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Comment · 1 month ago
OP here. I just released version 1.2 which is based on the feedback in this thread. It brings better scaling of fonts and the chart, which leads to better support for smaller devices. Also included are fixes to the widget and live activity renderings (one of which is a workaround of a confirmed iOS bug). Finally, the redundant “live” pill is dropped. Enjoy the update!
Comment · 1 month ago
That sounds interesting and worth a look. Although my experience with such cross platform bindings is that they tend to be leaky especially around system-dependent things like alarms and connectivity. But I’ll give it a try when I have a few hours to spend.
Comment · 1 month ago
Fonts and scaling are fixed with 1.2 released now. Live badge is gone too. I didn’t touch the colours for now.
Comment · 1 month ago
Thank you, glad you like it.
Comment · 1 month ago
Great, yes, feel free.

I just noticed that one screen is missing on the website: the one for logging a past session (positive, when you forgot to start the timer, and negative when you forgot to stop it). I’ll add that tonight on the website.

Comment · 2 months ago
Yes, it’s the first big image below the intro text on the website. You may need to wait a moment for it to auto-play. It is a self-served video file, no YT embed.
Comment · 2 months ago
The app is made in Swift and relies heavily on Watch Connectivity and AlarmKit (among others when you take the widgets and Live Activity into account, which may be omitted). I assume, none of those maps obviously to Android SDKs.

And in my experience, Claude's first results are fine for a preview, but less so for a reliable product. You can get there, but only if you can follow or even guide the engineering and make the right decisions and tradeoffs along the way. I would definitely need to learn Android to work with Claude.

Don't get me wrong, but I can't allocate that time atm. And I don't think I'm the best person to do it.

Comment · 2 months ago
Thank you!

Android: not yet, and not from me. But stay tuned; given the interest this saw today, I hope someone with Android skills (that I'm lacking) will jump in.

Comment · 2 months ago
Thanks for asking! I do agree that would be useful, but haven't looked into how sync could possibly work while keeping my claims and principles of "fully local" up. I will definitely look into it.
Comment · 2 months ago
I will definitely look into these improvements, especially the fonts and the "live" badge. For the colors, I'm unsure; I played around a lot with those already and quite used to them by now, but who knows. Thank you for your detailed feedback and the specific suggestions!
Comment · 2 months ago
Yay, someone mentioned the name. As a non-native speaker, I wasn't sure whether the ambiguity really works - glad to hear it does, at least for one other person.

Actually, there is no limit on how much you allocate, even 25h works (yes, might be considered a bug). But that's not the idea. The app is meant to help balance things that pull you in and eat your time without you noticing against those that want you to come and get them actively and intentionally and would never call for you.

Edit: ... and those things usually sum up to much less than 24h, because sleep is in neither category (at least for me); I mean, it does pull you in, but it also lets you go when it's time. :-)

Comment · 2 months ago
Makes sense, thank you for taking the time to describe it. I will consider adding something that covers this need.
Comment · 2 months ago
Thank you!

There is no such feature currently. The way I use it is that I simply ignore it on weekends.

What behaviour would you expect from a weekend mode?

Comment · 2 months ago
Thank you for giving it a try! I look forward to your impressions and ideas.
Comment · 2 months ago
Thank you for sharing your experience.

I kept OwnTime strictly separate from todos. There are so many great apps for that. I would consider linking priorities into external todo apps, e.g. if it would be possible to deep link into a certain group of todos in the app of your choice. So you could go OwnTime -> priority -> switch to todos associated with that priority.

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