app and do the end of month accounting.
pitched超过 2 年前
I use my calendar for this. The event name is my notes for what I did. I find I forget to hit start (or stop) at the exact perfect time with these tools so they’re always only showing a partial view. With the calendar, I can go through and add in events for what I did in the morning or the day before.<p>Also, the best tool I’ve found for accountability is to try and predict what you will spend time on before hand. So I have one calendar for my plan that I make first thing in the morning and another for what actually happened.
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yscodes超过 2 年前
I made something very similar a while ago but thought it wouldn&#x27;t be interesting to users because you need to do too many inputs, costing extra time.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;coffeecoding&#x2F;EazyTime">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;coffeecoding&#x2F;EazyTime</a><p>Would love to hear feedback on the concept&#x2F;design because I already know the <i>code</i> is utter junk (I was just playing around with Flutter for the first time).<p>Maybe I should pick it up again hmmm...
perilunar超过 2 年前
&gt; &quot;Jim James - Totally not a fake person&quot;<p>made me laugh.
tquinn35超过 2 年前
I am not saying that everything should be free but once this has a price tag I can&#x27;t see why I would pay for this when I can use Toggl for free. Toggl is more mature thus more feature rich and stable, it would be a hard switch.
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thatwasunusual超过 2 年前
&gt; I needed to track how much I work and on what.<p>Why?
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nojs超过 2 年前
I love the GAN testimonial :D
tiku超过 2 年前
I swear by Wakatime..
mittermayr超过 2 年前
Things that come to mind when clicking through:<p>- Loads super fast (nice), I actually was puzzled by how fast it showed up<p>- I thought the &#x27;totally not a fake person&#x27; was funny in a way, but then I realized that it slightly soured the overall impression a bit; which brings me to:<p>- I clicked away before trying the tool, because I&#x27;ve tried hundreds of similar services before, and probably half if not two thirds of them have completely disappeared overnight. They were also created by an indie maker who failed&#x2F;struggled to monetize or lost interest, and my data and habits were caught up in a broken tool. So...<p>Some suggestions I could think of:<p>While it can be honest and transparent to play up the &quot;hey I made this myself over a couple of weekends&quot; indie maker vibe (I do the same thing), it really depends on the tool you&#x27;re pushing, I&#x27;d argue. If I should switch to this tool as a time tracking tool, I want reliability, I want uptime, I want to be able (and try) to export my data to move on to another tool if necessary, I want to know that this tool will be as reliable as a hammer or screwdriver I&#x27;m buying at the hardware store. If this looks or feels like &quot;a fun&quot; experiment, then I&#x27;m out, because my work is not allowing me to play around too much with those.<p>I think you can win long-term users by making sure they can really trust to get their data out again (like you do with the Excel export at the bottom, but I only saw that on second glance when I started writing this here), but also if you decide to shut it down one lonely evening. If there&#x27;s even a small chance I log on one random Monday, and I am confronted with an unpaid V-Server or DigitalOcean droplet warning thing, then I am not even going to give it a try. This tool doesn&#x27;t have anyone on the payroll, your motivation to keep it alive is potentially very, very slim. That&#x27;s what I&#x27;m worried about, even if I am totally wrong.<p>It&#x27;s not easy to solve &quot;trust&quot; for a &quot;weekend project by one person&quot;, but it&#x27;s also not impossible to do so. Others go open-source (which I don&#x27;t necessarily recommend) to be clear on &quot;if I fold, you at least have the sources to continue using it&quot;, some may prefer an automated data backup (upload a copy to an FTP, or S3, or by e-mail, daily) — whatever, I am not a pro on solutions here, I am however good at worrying :)<p>Think of the risk assessment potential new users have to go through. Make sure you take care of the most prominent issues on that route and then think about the rest, like pricing, website, how &#x27;transparent&#x27; or not you&#x27;d like to be.<p>If you&#x27;d just thrown up a great API that let us train GPT-like models or Dall-E type renderings for next-to-nothing, then you could have a literal middle finger as the only image on that page and people would sign up like crazy.<p>If you&#x27;re planning to launch a tool that has thousands of similar competitors, and they&#x27;re mostly competing by reliability, pricing and time-in-the-market — it may be smart to focus on the user journey (and persona you&#x27;re expecting to convert) a bit more.<p>Hope that helps!
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reality_inspctr超过 2 年前
super cool
SeanAnderson超过 2 年前
A bit unrelated, but I misread the business name repeatedly. I read it as &quot;Time Train&quot; and it took concerted effort to see it as &quot;Time Retain.&quot;<p>Just some food for thought. Good luck with the launch :)
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