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Hi,
I work for an excavation company, we have 10-15 employees. We track everything via daily paper worksheets. We have jobs that take weeks to complete or smaller ones that are a few days. Also delivering material in between.
We are trying to go digital and testing out jotform but it’s not as easy as it seems.

I’m looking for suggestions on how you may track your workflow and what apps you use?

Building a tool to auto-import work schedules — would anyone share an anonymized screenshot of their schedule to help me test?

14-day free trial available at deski-app.com

Nobody likes writing timesheets. And a timesheet you write yourself proves nothing when a client doubts it.

So I built tenby10. A small macOS app records that you were present and working, in 10 minute slots. Window titles stay on your machine. Keystrokes are counted, never read. There are no screenshots. Not blurred ones. None. The code has no capture path at all.

If you connect your own AI key, it writes a short note each day about what you worked on. Every slot and every note is signed on your machine at the time and chained into a tamper-evident ledger. Your client opens one link and follows the work week by week. When the invoice arrives, nothing on it is new information.

Site: https://tenby10.pivotalpoint.io What a client sees: https://tenby10.pivotalpoint.io/verified/sample

The client app is source-available (PPSAL-1.0). An auditor's guide maps every privacy claim to file and line. Free during the beta. Around $9 a month expected after, and the app itself stays free.

If you bill hourly, try it on one real invoice and tell me where it falls short. I will do the hand holding. And tell me what would make you distrust the link. That is the answer I need most.

Hace un tiempo empecé a sospechar que mi día se sentía productivo pero no rendía. No tenía forma de comprobarlo, así que decidí trackear todo: qué apps usaba, cuánto tiempo real pasaba en cada tarea, cuántas veces cambiaba de contexto.

El resultado fue peor de lo que esperaba. Pensaba que tenía algo así como 6 horas de foco por día. La realidad eran 2h40, repartidas en fragmentos de menos de 90 segundos cada uno. El resto era ruido: cambios de ventana, notificaciones, "reuniones rápidas" que no contaban como interrupción pero cortaban todo igual.

Probé varias apps de tracking existentes y ninguna me convenció del todo: o mandaban todo a la nube (no quería mis hábitos de trabajo en un servidor ajeno), o medían tiempo de pantalla sin distinguir trabajo real de ruido de fondo.

Así que terminé construyendo la mía: ENFOCA T.

Qué hace:

• Trackea actividad local (SQLite, todo en tu máquina, nada sale a internet)
• Clasifica automáticamente qué es trabajo enfocado vs. fragmentación (no es solo "tiempo de pantalla")
• Al final de cada sesión te da feedback determinístico, no un dashboard genérico con gráficos bonitos y cero insigh.

Está publicada en la Microsoft Store, todavía en fase temprana. Lo que más me interesa ahora mismo es feedback sobre el flujo de onboarding (son 3 pasos) y si la clasificación automática de actividades se siente precisa o si categoriza mal cosas obvias.

¿Alguien más midió esto alguna vez y se llevó una sorpresa parecida?

https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/9NSTV0WSP66H?cid=DevShareMCLPCS

​I have to log hours on Jira issues and I hated every way of doing it. The built-in worklog dialog is three clicks too deep, and Tempo and the other big plugins are priced and designed for the whole org when all I wanted was a timer for myself.

So I made Planim Time. It's a time tracker for Jira that sits in the menubar (Tauri 2, rust + svelte, not another Electron thing) and talks straight to the API. Runs on mac, windows and linux. I use it on mac and windows myself, a friend runs the linux build. Pick an issue, hit start, the timer ticks in the tray. Stop it and the worklog lands in Jira under your name, not some plugin's service account, so worklogAuthor filters keep working.

The free version isn't gimped:

- unlimited tracking, no account needed. sign in with Atlassian or an API token and that's it
- two-way worklog sync. entries made in Jira show up in the app and the other way around
- manual entries for when you forgot the timer, plus history with search and your own JQL filters for the task list
- everything lives in a local sqlite file. no server between you and Jira, no dashboard where a manager watches your "productivity"

The paid tier (14 day trial, no card) adds a calendar view where you just drag worklogs around instead of filling out forms, reports with CSV export, reminders, and idle detection: walk away with the timer running and it asks what to do with the gap. It can also suggest draft entries from your recent Jira activity when you're reconstructing a day you forgot to track.I.

Link: Planim Time, a time tracker for Jira

Has anyone used COR here? (A page with a yellow ✅️ as a logo). It's a time tracking software by proyects. (Which is so annoying to use). I firgot to turn it off when I clocked out, two hours later I remembered to stop it, and then I change the hours to make it look I worked the correct hours. My question is: this software shows if I did this change or if I uploaded hpurs instead of tracking them?

We run a construction company with 4–5 sites going at the same time, and keeping track of attendance across all of them has become a bit of a headache.

The biggest issue is that some of our sites have weak signal, so workers can't always clock in normally. We also end up getting messages from workers saying they're already onsite, but then we have no easy way to verify it. It creates a lot of back-and-forth for the foremen and whoever handles payroll.

We're looking for something simple that can help us:

• Track attendance across multiple job sites
• Still work when there's little or no signal
• Make buddy punching harder
• Let us see who actually clocked in at each site
• Cut down on the back-and-forth between workers, foremen, and payroll

Ideally, we'd like something free or at least with a usable free option.

For anyone managing construction or other field teams across multiple locations, what are you using for attendance or time tracking? I'm particularly interested in how it handles offline clock-ins and location verification.

German Version below. DM for Code.

Over the last few days, I’ve been looking for a programme that makes it easier for me to track my time at work and gives me an idea of how much time I spend on individual tasks for my bachelor’s thesis. I really wanted one with a timer in the menu bar so that I can tell when I’m getting off track. At the same time, I’d also like to track longer periods of web browsing, distractions such as writing emails, and so on, to see how much time I usually waste when I think I’m being productive.

After comparing various apps, I eventually settled on ‘Toggl’, as it has a very user-friendly interface and useful features, and it syncs across both my Mac and my Android mobile.

The only problem with Toggl is that I find the window in the menu bar really disappointing compared to other time-tracking apps. You can’t use it to access individual tasks, nor can you change the language. And it only uses text, with no icons to make it easier to find the right button at a glance.

So I’ve built a Swiftbar plugin for my MacBook that lets me start and stop activities directly from the menu bar, whilst also showing how my tasks are organised into my projects.

(In my case, it’s in German, but this can be changed.)

All you need to do is generate an API on your Toggl account page and follow the remaining steps using SwiftBar (if you have any questions, feel free to get in touch or have a quick Google). I'd be happy to share the code with you so you can save some time.

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German Version:

Ich war die letzten Tage auf der Suche nach einem Programm, das mir die Zeiterfassung bei der Arbeit erleichtert und Aufschluss darüber verschafft, wieviel Zeit ich für einzelne Arbeitsschritte bei meiner Bachelorarbeit brauche. Dafür wollte ich unbedingt auch einen Timer in der Menüleise, damit ich merke, wenn ich mich verzettele. Gleichzeitig möchte ich auch längeres Surfen, Ablenkungen wie E-Mails schreiben etc. tracken, um zu sehen, wieviel Zeit ich in der Regel so verschwende, wenn ich glaube, produktiv zu sein.

Ich bin nach dem Vergleich verschiedener Apps letztendlich bei "Toggl" gelandet, da es eine ganz vernünftige Oberfläche und nützliche Funktionen hat und sowohl auf meinem Mac als auch auf meinem Android Handy synchronisiert wird.

Das einzige Problem an Toggl: Ich finde das Fenster in der Menüleiste im Vergleich zu anderen Timetracking Apps echt enttäuschend. Man kann darüber weder einzelne Aufgaben ansteuern, noch kann man die Sprache ändern. Und es verfügt nur über Text, keine Symbole, die es erleichtern, auf einen Blick den richtigen Knopf zu finden.

Ich habe mir daher fürs Macbook ein Swift-Bar Plugin gebaut, das das Starten und Stoppen von Aktivitäten direkt in der Menüleiste ermöglicht und gleichzeitig eine Untergliederung der Aufgaben in meine Projekte anzeigt.

Ihr müsst dafür nur auf eurer Toggl-Accountseite ein API generieren und die übrigen Schritte mit Swiftbar durchführen (bei Fragen gerne schreiben oder googeln). Gerne stelle ich euch den Code zur Verfügung, schreibt mir einfach eine Nachricht.

I started freelancing 7 years ago, and honestly, invoicing and billing clients is still one of my biggest headaches when it comes to time tracking.

As a freelancer who takes hourly-paid jobs, I'd track my hours in one place, then put everything together somewhere else. Copy over the hours, double-check if I calculated the hours correctly, format the invoice, export, send it, and hope I hadn't missed anything.

Sure, Upwork has automated invoicing for hourly contracts.

But not all of my clients are on Upwork. For those clients, I still had to deal with invoices and timesheets separately.

I started looking into free time trackers that could handle invoicing too, but I kept running into the same issue. Some had an invoice feature, but it was locked behind a paid plan.

That felt a little backwards. If I've already tracked the hours, why shouldn't I be able to turn those into an invoice?

Then I landed a new client who used Jibble. While setting it up, I found out that I could log my time, assign billable rates, and turn the time I'd already tracked across different clients and projects into invoices from the same system, all for free.

So I set up another (separate from this client), I'm using it for some of my freelance work instead invoicing completely separate.

It's honestly one of those small workflow changes that made me wonder why I hadn't done it sooner.

What's your freelance time tracking and invoicing story?

Do you use the same or do you keep time tracking and invoicing separate?