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Hours 2.0 — The time tracker you will actually use. Now on the web.
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@tribaling We still have a lot of work to do but our team is intensely focused on the habit problem. Right now here are a few ways it helps you build a habit:
1) It makes it really easy to switch tasks throughout the day. Most time tracking services require you to either type or select the tasks you are working on. Hours assumes you generally work on the same things day to day and gives you a running list that you can add and subtract from. That makes switching tasks a one click deal. And we are working hard to make that one tap easily accessible — you can do it from your computer, from your lock screen (with notification center widget), from your home screen (3D touch), from the iPhone app itself, or from your Apple Watch.
2) The timeline makes tracking time as you go realistic because you can actually account for each hour in your day. If you missed an hour, you clearly see that on the timeline and can quickly fill it in. If you accidentally had a timer running through lunch, you quickly see that from the timeline and can just drag the end time back 30 minutes. The timeline changes the way you think about time tracking from at the end of the day to moment by moment.
3) Reminders: the app knows when you are supposed to be working and reminds you to start or stop timers based on that. We will be working a lot more to make reminders smarter and smarter.
Those are a few things that are in there today — more to come.
Hey guys, wow! I woke up this morning to Hours being on the front page of Product Hunt. Thanks everyone! We were planning to officially launch this afternoon but I guess this is it!
We have a lot of work to do and some things may not work correctly but most stuff should work pretty well. I've been learning the hard way that web launches are a whole different animal than app launches. I'll be watching this thread so please feel free to post your thoughts, feedback, and ideas!
@jerols congratulations on an amazing release! Hours has set the bar yet again for time tracking apps! Great work.
Loved it on iOs - but I switched to Android and now I miss it. When will you release on Android? Congrats on the web release.
@guygunaratne Hopefully this launch will give us the kind of revenues we need to start working on an Android app — we definitely think it is important. In the mean time, the timers part of the web app is responsive so you could use that for now.
I really don't like it when there are no prices on the homepage and you have to sign up to see them. Why don't you show the pricing on your website?
The key difference between Hours and most time tracking apps is that we are focused on tracking time *as you go through the day* as opposed to later. This focus drives features like persistent timers (you don't need to tell us what you work on every day, just start and stop timers on your common tasks) and the visual timeline (see a visual accounting to quickly identify mistakes and edit your time by dragging it around on the timeline).
The goal with these and other features is to turn time tracking as you go into a habit, which means less time trying to calculate your time at the end of the week and more accurate time tracking for companies.
Just posted a Medium article about why time tracking is something everyone should do and how Hours makes tracking time as you go realistic: https://medium.com/@jerols/hours...
Would love your thoughts.
Love the design and interface, very intuitive and clean. Are there plans to add the ability to calculate the costs for a task (for example, adding an hourly rate for a project and then the timer can show the cost for that task as it increases?) That would be fantastic. Keep up the good work! :-)
@philmatthews Hey Phil, that is definitely something we are planning to work on.
I have used Hours 2.0 during its testing, and I couldn't praise it more. It became one of the most vital tools within my day, I use it to control the time I spent on work projects and family tasks/chores. The reports give me a fantastic overview of where do I spent most of my time, allowing me to shift my focus as I see fit. It really is perfect to understand my day-to-day activities both professionally and personally. Huge thumbs-up.
@jerols I see it now. Thanks for pointing that out. Indeed, it's hard to find. Not sure even if new users will notice it easily there. Thanks for correcting me.
@gochanago Hey Matthew, I'm sorry you feel that way but I think this is a misunderstanding. We decided that we would not be taking anything away from users and CSV / PDF export is still in the app.
Perhaps you missed it since we moved it from the top-right to be a button on the left of each client on the reports screen. This way you can skip the step of choosing the client you want to export and just tap the export button right next to them. We have been getting other users who did not notice the new location of the export option, though, so in hindsight we should have communicated the change in placement of export options better and I apologize for that.
Beautiful app! Yesterday I signed up for 4-5 different time tracking apps since I'm looking for a replacement for our current app. This looks better than everything I have tried so far! Too bad it doesn't have a osx menu bar app
I'm not a heavy user, and only use time tracking on some projects. I often start the tracker and forget about it. And then I get an email telling me I have a tracker running 24 hours later. The only thing that has worked in the past is a menu bar app extension which is always there showing me a tracker is running and asks me if I want to continue tracking after being idle for 15 minutes.
@emilsundberg Great to hear Emil! An OS X app is one of our most requested features and one of our top priorities after this launch.
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