At first, I thought this would be something awesome to work with…. Don’t get me wrong: It’s a beautiful, and well-constructed app with no bugs thus far that I could see, but as I went through this, I noticed a couple of things:1) Timer Syncing: When you activate a timer on a device, say, like the iPhone, I like that it starts and shows a Focus screen. It also initiates a Live Activity on the Apple Watch. However, this timer does not synchronize towards the other devices, such as the Mac and iPad, nor does a Live Activity initiate on the iPad. When using timer-based apps, at the very least, all the devices need to be showing the timer and Live Activity simultaneously when using the app to focus on a task or event….2) Insights: This is incredibly confusing. First off, when you activate your iCloud account to show your existing calendar events, it shows those correctly; however, when you spend time on an event or reminder, those events/reminders automatically sync over to your existing calendar. So, for instance: I have a work event that goes from 12:00pm - 1:00pm. In the Insights area, it shows 1 hour correctly. However, when you actually activate a timer pertaining to that particular event, Calflow automatically shows ADDITIONAL time spent on the event, so in other words, when I spend 20 minutes on an existing 1 hour event, the Insights area shows that I actually spent 1 hour and 20 minutes on the event, when in actuality, I spent only 20 minutes on it… That is incredibly annoying and confusing when it comes to accurately tracking time, well, over time…3) When I look at the Tags, that makes everything even more confusing. I don’t see how the Tags area within the Insights tab can be all the more useful when the Calendar area is already showing confusing information….4) Apple Watch Track Timers: These don’t show up in the Mac, iPhone and iPad apps for accessibility purposes. In other words, you can only access the track timers, such as "Eat," or "Go Shopping" ONLY on the Watch app, which basically makes them useless elsewhere. If I wanted to start this timer on the Mac, where is it?…All in all: I can’t use this app due to the above dynamics in play. The makers of Calflow need redesign the app to separate the Calendar events from the Timers. In other words, 1) I should see my existing calendar events as usual in the "Morning," "Afternoon," and "Evening" areas of the Today tab; 2) I still should see the existing Reminders below them as well (albeit with manual order initiated if possible!!!), however, when it comes to spending time on things, the list of those items need to be shown ONLY in the Insights area. The Calendar event timeframes should NOT be shown in the Insights area unless the user has spent time on them (makes sense???)…Aside from that, the app shows immense promise. It just needs to be thought through some more, and the above dynamics are things that I highly recommend so that the app can be much more useful. But as of now, I can’t use it in its current state.
