Show HN: Nestly – A simple nested time tracker
ajusa.github.ioHello HN!
I'm sharing a small project I built with two other students. We built it in three weeks for a UI/design class back in April of this year. Nestly is a nested time tracker. It's similar to Dynalist and Workflowy in the sense that you can nest items as much as you want, but in this case each item is something that can be individually time tracked. It also supports rudimentary tagging (for cross item tracking) and time breakdown graphs.
Sites like toggl only supported two (maybe three?) layers of tracking, which always put me into decision paralysis - was I organizing my time categories in the right way? Would I need to revamp the whole system in the future as my roles and responsibilities changed? Infinite nesting solves that problem (though it doesn't work for everyone).
Note that the project was primarily built for a class - we don't anticipate working on it more or adding a bunch of new features. It's in a "finished" state.
The site was built with Tachyons, using the Nord color scheme, and VueJS. There is no backend - all data is persisted locally on the machine itself. I'm happy to answer any questions about the tech stack or anything else!
Are people using time trackers that are web sites, not native apps?
I kinda expected something apart from web browser to track my browsing activity, apart from other things. I don't know much about time tracking, though. Hope others more familiar with the niche will comment.
I've actually built something similar for myself using the browser. It was easy to build, as I am very well versed in that toolkit.
But that's where it became a chore. Having it go down with or being managed by tab snoozing in your main browser is not ideal. Having your dev browser open at all times to have it running is not ideal. Having an instance of Chromium or what have you to box the app in it is also not ideal.
And then extending it, doing stats on it, anything really is; you guessed it, far from ideal.
That's why I'm now toying with this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29124874
Maybe have a look at that and tell me what you think, ok.
Do you have any recommendations for good macOS time trackers? I've tried Clockify but the desktop app is extremely lacking and doesn't feel native at all. I've ended up just keeping a browser tab pinned.
Try toggl. The free plan is good for little projects and still allows a lot of organizing.
Great work!
Is this open source?
+1 is it?
Lawyers contacting you in 3 2 1.
Not a good idea to be named one-letter off the name of a huge disliked corporation.
I thought about this, but they should be good as long as they avoid selling food.
Haha, this is just a school project so I don't think they'll go after me. We struggled with coming up with a name though, just picked one so that we could submit it. If there was a ton of feedback or interest we'd probably rename, but I consider this to be a small finished utility.
Nice work, simple and easy to use!
simply innovatevely namely! creatively all aroundly the wordly
edit - it's a joke (ly) for this weird cultural phenomena to name everything like this :D