Brian Bailey

April 11, 2024

Leave room

HEY Calendar has a feature called Time Tracking. It's one of those things that once you have it, you wonder why every calendar app doesn't. What better place to track time?

Today we shipped a handful of improvements that make it that much nicer. One change is when you look at a category, we total up the number of hours for you. That revealed that I've used my standing desk for 83 hours this year!

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A feature that's perfect for client work and billable hours is also perfect for helping me remember to use my standing desk once a day. 

Another fun use is when you're putting in time to get better at writing, guitar, or anything else. It feels great to see you reached 10 hours last week. There's even a notes field to capture what song you practiced or which chapter you edited (or yes, what the client call was about.)

So many possibilities from something as simple as Start → Stop → Save. Imagine if every session had a field called "Company/Client". Would that be handy sometimes? Sure. And every time you tracked meditating or drawing, you'd feel like you were using it wrong.

The smaller something is, the more room it leaves for you to make it yours.

About Brian Bailey

Head of Product Strategy at 37signals, the friendly people behind Basecamp, HEY, and ONCE. Find me elsewhere at bb.place and @bb.