Time Sink

Release Notes

What's new in Time Sink?

Time Sink 2.2.4

February 12, 2025

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Captured screenshots now avoid taking photos of the lock screen. (Hat tip to Peter O. for reporting this one.)
• Captured screenshots will no longer accumulate above the user-set limit. (Hat tip to Peter O. for reporting this one.)
• Report view is now sorted properly regardless of chosen date interval. (Hat tip to Zach N. for reporting this one.)
• All new in-app help, which is now also available on the web.
• Various minor updates to keep up with macOS changes.

Time Sink 2.2.3

September 24, 2021

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Restored compatibility with macOS 10.9 through 10.11. (Hat tip to Lokesh P. for reporting this one.)

Time Sink 2.2.2

July 22, 2021

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Fixed a bug where specifying a custom auto-export snapshots folder could break the screenshots feature. (Hat tip to "Quartzic" for reporting this one.)
• Made it easier to return to the default auto-export snapshots folder.

Time Sink 2.2.1

March 5, 2021

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Fixed a regression where the Organizer's overall apps/pools timers were immune to timer suspension. (Hat tip to Cedric Å. for reporting this one.)

Time Sink 2.2

February 23, 2021

New Features

• Now supports Dark Mode.

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Time Sink is now a universal app that runs natively both on Apple silicon and Intel processors.

Time Sink 2.1

March 3, 2020

New Features

• Time Sink can now optionally take screenshots at a regular interval to better illustrate what you spend your time on. The Export preferences have the necessary controls to enable and configure this new feature.

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Fixed window title monitoring on macOS 10.15 Catalina. Unfortunately, this requires registering Time Sink as a screen recording app. We are not recording your screen outside of the new screenshots feature described above, if enabled. But without approving Time Sink as a screen recording app, all Time Sink can track on macOS 10.15 Catalina is application names, but not window titles, thanks to newly introduced privacy logic in the operating system.

Time Sink 2.0.1

October 3, 2018

New Features

• Added a checkbox to include status item apps (e.g. windows from menu bar apps) in Time Sink's timers.
• The Escape key can be used to cancel app interval dragging in the Activity Report window.

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Fixed an issue some users of multi-display multi-Space systems had activating Time Sink's menu bar item.
• Increased report window minimum width to account for certain time formats.
• Fixed a bug that prevented Time Sink from working on OS X 10.9.5. (Hat tip to Roger P. for reporting this one.)

Time Sink 2.0

January 16, 2017

New Features

• Use ad-hoc timers to track non-Mac activities.
• Timers now pause automatically when the display sleeps.
• Easily pause and resume tracking of your activities.
• Choose time frame for Reports via simple pop-up menu.
• Open exported reports in Time Sink to look at historical data.
• User-definable time for "start of day."
• View time usage as percentages instead of hours/minutes.
• Use window title filters to merge windows from apps that include always-changing info in window titles, like the zoom level.
• Choose the original appearance theme, or one of two new themes.
• The App Store version of Time Sink is sandboxed.

Time Sink 1.2.6

September 9, 2016

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Makes sure updating to an imminent new major Time Sink version will work on an imminent new major macOS version.

Time Sink 1.2.5

January 31, 2016

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Updated the Sparkle in-app update mechanism to use a secure connection (HTTPS).

Time Sink 1.2.4

September 28, 2015

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Fixed an issue with OS X 10.11 El Capitan's Gatekeeper.

Time Sink 1.2.3

August 6, 2014

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Modified some interface elements in preparation for Yosemite (OS X 10.10).
• Prepared for upcoming Gatekeeper changes.

Time Sink 1.2.2

October 23, 2013

New Features

• New entry in View menu lets you show times over 24 hours as days instead of hours.
• Lists windows from all Spaces.

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Fixed a bug that caused some auto-exported reports to not export all data.
• Disabled Report view's contextual menus in cases where they don't apply.

Time Sink 1.2.1

April 24, 2012

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Time Sink now ignores floating windows by default.
• Fixed an issue related to application-specific window blacklisting. (Hat tip to Heidi B. for finding this one.)

Time Sink 1.2

March 23, 2011

New Features

• Wildcarded window titles (i.e. *somewindow*) can now be pooled across all applications. (Hat tip to Visnu P. for the suggestion.)
• Time Sink's CPU usage can be managed via a new slider in the General section of its Preferences.

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• License files that end in .xml are now accepted when dropped on Time Sink's Dock icon.
• Time Sink no longer writes occasional spurious messages to the Console.

Time Sink 1.1.2

January, 20 2011

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Certain applications with non-standard naming practices (in their code, not the publicly-visible name) weren't being picked up by Time Sink. (Hat tip to Paolo S. for reporting this one.)

Time Sink 1.1.1

December 1, 2010

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Fixed auto-export, which was broken in the 1.1 release. (Hat tip to Alan G. for reporting this one.)

Time Sink 1.1

November 30, 2010

New Features

• Auto-exports can now only export new data since the last export.
• Auto-exports can be set for any hour of the day.
• A new 'time bar' appears when custom time periods have been chosen in the Activity Report window. You can drag the time bar around to see different portions of Time Sink's history.
• Optionally see the date/time of the position under the mouse when viewing the Activity Report in Time Lapse mode.
• The Activity Reports window now has a contextual menu; Control-click on any entry to see it.
• Entries in the Activity Reports window can be expanded and collapsed, just as in the Time Sink Organizer window.
• Added 'Bring to Foreground' and 'Quit' to the contextual menu.

Time Sink 1.0.1

November 2, 2010

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Alert windows (e.g., when resetting timers) won't display behind other windows when in menu bar mode. (When this happened, it caused those alerts to remain virtually invisible while blocking Time Sink)
• Better logging tools are available for us to use when debugging problem reports.

Time Sink 1.0

October 28, 2010

Takeoff

• Initial release of Time Sink 1.0