HOURLY JOURNAL FOR ADHD & TIME BLINDNESS
An outside clock, once an hour
Some hours pass without announcing themselves. Hourly Journal offers a gentle reminder and a quick place to log what you were doing, so you can build a clearer record of how the day moved — one hour at a time.
Free to start on iOS, Android and the web. Journaling, tags, moods and insights stay free forever.
A small prompt when time gets away from you
You sit down for “five minutes” and it's been two hours.
Nothing about it felt like two hours. The clock is the only witness, and by the time you check it the window you needed has already closed.
An hour isn't the same size from the inside.
An absorbing hour can feel like ten minutes and a waiting hour like three. An outside cue has no opinion about how the hour felt — it just arrives.
Elaborate schedules never survive past day two.
A colour-coded planner is a lot to maintain. One notification asking one question is a smaller thing to keep up with, which is the only reason it's designed that way.
HOW THE HOURS GET LOGGED
One week with an outside clock
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Let the notification be the clock
Rather than judging when an hour has passed, you get told. That's the entire mechanism, and it's deliberately the only one.
- 2
Log what happened, not what was supposed to
If one email turned into two hours somewhere else entirely, tag it Hyperfocus and move on. The log is a record, not a scorecard, and nothing marks it wrong.
- 3
Read back where the hours went
After a few days you can look at which hours got logged as Focus and which got logged as Hyperfocus. What that means for you is yours to decide.
- 4
Give Break an actual tagged hour
A logged Break is a point where you looked at the clock on purpose. Some people find that useful as a marker between one task and the next.
SUGGESTED TAGS
Tags for hours that don't announce themselves
Two of these do most of the work: one for the hour you meant to have, one for the hour that actually ran on without you.
A DAY IN THE LIFE
A day the nudge kept catching
One person's logged day, written in their own words. Not a routine to follow and not a typical result — days vary enormously.
HOW IT WORKS
The parts of the app doing the work here
- Set the window and the interval the nudge runs onWake time, sleep time, how often it asks, and a choice of reminder sounds. It's scheduled by your phone, so it still fires in airplane mode.
- Fill in three hours you lost track of, in one actionLong-press to select the hours that went missing and write one entry across all of them.
- Answer an hour in two tapsA tag and one of four moods is a complete entry — typing is optional, every time.
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Straight answers about what this app is
Is Hourly Journal a treatment for ADHD or time blindness?
No. It is not treatment, therapy, or a diagnostic tool, and it isn't a substitute for professional support. It's an app that sends an hourly reminder and stores a short note. If you're seeking help for ADHD, speak to a qualified clinician.
Will an hourly notification feel like too much?
That depends entirely on you. You control the window it runs in and the interval, so you can start at every hour and widen it — or narrow the window — until it fits, or stop using it.
Do I have to write something meaningful every hour?
No. A single tag with no note at all is a complete entry, and skipped hours simply stay blank.
Built for flexibility, not a perfect record
Skip hours, widen the reminders, or log several hours together later. The routine stays adjustable, because a tool is only useful when it fits your life.
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