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Time, blocked

Desktop plans the day; the phone tracks it as it happens — in blocks, on my own 6am-to-6am clock.

the week you plan is the day you live

Every time-tracker I tried assumed the same person: someone whose day starts at 9, runs in clean hour-long focus, and feels bad when a timer runs out. That's not me. My day turns over at 6am, not midnight, so that's where the app's day starts too. I work in fifteen-minute blocks, and half the time a block is split — half-focused, two things at once, on a train somewhere — so the app tracks halves, and works out how much I actually focused versus how much I clawed back by doing two useful things at once.

The part I care about most: nothing finishes because the time ran out. The hours are just a guess so things fit. A task is done when I say it's done — never because a bar filled up. No streaks either; a streak only punishes me for one bad day. It counts what I did, not what I broke.

It started as the digital version of a whiteboard I kept crawling back to — so when I sit down I get a plan instead of a panic.

Nothing finishes because the time ran out. It's done when I say it's done.

Where you come in

This one runs my days — which means it gets the design care of something I'm forced to live inside. Every default in it is a small argument with how these apps think a day should go. If the usual planners never fit you either, you already know why. And if you want tools designed off how people actually behave instead of how a template says they should — this is the working sample.

Where it's going

Toward being the one place I run my life from instead of my head — everything that matters, at the right weight, so picking what to do next stops being the hard part.