p/magicflow
Track your productivity, context switching and deep work
Michael Jelly
Magicflow 2.0 β€” Deep work tracker for builders, makers and founders
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A time tracker focused on deep work, designed from the ground up for builders, makers & founders, to help you avoid context switching. πŸ€– Real-time coaching from an AI work coach 🦾 No more fiddling to categorise your work, we do it with ChatGPT + embeddings
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Michael Jelly
Hey Product Hunt, I'm Mike, founder and CEO of Magicflow! Today I'm launching Magicflow 2.0, a time tracker redesigned from the ground up to help you do more deep work. Deep work is the most valuable time we spend working, it's when we make progress on the hardest problems that drive our companies, side projects and research forwards. But the default modern work day is full of interruptions, meetings and context switching, from Slack notifications while Coding to Emails flooding in while you're in Figma. We desperately need tools that help us manage our precious attention. In 2021, I tried every time tracker out there. But none of them made my work life easier, or more focused. Time tracking has historically been a clunky experience full of manual recategorising, complicated interfaces and a lack of focus on what's important. We've spent the last year iterating with early users, shipping features and refining the interface down to the simplest, most powerful views, helping you understand how you're doing and how you can do better.

So, what’s new? πŸ†• πŸ†• πŸ†•

It's been a busy year! We rebuilt the interface from the ground up, released the app on Windows, and even invented a new UX in the time-tracking space, of post-session coaching using AI to help keep you on track (screenshot 2).

What Magicflow is now

Magicflow is now a next-generation time tracker, subtly infused with AI in the places that matter, focused on helping you control your time like never before, and do more valuable work. It's built for people who care about their work and how well they achieve it and want to be intentional with how they spend their time. People from startups to bigCos alike have been using Magicflow as a daily work assistant. I'm super excited for you to try it!

Core features

⏱️ Saves you time by showcasing where you're wasting it or getting distracted 🦾 Nudges you with Session Coach to help you reduce or eliminate distractions 🎨 Beautiful simple UX ✨ Frictionless β†’ AI categorisation means 95% less time spent managing your time tracker

Magicflow is built private by default

Having previously built a privacy startup, we are incredibly keen on making sure your data is safe and in your control. The big two differences here between us and our competitors are: πŸ§‘β€πŸ’» Window titles and URLs (the sensitive stuff) don't leave your computer by default, we have 0 access to them πŸ”’πŸ”’Your data is double-encrypted in Firebase, once by us and once by Google πŸ”’πŸ”’

Thanks for reading, you're what makes this launch awesome! 😻

😻 The Product Hunt community has been so supportive with everything we've previously launched, excited to embark on a brand new launch day! Try Magicflow out for yourself, leave us your thoughts, and if you're feeling majestic, why not tell a friend or two! ❀️ I'm always excited to hear from and help fellow makers, so AMA and I'll answer any questions you have!
Michael Jelly
It's been such a great launch day so far, to have heard from so many of you! Keep the comments coming, share it with your friends, let's make it a day to remember!
Tak
Great to see the progress! Epic to see this live now for all to enjoy :)
Michael Jelly
@takomborerwam Thanks Tak, it's so exciting to be out in the world!
James McKinven
Congrats on the launch, Mike! If theres anything that helps me improve my productivity, it's knowing where I'm spending my time. Love how you break it down in Magicflow πŸ”₯
Michael Jelly
@jmckinven It's the real currency of life! Appreciate the support on this day James, let me know how I can help you in the future!
Matthew Johnson
Hey congrats on the launch! What's the biggest benefit you get from Magicflow?
Michael Jelly
@mattcrail Thanks Matt! For me it's the session coaching, which helps me evaluate how I'm doing in a lightweight way several times a day, and has often saved a day from being one where you look back at the end and think: what did I even do today!
Charlie Ward
Love MagicFlow, so gassed to see this live!
Dave Jeffery
Wow, you've made a ton of progress Mike. Congrats! Time tracking is usually a chore, but the idea of Magicflow ambiently doing it in the background and AI-driven post-session coaching seems super compelling. Must check this out!
Michael Jelly
@davej Appreciate this Dave! It totally flips it from being a chore to being a frictionless value add :D glad you see what we do!
Francesco D'Alessio
Congrats on the launch, on our review list!
Michael Jelly
@francescod_ales Excited to see what you guys make! Always the best content!
alfred wahlforss
Love it!
Michael Jelly
@lurv10 even your username is lurv
Jonathan Lee
That's quite amazing. It gives me intuitive picture of how much time I've spent in each application. But moreover, how can it help me to be more focused? Like I've realized that there is a lot of switches that breaks my focus. How can it help?
Michael Jelly
@jonathan_lee1 Thanks, exactly! It helps you be more focused by giving you feedback between 5 and 10 times a day depending on how many work sessions you have. You can use that feedback to adjust how you're working for your next session or the rest of the day! There is also a session timer that tracks how focused you are while you work, and turns red if you get distracted and lose focus!
Tem Nugmanov
I've tried many a time tracker over the years and ngl this one looks the most promising. I love the focus on deep work! Obviously tracking what you do goes way beyond what you spend your time on but more so how focused you are, so I'm super excited to see how MagicFlow can help me improve!!
Michael Jelly
@temirlan a wisened time tracker spies a promising young upstart. there's something special in this one, it would seem
Ian Vanagas
Congrats on the launch!
Jason Jin
People don't actually want to track their productivity & time - they want to be more focused and productive, and do deep, meaningful work. Magicflow is the only productivity "coach" that helps you do the latter, not just the former, highly recommend!
Michael Jelly
@likeaj6 Exactly. It's not about seeing the numbers, it's about how they can help you do what matters. Thanks so much for such a thoughtful comment.
johnny makes ⚑️
congrats on launching! it’s obvious a lot of thought and care have gone into this product and it really shows πŸ‘
Michael Jelly
@johnny_makes Thanks so much, it really has!
Pete
Looks good! I like the privacy aspects as I wouldn't use something like this otherwise.
Michael Jelly
@petecodes Cheers Pete! Agree it's totally crucial. Appreciate your support
Mario Vasilescu
Got to see some of the seeds of this in the earliest days (Hey Mike!), and am extremely impressed with how far the product has come! Really excited to dive in. Mike is a super thoughtful and talented product creator, and it definitely shows in Magicflow. Great to see this rocketship taking off like this!
Michael Jelly
@1upm Thanks so much Mario, could say exactly the same about you!! Appreciate you.
MicheΓ‘l McLaughlin
Let's go!! It's focus time🫑
Michael Jelly
@micheal_mcl_ never seen a guy as focused as you with Magicflow on your shoulder!
David Lobo
Magicflow has significantly improved my productivity as a founder. 10/10 would recommend.
Michael Jelly
@djlobo Thanks so much David, so happy to hear that!
adaobi
I need this!!!
Michael Jelly
@adaobiadibe_ Just like me for real!
Kevin Ramirez
would have liked to try before i had to buy
Michael Jelly
@kevin_ramirez2 We have great options if you need help! Sorry for the extra friction, we've found users actually commit enough to use the tool properly when they pay and are much happier, so that's now our default as a pro tool to help you do more valuable work. Definitely a future plan to develop a good free tier or free trial, but it's a lot of work to maintain for a team of one!
Matan Talmi
Been waiting for something like this!
Michael Jelly
@talmixed Amazing! Send me all the feedback you can, really want to make it awesome for people like you!