Single-click Android app for time tracking sought.
August 24, 2011 1:43 AM   Subscribe

Single-click Android app for time tracking sought.

I am looking for an Android App to track what I do with my time. I would set up activities like sleep, cook, commute, work, exercise and log time against them. I want to be able to log the activities in a single click when the activity concludes. So when I get up I click 'Sleep', the app logs this as the end of the 'Sleep' activity. Just before I hop in my car to drive to work I click 'Breakfast', the app then calculates the length of time I was having breakfast. So I drive to work and when I get there I click 'Commute' etc etc. You could describe it as a one-click retrospective time tracking app.

I have looked at a number of project tracking apps all of which lack the key picece of functionality I seek i.e. I would like to log the time with a single-click.
posted by therubettes to Computers & Internet (4 answers total) 3 users marked this as a favorite
 
Response by poster: How would the app know when to start counting?

Good question. I guess it would have to be activated the first time it was used (like a zero hour set or something like that). The idea is that the app is running 24 hours a day.

So Say it starts a timer when you activate it for the first time, it started tracking the time but not against any specific activity, then in one click you say I have been gardening up until now. So the app records ok, this guy has been gardening for the last 8 hours. The timer then starts again from zero and I begin a different activity - say knitting. And say I have been active knitting for 2 hours, when I am done I click 'Knitting', the app records that I have been knitting for past 2 hours...etc..

Am I making sense?
posted by therubettes at 6:33 AM on August 24, 2011


What about when you haven't been sleeping, cooking, commuting, working, or exercising? Or gardening? Or knitting?
posted by cardioid at 8:16 AM on August 24, 2011


Response by poster: What about when you haven't been sleeping, cooking, commuting, working, or exercising? Or gardening? Or knitting?

Well I will always be doing something, even if its nothing. I could have a category for 'Relaxing' or 'Nothing'.
posted by therubettes at 8:41 AM on August 24, 2011


Best answer: In the end I found this app: Dr. Timer Jr which pretty much does what I want except you start the timer with the event. Anyway it has a nice widget which makes it simple to use.
posted by therubettes at 2:56 PM on August 28, 2011


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