Timing
2019.3Discover how you spend time on your Mac.
Overview
Timing is the best way to keep track of the time you spend with your Mac. Find out where your time goes -- without ever having to start a timer again! Timing automatically tracks which documents you are editing, which applications you use, and the domains of the websites you visit. You'll never have to worry about forgetting to start or stop a timer again -- there are none! It's all done in the background! After tracking, just drag and drop activities into projects. Some general categories like "Web Browsing", "Office", and "Games" have already been prepared for you, but you can customize them any way you like!
Review this week's activities with just one click! Sophisticated graphs show you how you spent your time each day and which projects consumed most of your time.
Some of the applications supported by Timing:
- Safari
- Chrome and Chromium
- Opera
- Preview
- Photoshop (and probably the rest of the Adobe Creative Suite)
- Acorn
- iWork
- MS Office
- LibreOffice
- Evernote
- TeXShop
- Finder
- Terminal
- GitX
- Xcode (3 and 4)
- Coda
- TextWrangler and BBEdit
- Smultron and Fraise
- Kod
- MacVim and AquaMacs
- TextEdit
- Dashcode
- QuickTime Player
- VLC Player
What's new in Timing
- More Detailed Tracking: Added or improved path extraction for the following apps:
- Mail.app (now tracking emails being written, too)
- Safari 13 (private window detection)
- Notes.app
- Slack
- Notion
- Spark by Readdle
- DEVONthink
- JetBrains apps (e.g. IntelliJ, PhpStorm, etc.)
Please note: Detailed tracking support is very specific to the current version of the mentioned apps. In particular, any update to the tracked apps might break Timing’s support for them. We will try to update Timing for any such changes, but can not guarantee that this will always be possible - Device Rules: You can now create rules that apply only to specific devices. If you want to see all app usage recorded on one particular device, you can now create a filter for that. Have a look at our rules documentation to learn more
- Application Title Rules: You can now create rules that match application titles instead of specific applications — useful if you are e.g. using several different instances of the same app
- Data Sanitization: Timing will now remove redundant information like the application name from window titles. This makes the data shown more meaningful and reduces clutter
- This might affect some of your existing rules; let us know if that is the case
- Idle-Time Detection: Time spent in Zoom.app (e.g. on video calls) will now never be considered idle time
Smaller quality of life improvements in Timing 2019.3:
Improvement:
- Further improved compatibility with macOS 10.15 "Catalina"
- Timing will now warn when trying to create keyword rules containing characters that would cause the rule to never match
- Improved performance in a few places
- Made the duration figures in chart popovers more precise
- Task suggestion buttons in the timeline can now be tabbed through with the keyboard if you have enabled "Full Keyboard Access" in System Preferences. In addition, you can now select the project list to move between projects using the keyboard (macOS 10.13 and later only)
Bugfix:
- Fixed a scrollbar issue with the timeline
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Daniel here, the developer of Timing. Just a quick heads-up that you can use Timing indefinitely after purchasing it. The $49 upgrade after one year is optional and only required to get new updates to Timing and use our sync service for another year. Developing the app on an ongoing basis and keeping our sync service running requires a significant investment from our side, and those paid upgrades ensure that we can "keep the lights running".
This also benefits you, the customer, in the long term: The alternative would be to purchase an app now that would be discontinued after a few years because further development could not be funded, which would not be in your interest, either. And that outcome is exactly what our pricing model avoids.
Best Regards,
Daniel Alm