Feature Request

One of the problems I had with other timers was... forgetting to start the timer! This happened first thing in the morning or after a non-Break interlude. I forget to start Session too. The workaround on Session is to manually enter missed time, but it's a bother. Other timers had solutions. RescueTime, for example, determined what I was working on, based on my assignment of apps to projects, then clocked the time automatically. Daily, a much simpler app, popped open a widget at predefined intervals to ask what I was doing (predefined projects and/or tasks, but lacking detail). Maybe a solution for Session would be a variant on Daily, an optional pop-up prompt when I've been on my computer for a set period (5 minutes?) without starting a session. "Start Session? > Yes > No". A "Yes" response could take me to the Session window. But a simpler prompt wouldn't even do that... it's just a reminder that goes away when I choose Yes or No. This would have the added benefit of bugging me when I'm goofing-off watching YouTube when I should have a Session underway.

After we have defined (or imported) our tasks and assigned a duration to them, allow us to drag and drop tasks over the hours of the day. Result: start and end times built to our real days, with non-work time blocks as empty spaces in between. There’s a school of thought among productivity gurus that To Do lists are inferior to schedule or agenda building because To Do lists do not relate well to real time. To fix this issue, tasks in a To Do list should have durations attached. Session does this already. These "time boxes" are then assigned to hours of the day. This allows us to see our To Do list in context of our real day, with meal breaks, exercise blocks or YouTube marathons showing as blank spaces on the calendar. There's a workaround on Session: we can add a calendar event to create these spaces, but it's tedious to record non-work blocks that way. Every day. Drag-and-drop tasks would be an elegant solution. If not drag-and-drop, assigned start time for tasks that reflect on the calendar would also work. I know Philip wants to keep To Do simple and has refused other feature bloat requests. Yet, if this feature is not too complicated to implement, it has huge productivity benefits that all Session users can realize.

When I am online I will sometimes go down rabbit holes for long periods of time while I'm doing email or catching up on news during a break. It would be great it I could setup a timer to allow me to do [whatever I want] for a set number of time at the expiration of which a predefined session would automatically start and block me out of the apps and websites I already setup in the app.

Sync tasks with Todoist, thanks.

I really enjoy using Session to track my work time. Thank you for building such a helpful tool! I wanted to suggest a feature improvement. Currently, when I pause a session, the paused time is still included in the total time recorded. For example, if I complete a 1.5-hour focused session but get interrupted and pause for 1 hour in the middle, the total recorded time ends up being 2.5 hours. However, only 1.5 hours of that was actual focused work. It would be great if the app could exclude paused time from the total focused time (or at least offer this as an optional setting) to better reflect actual productivity.

Widgets are not working and neither is the countdown

It would be great if the notes are synced (copied to) with apple notes with session id and date stamp. It's a design choice to share one synced apple note for multiple sessions under one category.

It would be great to have more background sound options including some music options. I've seen some competitors use music like: "jazz lounge", "bossa nova", "space ambience", and "binaural". It would be great to have more music options. I don't particularly like the options available at the moment.

Ability to switch the focus of a session such that the current session is automatically stopped and a new session is started with the time remaining left unchanged. This would be useful for time-tracking as you could switch between tracking for two projects if a task happens to stretch across projects that you are tracking separately.

Please make an Obsidian Plug-In that integrates with daily notes. It would be fantastic to log sessions in the daily note as well as get feedback inside Obsidian about the currently running session. The 'intention' and the 'feedback' could be appended to the daily notes.