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Michael Jelly

Magicflow 2.0 — 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. 🤖 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
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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? 🆕 🆕 🆕

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 → 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: 🧑‍💻 Window titles and URLs (the sensitive stuff) don't leave your computer by default, we have 0 access to them 🔒🔒Your data is double-encrypted in Firebase, once by us and once by Google 🔒🔒

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
Maker
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!
Brittany Joiner {Britt the Builder}
Looks cool! I'm queueing this to try out... i want a better way to quantify where my time is going without having to remember to start something for tracking.
Michael Jelly
Maker
@britt_joiner thanks so much Brittany, hope we can be that for you! Hit me up with any feedback you have!
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
Maker
@temirlan a wisened time tracker spies a promising young upstart. there's something special in this one, it would seem
Harry Dry
Congrats Mr Jelly! Love the vibrancy of the site. Primary colours and capital letters. Getting s*** done is such a huge problem in 2022. Will give this a go. Bonne chance!
Michael Jelly
Maker
@harrydry Thank you very much Mr Dry! Feel free to let a few friends hear the good news!
Jeremy Nagel
Congrats on the launch! What makes it better than Timing for Mac or Rescue Time? I personally don't think AI can do what I need because I use the same website (e.g. github) for multiple different projects. With Timing for Mac, I can set up rules (if it's github.com/DayJob, then it belongs to Coding project in day job vs github.com/sideproject)
Michael Jelly
Maker
@jeremy_nazgul Hey Jeremy! You're so right that it doesn't do everything out of the box, especially project detection. The AI actually generates rules for our regex-categorisation engine, which you can override! What makes it better is the user interface and session recaps/coaching in my opinion. I had tried both, and they both left me unsatisfied and feeling like they weren't really changing my daily habits. I've actually seen you around the internet on github I think, maybe in the ActivityWatch github issues or something? Would love to have a call and chat!
Jeremy Nagel
@michaeljelly ah that makes sense. Call would be fun. Do any of these times work? https://calendly.com/jeremynagel If not, perhaps you could email through your booking link to jeremy@focusbear.io
Jamie Stirrat
Congrats Mikey! Been using it for months now & it’s only got better and better. Best productivity tracker on the market!
johnny makes ⚡️
congrats on launching! it’s obvious a lot of thought and care have gone into this product and it really shows 👏
Michael Jelly
Maker
@johnny_makes Thanks so much, it really has!
I've been on the lookout for such a tool for a long time now, and I'm glad to have finally found one! Congratulations on the big launch team @Magicflow! :) All the best with your launch!
Michael Jelly
Maker
@magicflow @vaishali_rastogi Appreciate this Vaishali! Hope it's everything you were looking for1
Marat
Looks interesting but is there a free trial? I'd like to use it and decide if I like it before paying for it.
Michael Jelly
Maker
@outofelement Give it a try, I've never denied anyone a refund who wanted it.
Marat
@michaeljelly That's cool but it needs to have a free trial like any other app. Shouldn't be asking people to pay immediately upon sign-up. They need to be able to explore and decide whether it's worth paying for. Not saying anything controversial here. It's just a standard way of doing this. I'm sure you're a nice guy and would refund but would you send money to someone you've never met without even seeing the app on the promise that they would refund if you don't like it? :)
Marat
@michaeljelly Since my follow-up comment was left without a reply I assume that asking to at least see the product before paying for it was too much to ask for. Was my request unreasonable? Do you personally pay for products you haven't had a chance to use? I'm really curious to check it out and will give you a detailed review but if you won't add a free trial I'm going to have to uninstall it. Pity.
Sacha
My only hesitance in upvoting this is giving away the massive alpha I've gotten from MagicFlow since signing up as a beta tester. Couldn't be a bigger fan of this product and the team that has been GRINDING on this like no other. Congrats on the launch! Question: am I able to track my performance over time? i.e. If I wanted to see how my focus scores have improved over time. I'd like to be able to correlate this with the other optimizations I am testing.
Michael Jelly
Maker
@sachaker Yes you can indeed! If you select the month view and go to the Productivity tab, you can see your productivity over the whole month. Annual view coming soon pending some database query optimisations!
Michael Jelly
Maker
@sachaker Appreciate you giving up your alpha like this <3
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 🔥
Michael Jelly
Maker
@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!
Mishka
As somebody who cannot focus, Magicflow has been a Godsend. Exactly what I needed to minimize distractions and help me get work done. Cannot recommend this enough!
Michael Jelly
Maker
@thiscodeworks So happy Magicflow helps you like it helps me haha, I'm not the only one!
Helena Merk
Wow. I've been watching @michaeljelly build and iterate this for a good while now and so amazed at how far it's come. Congrats on the launch!!
Michael Jelly
Maker
@helenamerk Good things take time. So happy to be out in the world.
Nader Khalil
I really need this. Excited to try it out. I find myself so easily distracted between all my context shifts
Michael Jelly
Maker
@naderlikeladder Let's go, super excited to have you here!
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
Maker
@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!
Abhishek Bhargava
Congrats Michael! I've been using Magicflow for over a year now and absolutely love it. Makes me so much more productive on the off-days :)
Michael Jelly
Maker
@abhishek_bhargava Thanks Abhishek! That's exactly what it's for
Jad Bourji
I swear I was just thinking of searching for something like this a few days ago to track my time (and was worried about all the search I was gonna make) and bam! :D nice product
Michael Jelly
Maker
@thisisjad amazing to hear that! You're in the right place. Let me know how it goes, would love your feedback!
Colm Hayden
Have tried the v1 and the visuals for helping understand how you work throughout the day. As someone who struggles hard to get into deep work, this seems like a great product for me!
Michael Jelly
Maker
@colm_hayden I think we all struggle, or at least I do. Appreciate the comment, we'll keep working hard!
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
Maker
@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!
David Glass
Big fan of Magicflow! Been amazing to see the developments and work from Mike. The lil coaching summary at the end of each session is what I find most useful for knowing how well I did and then iterating my habits over time. The first step for me is noticing exactly where I'm going astray, without that pinpointing I don't really know what my issue is and struggle to correct for it
Michael Jelly
Maker
@david_glass Thanks so much David! The coaching summary was actually the killer feature, just took me a couple months to notice! So glad you love it as much as I do.