Timetracker

After graduating from college, I wanted to create a new small side project to fill my newfound spare time. I didn't want to get invested in an overly ambitious project; I needed something manageable but still purposeful.

Tracking Personal Time

I had so much free time after graduation because I was waiting to start my job as a Front End Software Engineer at Squarespace in New York. So, I mainly passed the time watching TV and videos online. But what used to be an excitement to finally get to relax and catch up on missed TV turned into a severe amount of sluggishness and guilt from laziness.

While I was on YouTube, I came across two vidoes. One by Kurtis Baute and another by Nathaniel Drew.

Though these two videos had two very different motives of tracking personal time, they both had similar benefits of having a better sense of how they were spending their time.

These videos inspired me to start tracking my own time. So, instead of downloading another app, I decided to take this opportunity to get back into mobile development.

Design

If there's one thing that I've learned as a software engineer over the years it that designing a rought version of the final product uncovers possible pitfalls during development. Which, over time, reduces tech debt, bugs, and general loss of time.

The first version of the application was simple: allow the user to track their time by creating an event that falls under a pre-defined category with a description attached.