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Tracking Reminders

Timesheet learns your usual working rhythm and gives you a nudge when a day looks like a working day but no timer is running. It is the counterpart to the Forgotten Timer: that one catches a timer you left running, this one catches the timer you never started.

How it works​

Timesheet looks at your recent tracking history and builds a picture per weekday — when you typically start, and how long a typical day lasts. Reminders are only scheduled where that picture is clear enough:

  • A weekday needs a minimum number of observed working days before anything is predicted. A day you rarely work stays quiet.
  • Your start times on that weekday have to be reasonably consistent. If they are all over the place, a "you usually start now" reminder would be noise, so it is not sent.

Reminders for the next few days are prepared in advance, so they still arrive if you do not open the app for a while.

The four nudges​

Morning miss — your usual start time on this weekday has passed and no timer is running.

Daily gap — later into what is normally a working day, still nothing tracked.

Partial day — you tracked something, but noticeably less than a typical day at that point. This one only applies if your typical day is reasonably long, and it is cancelled automatically as soon as today's tracking reaches a normal share of it.

Arrival at work — you entered a known work location but did not start tracking. If arriving starts a timer automatically through an automation, this nudge is cancelled and never appears.

Configuring​

Open Settings › Notifications › Track reminders:

SettingWhat it does
Track reminderTurns the reminders on. "Remind me to start tracking when I usually work but haven't started a timer."
Remind afterHow long to wait past your usual start time — Right away, or a delay in minutes
Catch partial days"Also remind me later in the day if I've tracked less than usual."

A grace period is worth setting if your start time moves around by a few minutes — it avoids a reminder arriving in the same minute you were about to start anyway.

Notification actions​

Each reminder carries a snooze action, so you can push it back without leaving what you are doing. Starting a timer clears the pending reminders for that day automatically — you never get nudged about something you already did.

When no reminder appears​

  • Not enough history yet. Timesheet needs to have seen you work on that weekday a few times before it predicts anything. New accounts stay quiet at first — this is expected.
  • Your start times vary too much. Deliberate, not a defect: an unreliable prediction would produce reminders at the wrong moment.
  • Notifications are off. Check iOS Settings › Notifications › Timesheet.
  • You already tracked. Reminders for a day are dropped as soon as that day looks covered.

Privacy​

The work pattern is derived from your own tracking data on your device. Nothing extra is collected for it, and no location is stored for the arrival nudge beyond the work locations you configured yourself for automations.

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