Time diary

Switch Time Entry to Meaningful before you tap the round + button. An entry goes to the side that is open, and the form offers only the topics of that side. A topic that ended up on the wrong side can be converted later, together with all its entries.

The wheels of Duration* stop at 23:55 and move in steps of five minutes, so a longer stretch goes in as two entries, while a timer keeps the exact minutes. Date* takes any earlier day and does not hold you back from a later one within the year.

No. Everything you log stays on your phone and goes into a backup like the rest of your data, as Back up your data shows.

It takes your average a day since the first entry and stretches it over the next ten years on the wasted side, or over the next year on the meaningful one. Every calendar day since that first entry counts, the empty ones too, so the figure dips on a day you log nothing and rises again with the next entry, and an entry for an earlier day stretches the whole period. Wasted on the Calculators screen can weigh an estimate against the same average of your wasted time, as Weigh an estimate against your tracked time shows.

The total is divided by every calendar day from the first entry to today, the empty days included. A topic you give forty minutes every other day comes out at about twenty minutes a day, which is closer to what it really takes out of a week.

A first entry has nothing to be compared with, and on the meaningful side that holds for the first entry of every topic. After that, the message about your average comes only when the duration of an entry has changed, so a new date, topic or note passes quietly. It can also be switched off for good with Show statistics after each entry, under Account and then Settings in the menu on the home screen.

Yes, with Total hours animation under Account and then Settings in the menu on the home screen.

The difference one entry makes to your average a day, with the entry and without it, and what that difference comes to over ten years on the wasted side or over a year on the meaningful one. On the wasted side the average covers all your wasted time together, on the meaningful side only the topic of the entry, and in both cases it is spread over every calendar day since the first entry. The details are worked out from the saved entry, so a change you have not saved yet shows up in them after Save.

An entry that Starting hours added says "This is an auto-generated time entry and cannot be edited." when you open it. It can still be deleted with the bin, and the whole stretch changes when you open Starting hours on the topic's Manage tab again and tap Replace starting hours after a new preview.

Only by restoring a backup made before you deleted it, as Restore your data from a backup shows. A deleted entry is erased from the app at once, and so are a deleted topic and every entry in it, and its timer leaves Timers the next time you open that screen. There is no archive for topics, so one you simply stop using can stay in the list with its history intact.

Most likely a filter is on, and the filter button at the top of Time Entry shows it in red. An entry the filter leaves out is missing from the totals as well. The filter of each side stays in place, even after the app is closed, until Reset, Yes and Apply clear it, and it is not part of a backup.

Only the entries that pass the filter count. The days in "days logged" run from the earliest of those entries to today, even when the period you picked ended long ago, and the average and the look ahead are worked out from these days.

The search in Filter looks only through the descriptions of the entries, whatever the case of the letters, so an entry without a description never turns up in it. A topic is picked in Topics instead, and several can be ticked at once.

Time Entry sorts only by the day an entry belongs to, newest or oldest first, and each side keeps its own order. The filter on the History tab of a topic can also group its entries by Created Date or Updated Date, under Group by.

Only one runs at a time. Starting another timer pauses the one that was running and keeps its time, and a running timer goes on counting when you leave Timers or close the app.

The length of a timed session is rounded up to whole minutes, so 24 minutes and 37 seconds become 00:25, and Edit timer time says so under Duration*. The breaks you took with the pause button do not count, and Pauses in the timer lists them.

It waits in the results of that timer, behind the button with stacked layers at the top of the timer, which turns red while something is left unsaved. Tapping the session there saves it as an entry, and a swipe lets you mark it as done without an entry, continue it or delete it.

After 12 hours the app asks whether to save the session as one entry or split it into smaller parts, and a session longer than 23:59 can only be split, into parts of up to 12:00. A session that crossed midnight gets the date of the day you tapped Complete, which you can still change before saving.

The difference lies in what you mean by the topic. Entries work the same way on both sides, and a topic goes on the side you choose when you add it. If you change your mind later, Show advanced options on the topic's Manage tab moves it to the other side together with all its entries, as Change or delete a topic shows.

The app warns you with "Topic with this name already exists." and still saves the second topic. It only checks the side you are adding to, so the same name on the wasted and the meaningful side goes through without a warning. The questions behind identify the wasted topics do not check names at all and create the second topic without a word.

The list in Topic manager keeps to names. Tap a topic to see its total at the top, every entry under History and its averages under Overview, as See how a topic adds up shows.

Yes. Entries point to their topic and keep no copy of its name, so every past entry shows the new name as soon as you save it. A timer of the topic picks the new name up the next time you open Timers.

The topic and all of its entries, the Starting hours among them, so their hours leave one side of Time Entry and Statistics and join the other. A single entry cannot change sides on its own. A quota, active days or a deadline stay with the topic, and while it is wasted they are simply out of sight until it is converted back.

Every entry of the topic, the ones from a timer and from Starting hours included, and Starting hours goes back to "Not set". The name, the note and the goals stay, and the row cannot be tapped while the topic has no entries.

The order you set in Topic Manager shows there, in the field Topic* of Log time and in the topics of the Time Entry filter. Timers keeps an order of its own, which follows the topics only when the screen first opens and is changed with its own button at the top.

A new topic joins the end of its side, however it was created. A converted topic keeps its place number, so one moved from the wasted side lands at the top of the meaningful list, and one moved the other way lands at the bottom of the wasted list. There is no sorting by name, and the order you set is part of a backup.

They are the daily average multiplied by seven and by about thirty and a half. A real week or month can hold more or less than that, and these figures spread the difference evenly over the whole time since the first entry.

It is the share of days with at least one entry among all the days since the first entry, today included, so 13 active days out of 29 make 45%. A meaningful topic can also be measured against a number of active days you plan per week or month, which you set on its Manage tab.

The cards for time goals and the deadline belong to meaningful topics, since only they can carry a quota or a deadline. A wasted topic shows its averages and how regular it has been, two cards in all.

The form for a new topic asks only for a name and a note, and the rest waits on the topic's Manage tab. Open the topic from the list in Topic manager and switch to Manage, where a meaningful topic offers Add a quota for this topic, Count how often, not just how long and Hit this by a specific date, as Set a goal for a topic shows.

A week runs from Monday to Sunday and a month is a calendar month. Only finished weeks count towards the percentage, and the week you are in shows apart as a line like "0 of 4 this week", so a quiet Monday does not pull the number down. Until the first full week with entries is over, the card says "consistency starts once your first full week is done".

Each finished week is measured against the number of days you set, and it counts for no more than that, so a week with five sessions does not make up for one with two. A week without a single entry counts as zero.

How much of the calendar time between Start date* and Deadline* has already passed and how many days are left, while the hours of the topic play no part in it. Once the deadline is behind you, Save stays grey for any change to the topic until you move the deadline or untick Hit this by a specific date.

Change the numbers on the topic's Manage tab or untick the card of the goal, then tap Save, and the cards on Overview follow the next time you open the topic. A weekly or monthly quota is a plain number of hours, so 40 hours a week is Weekly with 40 in Hours*, and hours and minutes are kept for Daily. The calculator behind Calculate weekly need only works a number out, as Work out what a goal asks of you shows, and you type the result into the field yourself.

Sum up starting hours, under the Starting hours row of the topic's Manage tab, opens Basic in a window over the topic. Give it the time the activity took a day or a week and how long you kept it up, and type the total it shows into Starting hours yourself, as See what a routine adds up to shows for the calculator.

No. Replace starting hours and Remove starting hours change only the entries the window added, and the ones you logged by hand or with a timer stay as they were. Clear history activities on the same tab works differently and removes every entry of the topic.

Yes, Add these hours writes exactly the entries of the preview. With Even the same settings always give the same entries, while Varied picks the days and the amounts anew, and Another layout shows a different arrangement of the same request before you add it. One go takes up to 10000 hours, and a single day holds at most 16.

The preview divides the hours by the days that get time, while Overview divides them by every day from the first entry to today, the weekends and the weeks after the range included.

No. Finish closes the result without creating anything, and a topic appears only when you tap Create. When the result finds that the activity sits about where it should, Create waits behind I would like to create anyway, so you can still keep an eye on it if you want to.

They only ever create a wasted one. A meaningful topic comes from the round + button on the Meaningful side of Topic Manager, and a topic that ended up on the wrong side can be moved later on its Manage tab, as Change or delete a topic shows.

No. The topic gets the activity's name and nothing else, and the answers are gone once you leave the questions. A single answer cannot be taken back either, though the round arrow at the top right and Restart start again from the first question. There are eight questions in all, and depending on your answers you see three or four of them.

Time Entry knows only the hours you log and the starting hours you add to a topic. For a rough figure without any entries, Wasted on the Calculators screen adds up a stretch of the past you choose, as Add up what a habit has taken shows, and Add hours you spent before brings such hours into the topic itself.

It is a one-time hint that shows up after about ten seconds on the screen, for as long as the help window has never been opened. The cross hides it until your next visit, and How it works opens Topic Manager Helper and switches the hint off for good, along with the red pulse on the question mark button.