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Single-click Android app for time tracking sought.

  • 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.

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    How would the app know when to start counting?

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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?

therubettes

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

cardioid

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'.

therubettes

In the end I found this app: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.drtimer.lite 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.

therubettes

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