Daily Momentum

A quiet record of where your time goes.

One tap says what you are doing. That is the whole thing. Everything else — the timeline, the totals, the week against the week before — is worked out from it.

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No account to make, and nothing to install unless you want to.

A day, once it has recorded itself

Twenty-four hours, in proportion. No timers were started or stopped — each block is simply the time between one tap and the next.

How it works

  1. Tap what you are doing

    A grid of large buttons, usable one-handed and without looking hard at the screen. There is no start button and no stop button, because a tap is both: starting one thing is what ends the last one.

  2. Forget about it

    Nothing is asked of you between taps. If you forget for an afternoon, the gap is offered back to you later as a question rather than left as a hole, and you can name it or leave it unnamed.

  3. See where it actually went

    The day as a single strip, the week against the week before, and patterns drawn from what you recorded. Observations, not advice — nothing here tells you that you should have done otherwise.

Nothing leaves this device

Not as a setting you have to find, and not as a policy that could be revised. There is no server to send anything to.

The rest of it

It takes about a minute to start

One question about the shape of your days, and then you are recording. There is nothing to set up first.

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