Log where your hours go

The problem

You know you were busy. You don't know on what. Time-tracking apps solve that for freelancers billing clients, and bring a whole project system with them.

How Hours works

Make a few categories: Deep work, Meetings, Admin, whatever your days are made of. Press play on one. Press play on another and the first stops. One clock runs at a time, on purpose.

Forgot to press play? Add the time by hand, for today or yesterday. The donut shows the share for today, this week or this month, and clicking a category filters the daily bars underneath.

Double-click a name to rename it. Right-click to archive a category you no longer use; its time stays in history so old weeks still add up.

Tips

• Keep it to five or six categories. The donut is for a picture of the day, not a ledger.
• Pomodoro blocks are logged under Timers, not here. Use Hours for the shape of the day and Timers for the focus inside it.

Questions

Can I export the data for invoicing?

Not in this version. Hours is for your own picture of where time goes, not for billing.

Can two categories run at the same time?

No. Starting one stops the other, so the totals always add up to the hours you were actually at the Mac.

What happens to time when I archive a category?

It stays in history. Archiving only removes the category from the play list.

Goes well with

• Timers

  Pomodoro, countdown and stopwatch, without a window for a number.

• Screen Time

  Apps, durations and an hourly chart. Nothing to grant.