<story><title>Show HN: A minimalist Mac app that helps track, allocate, and plan your time</title><url>https://apps.apple.com/us/app/effortless/id1368722917</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>reaperducer</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not in the market for this kind of app, but thank you for making it a straight $9.99 purchase, instead of a $4.99&amp;#x2F;month SaaS (rental) scheme.  Or some bogus in-app purchase that gets negated somewhere along the way when the app auto-updates and the previous in-app purchase is no longer available.&lt;p&gt;I can&amp;#x27;t tell if it syncs data with my other Apple devices, but if it does, it would be great if it had the option of doing it through iCloud instead of through some proprietary untrusted service that I have to create yet another account for. (I&amp;#x27; looking at you, Panic and Junecloud.)</text></comment>
<story><title>Show HN: A minimalist Mac app that helps track, allocate, and plan your time</title><url>https://apps.apple.com/us/app/effortless/id1368722917</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jpulgarin</author><text>Hey HN! My name is Julian, and I made Effortless with aracena to solve a problem we were both having: how to focus on exactly one thing at a time. Effortless displays my current task, and a countdown timer in the menu bar, and although it sounds silly, it means that I have a constant visual reminder of what I should be working on. Effortless was also a great excuse to learn Swift and native Mac app development. I&amp;#x27;m happy to answer any questions about the app or the development process, although it&amp;#x27;s my birthday so I might be a little slow to respond. If you have any feedback or want a trial code to test Effortless out feel free to write me at julian@effortless.app . Thanks!</text></comment>