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Time tracking

Raised as a usability problem by 13 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2013–2025), in 11 threads.

People raised many different problems with Time tracking, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 14 complaints

Timer briefly shows negative time (00:00:-1) when starting a new track2025-05-06
Time recording UI is unintuitive and lags 1-2 seconds per action2024-06-17
Other time trackers were too complicated, targeted whole teams, and were a usability nightmare2024-05-17
No feedback when project is missing or created, so users create duplicate projects2023-09-18
Data entry in time tracking, TODO and journaling systems is too inefficient2020-07-19
Can't figure out how to delete a logged test entry2020-04-01
Users cannot discover that swiping timers deletes or copies them2020-04-01
Forced to reset password almost every time the software is opened2019-12-14
Staff must log in and out at the door, tracked to the second, which they found terrible2017-12-04
Commenter dislikes the UI/UX of Time Doctor, which is their team's current tool2014-08-01
Console flashes errors during API key entry and the command palette is replaced by a window that instantly closes2013-07-15
Logging prompt pops up repeatedly until Sublime crashes2013-07-15
In-file search is very slow to respond2013-07-15
Logging time requires too many clicks across different elements, adding friction2013-01-18