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Show HN: OwnTime – a chess clock for your day's priorities
Define a few priorities and give each a daily time budget. Only
one clock runs at a time, so starting one pauses the rest. When
a budget is spent, an alarm goes off. iPhone, Apple Watch, or
both.
The budgets are not much more than a few mutually exclusive
countdown timers. You start one when you begin working on
something and stop it when you are done, or start the next one
and let it pause the first. At midnight, everything resets.
Each device works on its own. Phone and watch keep each other
in sync when they are paired, and the watch is usually the
quicker place to glance, start, and stop.
Every action is also a Siri phrase, on iPhone and Apple Watch,
and a Shortcuts action for your automations. On Apple Watch
Ultra you can put the toggle on the Action Button.
Name a priority in the phrase, or leave it out and Siri asks.
Replace [priority] below with one of
yours, like “Deep Work”.
Stops the running session, or starts the
last priority if none is running. This is the one for
the Action Button.
There is no server and no account. Your priorities and sessions
stay on your devices. Phone and watch sync directly with each
other over Apple's WatchConnectivity, never through us and never
through the cloud. The privacy policy has
the details.
No Apple Watch required. iPhone alone, Apple
Watch alone, or both.
I didn't build any statistics into the app. Instead, one tap
exports the whole history as a plain SQLite file, the same
store the app runs on. Open it in a notebook, write your own
queries, or hand it to whatever tool you like. It is your data,
in a format that outlives the app.
Where the export goes is up to you. Once you share it, the file
is outside OwnTime and outside the privacy
policy. That is the point.