Timex — Where did the day go? Now you know.

Second-by-second

Captures the day

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On your Mac, yours

120 s idle gate

Honest about idle

The problem with most Mac time trackers

You don't need a coach.
You need an honest log.

Timex's stance

Automatic, second-by-second

Drag on the timeline. Get the truth.

Open the lid and the tracker is already running. Every minute of every day is drawn as a stacked bar in per-app category colors. Drag onto a slice and the totals below filter to that window. Click a bar to isolate one app. Click empty space to clear.

• No manual timer to start, no project to pick, no forgetting — the loop just runs
• Second-by-second precision so quick app switches actually show up
• Hover anywhere → tooltip with the exact app, window title, URL and clock range

Selected 14m 22s

App Octoweb

Window timex-web — Hero.svelte

Zoom out to the week

See the week, not just the day.

Pick Last 7, This month or any range and every day becomes a stacked bar in your category colors, with a dashed line at your daily average. Hover a day for its total and Focus Score. Click it and the 24-hour timeline for that day opens underneath — week to day to minute, no menus.

• One bar per day, stacked by category — the heavy days and the quiet ones are obvious at a glance
• Under the total: how this range compares with the same span before it — "1h 20m more than the previous 7 days" — as plain text, never a red number
• Page week by week or month by month with ⌘← / ⌘→, and the same drag, click and right-click rules still apply once you drill in

Thu 3 Sep · 7h 12m · Focus 71 1h 20m more than the previous 7 days

A score you write yourself

A focus score, on your terms.

Every app and website rolls up into a category, and every category carries a weight you set — from −100% (waste) to +100% (deep focus). Timex weights your day by your own numbers into one 0–100 score, at the top of Today and in the menu bar. No cloud, no algorithm, no verdict — just your rubric, totalled. 50 is neutral.

• Website rules cover subdomains and split a single browser: github.com is focus, youtube.com is waste — and a keyword like Jira in a window title can override the app, because you said so
• Tune every weight, add your own categories, right-click any app to recategorize — your history re-scores live
• Computed on your Mac from data that never leaves it — a lens you can ignore — or, if you ask, one daily digest and per-category limits as plain macOS notifications. No streak, no nag, no email.

Development 2h 41m Productivity 1h 33m Communication 1h 08m Entertainment 41m

Same browser. One site is focus, one is waste — because you said so.

A budget, not a diagnosis

See what demanding work you have left.

Energy is a 0–100 estimate of how much demanding work is left today. It counts the cognitive load of your categories, calls, passive screen time and the current stretch. It is an allowance built from visible rules, not a health measurement, and Timex cannot tell reading from waiting.

• Four-hour daily capacity by default, adjustable from two to six; category load is Light, Moderate or High
• Calls always count as High, passive screen time counts at half, and time away eases stretch fatigue without refilling the day
• Log a Walk, Workout, Nap or Rest from an away slot; over-budget minutes carry into the next days and fade

1h 30m of demanding work left · on calls 35m · this stretch 48 min

Counts what it can't see

Calls, videos and time away — kept honest.

Idle detection used to drop a one-hour call after two quiet minutes. Now audio and mic activity in the app in front keep the clock running. And when you've been away, Timex offers the gap back as a manual entry instead of pretending it never happened.

• Audio or mic activity in the frontmost app keeps calls and videos counting through quiet stretches
• After 5+ minutes away, an away card lets you add the gap as time — or dismiss it
• Add manual entries with a category for meetings, calls and offline work

Away 25 min · 10:05–10:30 Add time…

Manual · Client call · Communication · 30m

Track only what you mean to

Your rules for what gets recorded.

Automatic doesn't have to mean everything, all the time. Exclude apps you never want in the log, skip private browser windows where the browser exposes them, and set a weekly schedule so Timex records only when you mean it to.

• Exclude any app from tracking
• Private Chromium and Firefox windows are skipped; Safari does not expose a private-window marker
• Set a weekly schedule; the menu bar shows “Outside tracking hours” when the clock is off

Ignore private browser windows

Take a real break

A break that does what it says.

When the timer fires, Timex shows a full-screen card deck: hydration, mindfulness, and stretches you can actually do at your desk. Tap "Did it" or "Skip" on each. The countdown lifts only when you answer them.

• Real exercises with photographs and short, evidence-based instructions
• Three categories — Hydration (cyan), Mindfulness (coral), Body (amber)
• Pauses when you're idle so a long meeting doesn't get unfairly chopped up

Stretch, breathe, look away — Timex unlocks once the timer ends.

Stay-awake mode

One toggle. Long jobs survive.

Flip Stay Awake on and Timex holds a kernel idle-sleep assertion (the same one behind caffeinate -i) until you flip it off. Your downloads finish, your Ollama / LM Studio inference keeps running, and Timex keeps logging — even when you walk away.

• Persists across app relaunches — toggle once and forget. Timex re-engages on every launch, including auto-launch at login
• Display still sleeps and the screen still locks — only system idle-sleep is held off, so battery + privacy stay sane
• Plug in + close the lid → clamshell mode works. On battery + lid closed, macOS force-sleeps regardless (kernel limitation, no app can override that)

caffeinate -i Same kernel idle-sleep assertion as this CLI, with a menu bar pill so you cannot forget. The display still sleeps, the screen still locks — only system idle-sleep is held off.

More than a time tracker

Three things.
One menu bar.

The three Mac tools that always end up next to each other in the menu bar — the tracker, the break nudger, and the wake-keeper — now share one slot, one SQLite file, one pause button, and one privacy posture.

Data location ~/Library/Application Support/io.muvon.timex/

Network sockets opened 0

Telemetry endpoints 0

Account required none — there isn't an account system

Export Settings → Export → CSV — every row, every time

Verify it yourself block timex with Little Snitch — nothing stops working

No. Timex never sends activity data over an outgoing network connection. Your data lives in a single file at ~/Library/Application Support/io.muvon.timex/ and stays there. No analytics, no telemetry, no account. Block its outgoing traffic with Little Snitch or your firewall and watch it fall completely silent. The MCP server is local too, and only a client you explicitly connect can read it.