Running your week

Estimate it, block it, run the clock.

Put a number on a task, put it in the week, then run the timer against it. Afterwards you know what the work cost, rather than what you meant it to cost.

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How it works

  1. Say how long you think it will take

    A number on the task, before you start. It is a guess, and the whole point is to have made it out loud.

  2. Put it in the week

    The estimate becomes a real block on the calendar, which is what stops the day filling in around it.

  3. Run the clock

    Start the session, work, stop it. The window holds its grip while the timer runs, so a stray click does not end the session.

Actual against estimate, every time

The comparison is the product. One session tells you nothing; twenty tell you that you are reliably out by half on one particular kind of work.

The block is a real event

It lands on the calendar you actually read, so the time is defended from the outside as well as from you.

The task list is on every plan

Estimates, blocks and the timer are all in Free. Free holds five tasks open at a time; finishing or archiving one frees its slot, and nothing resets monthly.

Hours grouped the way a report wants them

Time lands against categories, so where the quarter went is a question with an answer rather than a reconstruction.

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