Hindsight: Work Timeline

Auto time tracker & standups

Only for Mac

Free

Mac

New: a standup written for you, ready to paste into Slack. Hindsight tracks your day automatically, and your data stays on your Mac. Forget filling in timesheets from memory. Hindsight is a private time tracker for your Mac that quietly records what you work on, then turns it into a timeline, a daily standup you can paste into Slack, and weekly reviews. No manual timers. No account. Your data stays on your Mac. THE END OF "WHAT DID I DO TODAY?" - Daily: every activity is a bar at the exact time it happened, grouped by project and colored by category. - A standup written for you: what you got done, by project, with time spent and the pull requests you worked on. Edit it, then paste it into Slack. - Today: tracked time, focus, longest stretch without switching, daily goals, and unaccounted gaps at a glance. - Activity Log and Timeline with precise start times, end times, and durations. - Statistics and weekly reviews that show where the week really went. YOUR PROJECTS, YOUR RULES - Time goes to a project only when the screen shows it: one of its repositories, a file in one of its folders, or a window title with its name. - Hindsight suggests projects from what it has seen. Add the ones you want, ignore the rest. - Set daily goals and limits for any category, and get a nudge when you reach or pass them. - Pomodoro-style Focus Timer with live distraction alerts. - Export to CSV, JSON, or Markdown. CORRECT IT IN SECONDS - One Review screen for everything that needs a look. Confirm, edit, ignore, or retry, one by one or all at once. - Merge related sessions, split an interval that holds two tasks, or change many activities at once. - Sleep, idle time, and overnight gaps never count toward your totals. HONEST BY DESIGN - Every activity links back to the app and window it came from. Screenshots and text are there when you want proof. - Unclear analysis is labeled as unclear, never presented as fact. - Every total is calculated from your timeline. The AI writes the descriptions, never the numbers. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT - Prefer to stay hands-on? Add activities yourself. No permissions or AI setup needed. - Automatic tracking is opt-in and needs Screen Recording only. Hindsight never asks for Accessibility access. - Activities are stored locally and never sent to us. Private browsing windows are never recorded. - Analysis can run fully on your Mac with Apple Intelligence. If you choose your own AI provider, content goes straight from your Mac to that provider. - iCloud sync is optional and off by default. It keeps the text of your activities and standups in your own private iCloud, end-to-end encrypted. Screenshots never leave your Mac. Hindsight helps you remember your work, not judge how you spend it. You stay in control of the timeline, the evidence, and every correction.

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Your day, handed back when you need it Morning brief - Once a day, when you're back at your Mac, a notification with your last workday: what it came to, where you left off, and what's next. - Copy the standup straight from the notification, or open the brief to reopen the pull requests you had open and check any activities that need a look. A note after each call - When a call of 5 minutes or more ends, reply to the notification with what was decided. It goes under Meetings in the day's standup and is copied with it. - Hindsight still never records audio. Calls are named after your calendar event when calendar context is on. Evening wrap-up - Shortly before you usually stop, reply with what to pick up tomorrow. It becomes a Next item and opens tomorrow's brief. - Your usual stop is learned from your last two weeks. Nothing to set up. Teach once - Move an activity to a project or change its category, and Hindsight offers the rule that would have got it right: the folder or repository its windows showed, or its app. Add it, and the next one is right on its own. - A category rule you write now outranks the AI's reading of the screen. A checklist for your first week - Today shows the setup steps that turn on project time, Done lines from your pull requests, named meetings and the notifications above. Timesheets and weekly exports - Hours per project per day, as a PDF to send or a CSV to sum, from Daily, Weekly Review and Export Data. - Export a weekly review as a PDF, or every activity of the week as a CSV. Reviews saved earlier export too. Your other displays, as context - With more than one display, turn on Settings > General > Recording > Capture other displays. The displays you aren't working on are captured about once a minute, so a call or a log beside your work shows up in its summary. - The display you work on is still the only one that's timed. Excluded apps, private windows and notifications are left out of the image, and faces in calls are blurred. It is off by default. More privacy while you sign in - Hindsight no longer takes a screenshot while a password field is focused in your browser, such as Safari, Chrome, Brave, Arc, Edge or Firefox. The time still counts toward what you were doing. All three notifications can be turned off in Settings > General > Notifications.

The developer, Dhrumil Patel, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .

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    Seller
    Dhrumil Patel
    Size
    6 MB
    Category
    Productivity
    Compatibility
    Requires macOS 26.0 or later.
    • Mac
      Requires macOS 26.0 or later.
    Languages
    English
    Age Rating
    4+
    Copyright
    © 2026 Dhrumil Patel