everyhour - Improve your life balance: what gets measured, gets managed

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.

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?

This looks exactly like what I need, great work. I'm impressed that you've tracked every hour of your last three years 🤯

Sounds like a very useful app, I am eager to try it out. As for the categories, I think you did a great job of finding general ones which apply to a lot of schedules.

In recent times I have struggled to strike a balance and reduce distractions by all the devices that I often forget to prioritize my true goals and people that I love. This app is the perfect solution in my opinion...love the fact that I can analyze and track my progress in a very user friendly way.

Very timely product. Great work, Alex!

Everyhour seems like a perfect app to track my goals and prioritize tasks in a very smooth and undaunting way. Really like the fact that it doesn't have a timer and actually simplifies the tasks. Analyzing features gives a sense of accountability and would definitely encourage me to strive towards balance. Great app!

Hey Alex, thats a cool app. Wish you a good launch day :)!