Automatic Mac time tracker, break timer, and lid-down keeper in one menu bar pill. 1 Hz sampling to a local SQLite file. No cloud, no account, no telemetry. https://gettimex.app/blog Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT en-us Timex was the tracker that refused to score you. 1.2.0 ships a Focus Score anyway — but you write the rubric, it runs on your Mac, and nobody sells the number back to you. https://gettimex.app/blog/timex-1-2-0-focus-score-you-own https://gettimex.app/blog/timex-1-2-0-focus-score-you-own Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Don Karter I asked Claude Code to refactor a service. Half an hour later I was on Twitter. The tracker caught me. Here's how Timex sees the developer workflow — IDE, terminal, AI tools, browser, chat — and what the data tells you about your actual day. https://gettimex.app/blog/time-tracker-for-mac-developers https://gettimex.app/blog/time-tracker-for-mac-developers Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Don Karter Wall-clock vs compute time, what Timex sees when Ollama spends three hours generating tokens, and how the SQLite file plus clamshell mode let you reconstruct exactly when your model finished — without trusting your memory. https://gettimex.app/blog/tracking-time-llm-ml-mac https://gettimex.app/blog/tracking-time-llm-ml-mac Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Don Karter A dock app demands attention. A menu bar app sits where you already look. The design choices behind the Timex pill: what we put in, what we left out, and why every pixel had to defend itself. https://gettimex.app/blog/menu-bar-time-tracker-mac-design https://gettimex.app/blog/menu-bar-time-tracker-mac-design Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Don Karter What 1 Hz sampling actually captures, how Timex writes app focus, window titles, and browser tabs into a local SQLite file, and why every manual timer experiment ends in reconstructed-from-memory data by Wednesday. https://gettimex.app/blog/automatic-time-tracker-no-manual-timers https://gettimex.app/blog/automatic-time-tracker-no-manual-timers Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Don Karter Pomodoro chopped up my best focus blocks for two years. Here's what a break timer should actually do, and the seven exercise types we ship in Timex. https://gettimex.app/blog/break-timer-mac-stretches https://gettimex.app/blog/break-timer-mac-stretches Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Don Karter Two features shipped in this release. Both come from the same insight: the app was mine until you installed it, and after that, it's yours. https://gettimex.app/blog/timex-1-1-0-five-languages-zip-export https://gettimex.app/blog/timex-1-1-0-five-languages-zip-export Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Don Karter Five-year math on every major time tracker, why subscriptions fit the web era, and why a Mac app on your laptop is the wrong product to charge monthly. https://gettimex.app/blog/mac-time-tracker-without-subscription https://gettimex.app/blog/mac-time-tracker-without-subscription Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Don Karter How macOS handles closed-lid sleep, why local LLMs need the Mac awake, and the simplest way to keep both happy — without buying yet another menu bar app. https://gettimex.app/blog/clamshell-llm-keep-mac-awake https://gettimex.app/blog/clamshell-llm-keep-mac-awake Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Don Karter Why I started Timex: a manifesto for local-first, automatic activity tracking — and the tradeoffs of skipping the cloud and the manual stopwatch. https://gettimex.app/blog/time-tracker-without-tracking-you https://gettimex.app/blog/time-tracker-without-tracking-you Sun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Don Karter Where your activity goes, how to back it up, how to verify Timex never phones home, and what it costs to skip the cloud — without taking our word for it. https://gettimex.app/blog/your-data-your-file https://gettimex.app/blog/your-data-your-file Sat, 02 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Don Karter