Hey everyone, I am the person behind everyhour. I am here all day and on Twitter there after. I have recorded every hour of every day for three years - do you have any questions?
❓ Why I built everyhour:
If someone asked you to do something, you would likely do it for them. Motivation isn’t even a thought.
But when you give yourself a task, it’s much harder. There is no accountability to yourself. Suddenly, your targets fall, you neglect the things that make you happy and you burn out.
As work-life blends more and more with home-life, we need some sort of accountability for ourselves and all our tasks, and this is why I really believe in tracking things (like Strava does for exercise, calorie trackers for diets, and so on).
I had tried a variety of tools (automated or otherwise) and found a host of issues:
🤬 Too Complex: While mobile apps may be available, actual logging of time can be challenging (typically requiring multiple inputs of start times and end times and more — all of which are not relevant to my use-case).
😰Pressure: When using Toggl, I felt constantly under a timer even when I couldn’t see it.
🥸Too Specific: when it told me I had done 12 hours 42 minutes and 25 seconds of Exercise so far, I really don’t care.
everyhour solves these.
📕 The story:
I started time tracking with a spreadsheet as I didn’t understand how people flippantly said they worked 60 hour weeks. I then started tracking my time outside work and found it gave me real targets and motivation. Then I built everyhour to make the tracking easier.
With it, I have :
🏃 completed an Ironman 70.3,
👾 learnt to code,
👋 quit two jobs,
🛖 become nomadic,
But more importantly:
🏠 doubled the time I spend with my partner
↘️ reduced the hours doing work I hated by 70%
🔮 The future:
everyhour is completely free right now, though I do have plans to monetise it in the future. I want to validate that this helps others too.
@acgoff Congratulations on the launch!
everyhour could be addressing the need-gap 'Getting things done at individual level' posted on my problem validation platform - https://needgap.com/problems/30-... .
You're welcomed to explain how you are solving that problem with everyhour, So those who need it can find it easily.
@acgoff Hey Alex, needgap is a problem validation platform and those who might need your product might visit the thread I mentioned above as your product seems to be addressing that problem.
I have been asked via twitter DMs, how did I decide on the categories of time (every pot/category you create needs a type). The types I settled on are 🛏 Just Living, 👨👩👧👧 Social, 🏆 Hobbies, 🏢 Work, 🏃 Exercise, 📺 Leisure, 🧹 Admin and Chores, ❤️ Self Care.
...and it took me ages to decide on them! Do you think they make sense as the most abstract categorisations of what we do?
@dagorenouf Thanks! Honestly it is momentum and also part of my reward now. In the same way Strava is a reward for doing exercise, recording time into my exercise pots, or project pots or family and friends pots is a reward - and I have targets on all of them.
Plus the app is on my phones home page!
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