HOURLY JOURNAL FOR STUDENTS
See where your study hours really go
A timetable tells you what was planned. Hourly Journal helps you remember what happened: the lecture that ran over, the library session that clicked, the break that lasted longer, and the study time that actually landed.
Free to start on iOS, Android and the web. Journaling, tags, moods and insights stay free forever.
Turn a busy term into something you can read back
You studied all day and can't list what you covered.
Eight hours at the same desk, and the only thing you could report back is that you were there and you're tired. The hours were real; the record of them isn't.
“I work better at night” is a claim you've never checked.
It might be true. It might be a story that survives because nothing ever wrote down what the 9 AM attempts looked like. An hourly log settles it either way.
Procrastination never lands on any study planner.
The stretch between “I'll start after this video” and actually starting doesn't appear in your timetable, your reading list, or your notes — so it never gets counted.
HOW THE HOURS GET LOGGED
One term week, hour by hour
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Tag the lecture, the library and the drift
Class, Study, Social, Procrastination, Sleep. The honesty is the whole mechanism: log the scroll break as Procrastination rather than rounding it up to Study.
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Read the timeline before you rebuild the timetable
After a few days the per-tag timeline shows which hours Study actually landed in. Those may not be the hours you'd have guessed, which is the useful part.
- 3
Log a normal week and an exam week the same way
Then compare the two Study totals. Some students find the gap smaller than it felt; some find it much larger. Either result is information you didn't have.
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Use the streak as a record, not a scoreboard
The streak counts the days you logged, nothing else. A broken one costs you nothing — the entries you already wrote stay exactly where they are.
SUGGESTED TAGS
Tags that cover a student's day
These five cover most timetables — lectures, the library, the group chat, and the hour that got away. Swap in your own module names if you'd rather.
A DAY IN THE LIFE
What a revision day actually contained
One logged Wednesday in week eight. Note that the best-focus hour and the planned-focus hour aren't the same hour.
HOW IT WORKS
The parts of the app that survive a term
- Log the 25 minutes you actually revised, not the whole hourSplit an hour into 15-minute slots for free, or set a custom start and end with Pro — useful when a study block doesn't line up with the clock.
- Check whether you really do study better at 9 PMThe per-tag timeline shows which hours of the day your Study entries fell in, across a week, a month or your own date range.
- Keep logging in a basement library with no signalEntries save to the device the moment you write them and upload later, so a dead zone doesn't cost you the afternoon.
The core journal is free forever on iOS, Android and the web. See what Premium adds.
Student questions, answered
Will hourly reminders be annoying during exams?
You choose the window the nudge runs in, and the interval it uses, in Journal Settings — free, so you can pull the whole day's reminders back from an exam slot and put them back after.
Is it free for students?
The core app — hourly logging, tags, moods, insights and offline mode — is free forever, and there's no student email to verify. It does need an account so your entries can sync.
Does it work if my timetable changes every term?
Yes, there's nothing to reconfigure. You tag whichever hour you're in, so a new timetable, a reading week or a placement doesn't break anything.
Begin with the next hour of the term
A new timetable does not need a new system. Log the next hour and read the week back when it suits you.
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