Time is a limited resource - and to spend it efficiently going forward the first step is to know how you spend it right now. That's what Trac! helps you to do.
@idoshamun Thanks Ido!
It is not necessary to track all your time. One may just want to track how long they sleep, play video games or do meditation or yoga. And that's alright. The goal is to be mindful of how your time is being spent. The motivation could be either to track your entire day or just couple of specific tasks.
Another personal motivation comes from my seemingly weak memory. I often find myself searching through old messages, emails and call logs just to remember when something happened. Keeping a quick running diary through a few button clicks seemed like an easier way out than picking (or to start with - finding) a pen!
I agree that it wouldn't be easy to remember to track all your time using this app - but it will be less difficult than doing it without this or any other such app.
For this app specifically, the idea was to be able to quickly start the timer without worrying about decision making around organisation (something that I struggled with while using other time tracking apps).
I remember when many years back I downloaded Wally to keep track of my expenses. A simple no nonsense app letting me feed in my expenses with a few clicks and showing basic aggregated stats and no fancy charts and graphs. And I also remember when it was 'upgraded' to have all the frills of registering accounts and credit cards and what not. It made me realise that I wanted simple. The goal of this app is to provide that simplicity with recording time. Not sure whether it has come through or not but that's where it started from.
I know it's a long reply but thank you for engaging. Cheers!
@nsanthosh1 Thanks Santosh! The app currently is to manually track your activity. You may also add a variety of live notes to form a memory graph. Automatic integrations like health, sleep, location, app usage and others could be part of your Trac timeline in the future releases.
@nataliekarakina Thanks Natalie. To be honest I haven't used Toggl Track to draw comparisons. But the goal of this app was to allow users to start a timer without worrying too much about organisation. Also wanted to give a diary like timeline to users who always wanted to maintain a memory-diary but found it too much work traditionally.
With Trac, in addition to the daily timeline, one can also view a historical timeline of a specific task with all the notes in a single view. It is like progressively taking notes related to a task without spending any effort on the organisation at all.
Hoping it finds usefulness with the users as envisioned! Thanks.
@ken_moo Thanks Ken. Yes, currently it is mobile only. To start with I was very particular that the personal user data resides on users device only. The possibility of secure sync between platforms is open and will hopefully move towards it in the future.