Time Tracker Devlog #1 — Building the Ultimate Productivity & Time Tracking App with Flutter
🧭 Time-Tracker Devlog #1 — Building the Ultimate Productivity & Time Tracking App with Flutter
Over the past few days, I started working on an idea that’s been floating in my head for a while — a productivity app that truly understands how your time flows.
Unlike traditional to-do apps, this one won’t just store your tasks — it will track your daily activities, visualize how your time is spent, and help you improve with actionable suggestions and insights based on real productivity philosophies.
This is meant to be the ultimate To-Do app, designed to make you more aware, organized, and in control of your time.
🧩 The Core Idea
At its heart, the app’s goal is simple:
Help users see how their day is truly spent — and guide them to spend it better.
Users will be able to:
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Log and categorize their daily activities.
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Instantly visualize how much time they spend sleeping, working, relaxing, or doing chores.
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Understand their day through clear proportions — for example:
💤 2/5 of the day sleeping
🧹 1/5 on daily chores
🎮 1/5 on entertainment
💼 1/5 being productive
At a glance, the user can see exactly where their time goes — and where it should go.
🧠 Intelligent Insights
The app won’t stop at tracking. It will also provide personalized suggestions to improve productivity, referencing famous time management philosophies like the Pomodoro Technique, Eisenhower Matrix, Pareto Principle (80/20 rule), and others.
Users will even have a Learning Section built right into the app — a space where they can explore these philosophies and learn how to practically apply them within the app’s tools.
🧱 Two To-Do Modes
I’m designing two distinct modes for managing tasks:
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Simple To-Do Mode – a straightforward daily checklist.
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Project Mode – where you can:
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Create a project with a name and deadline.
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Break it into smaller steps.
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Assign a completion rate to each step (totaling 100%).
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As steps are completed, the app dynamically predicts project completion time.
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If it detects that you’re likely to miss a deadline, the app will calculate how much extra work per day is needed to stay on track — making it feel like a real productivity assistant rather than a simple task list.
📊 Dashboard Concepts
I’ve planned two key visuals for the dashboard, both focusing on making time tangible.
⏳ 1. The Hourglass — “See Your Day Flow”
The hourglass represents your day as a flow of time:
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The top half represents tomorrow’s time — the future yet to come.
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The bottom half represents today’s time already spent.
Each color in the bottom half corresponds to an activity category (sleep, work, entertainment, etc.).
With just one glance, users can tell:
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How much of today is already gone.
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How much is left.
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What they’ve done so far.
There will also be a timelapse feature that visually replays how the day flowed — a beautiful way to see time pass.
📈 2. The Productivity Chart — “Compare Your Progress”
The productivity chart lets users compare their performance across time periods.
For example, when viewing a weekly overview:
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The bold line shows this week’s productivity trend.
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The dotted line shows last week’s trend.
This visual contrast immediately reveals whether the user’s productivity is improving or slipping — an elegant way to motivate consistency.
🎨 Current Progress
I began the project with the authentication page — mainly because I wanted to establish the visual style early on.
Right now, I’m experimenting with layouts, typography, and color palettes to make the UI feel:
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Professional.
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Minimal.
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Relevant to the theme of time and focus.
At first, I explored different design styles — gradients, neumorphism, and even glassmorphism — but ultimately decided to go with a minimal flat style for now.
This approach helps me keep the focus on structure and functionality while I discover the app’s true personality. Once that identity becomes clearer, I’ll design a theme that fully matches the app’s tone and purpose — something that feels calm, professional, and productivity-driven.
⚙️ Next Steps
Over the next few devlogs, I plan to:
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Finalize the UI style and component system.
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Implement the core activity tracking logic.
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Start prototyping the dashboard and data visualization widgets.
💭 Final Thoughts
This project isn’t just a to-do app — it’s a visual journal of how your life flows through time.
By combining activity tracking, productivity analytics, and timeless philosophies, I want to make an app that doesn’t just manage your day — it transforms it.
Stay tuned for more updates as the design takes shape. 🚀
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