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How do you track how many hours you actually study or work each week?

I've tried a bunch of systems over the years. Pomodoro apps, spreadsheets,
notes app etc. None of them stuck perfectly.

Curious what people here actually use day to day - not what you plan to
use, but what you're actually doing right now to track real hours spent.

Apps, pen and paper, nothing at all - all valid. What's your system?

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u/Fun_Personality4067 — 12 days ago
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What is the one question you will ask to know the direction?

You come across a fork in the road. To your left is Truth-Town, where everyone tells the truth, and to your right is Liar-Town, where everyone lies. You need to go to Truth-Town, but you don't know which way it is. There is a resident from one of the villages at the fork. You can ask only one question. What should you ask?
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u/Fun_Personality4067 — 10 days ago
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I lost 6 months of focus tracking data. Built my own app after that.

I wanted to track how much time I spend on different things - deep work, reading, gym, app-development etc. Started with apps like Forest, Flow, Be Focused. They were fine at first.

But a few things started bothering me:

  • The forced breaks. If I'm in the middle of something and 40 minutes hits, the app wants me to stop. I'm not done. I don't want a break right now. But if I ignore it, the whole tracking goes off.
  • You also can't pause in some of these apps. Like if someone calls you or you need to step away for 5 minutes - you either let the timer run or you lose the session.
  • Then there's the gamification. Streaks, badges, growing trees. I get why people like it but it stressed me out more than it helped. Missing a day felt like failing.
  • And categories. Most apps either don't have them or make them complicated.

So I uninstalled everything and just used Apple's stopwatch. Start it, do the work, pause when done, open Notes and write "Deep Work - 52 mins". Ugly system but it worked.

Until I lost the notes. 6 months of data, gone.

That's when I decided to just build what I actually wanted. Something between a stopwatch and a proper tracker. You can do timed sessions with optional breaks, or just hit start with no duration and end it when you feel done - it counts up and logs everything automatically (including partial sessions). Simple categories. No gamification. Pause works.

I know apps like this exist. But I've always wanted to build something of my own, and this felt like the right place to start - a problem I actually had, solved exactly the way I wanted it. Small app, but it's mine. Just open the website, https://focussharp.app/app, start the timer.

Also building a native Apple Watch app next. Most apps treat the watch as a remote control for the phone and the sync is unreliable. Want a proper play button on the watch that works independently.

Stack: Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind, Supabase, Vercel.

Free to use, no account needed to start.

→ https://focussharp.app

Anyone else go through the "I'll just use the stopwatch" phase before building something?

u/Fun_Personality4067 — 2 months ago