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Thank you for your kind feedback!

Yes, I'd feel honored if the concept gained traction.

That's the attitude. :-) Thank you!

Btw, good luck with Fable working with Watch Connectivity and AlarmKit. I mean, it does try hard. ;-)

https://www.dejal.com/timeout/ does this with a lot of flexibility.

I make my screen fade when I’ve worked for 90 min, with a call to action to take a quick walk. Also, every 20 minutes to look 20 feet away for 20 seconds.

Thank you! I appreciate it!

Yes, some type of regular notification similar to the one-time wrap-up notification is something I would definetely consider. This overlaps with the Pomodoro-type of apps, which is why it wasn't top priority for me so far.

Could you explain your use case? When do you prefer counting up over counting down and why?

You could set up a priority with the minimum budget (15m) and log everything as "over work". Of course, that will lack visibility in the chart.

Thank you for sharing your experience.

I kept OwnTime strictly separate from todos. There are so many great apps for that. I would consider linking priorities into external todo apps, e.g. if it would be possible to deep link into a certain group of todos in the app of your choice. So you could go OwnTime -> priority -> switch to todos associated with that priority.

Yay, someone mentioned the name. As a non-native speaker, I wasn't sure whether the ambiguity really works - glad to hear it does, at least for one other person.

Actually, there is no limit on how much you allocate, even 25h works (yes, might be considered a bug). But that's not the idea. The app is meant to help balance things that pull you in and eat your time without you noticing against those that want you to come and get them actively and intentionally and would never call for you.

Edit: ... and those things usually sum up to much less than 24h, because sleep is in neither category (at least for me); I mean, it does pull you in, but it also lets you go when it's time. :-)

Thank you for your questions!

"Still yours" shows the total time available over all priorities.

The different ring segments represent the time allocated (available=light and used=dark) of each priority in the color you assigned to that priorty.

Thank you for taking the time and posting this. This is not an extremely improbable direction. I will consider it.

Thank you for giving it a try! I look forward to your impressions and ideas.

There are two types of notification: 1) When budget runs out (available time goes to zero), there is always an alarm, like for the typical system timer. 2) Optionally, you can enable a notification to nudge you slightly ealier, e.g. 10 minutes. This allows you to prepare to wrap up what you are doing so you can actually stop (e.g. in a "close the lid" sense) when time is up.

Thank you!

There is no such feature currently. The way I use it is that I simply ignore it on weekends.

What behaviour would you expect from a weekend mode?

Thank you for your feedback anyway - I hope, someone else picks it up!

Thanks for taking the time to point out the impression. I have rewritten it more casually.

Color scheme and typography also scream Claude. But nice idea.

If you wait until tomorrow, someone will have sloppy-copied this and posted here, I am sure of it.

There is no web app I'm afraid.

Thank you! Yes, the alarm was the single most important requirement for me.

Thank you, glad you like it.

Unfortunately, I have no such plans and no OwnTime for that ;)

I guess, if there is interest, it will be possible to use the website as a guidance for whoever or whatever may implement an Android version. I’d feel honored.

Thank you for your interest. I'm not sure exactly what you mean by time set.

You can add as many priorities as you want.

You can do and track "over work" as well. It is displayed as negative budget, but not indicated in the chart.

Thank you.

I know, and I didn't need a Pomodoro timer.

What Pomodoro doesn't show you and is at the heart of this app: the things you neglect, front and center, not in the shape of todos (and bad feelings) but it the shape of your personal priorities.

Thank you, I appreciate your feedback.

Thank you!

Android: not yet, and not from me. But stay tuned; given the interest this saw today, I hope someone with Android skills (that I'm lacking) will jump in.

Thanks for asking! I do agree that would be useful, but haven't looked into how sync could possibly work while keeping my claims and principles of "fully local" up. I will definitely look into it.