challa.net / time

The scratchpad that
watches the clock
with you.

Write your tasks freely. Click a line to start timing it. Leave the line and it renders beautifully. That's the whole idea.

challa.net
time
TIMER
00:00:00
Start
🔨 On it: southpark_appserver02 | Add company-X field
DIH Deployment for weekend
southpark_appserver02 | Search ServiceAccount and update passwords
southpark_appserver02 | Add company-X field
Confirm service is running on app server
Start using it now See how it works ↓
Most tools demand your attention.
This one earns it.
Built for people who write tasks the same way they think — freely, quickly, without ceremony.

01 — Focus mode

Type freely.
It renders itself.

Click any line to edit it as plain text. Leave the line — it renders into a heading, a tagged task, a checkbox. No toolbar, no mode switch, no friction.

Use ### Name for a section. Name | task for a one-liner. [ ] for a checkbox. Write naturally — the tool understands.

### Shiva | Revisit business phone
Shiva
Search ServiceAccount and update passwords
Add company-X field
> Confirm with the team before the weekend deployment

02 — Task timer

Select a line.
Start the clock.

Click any line in your notes and hit Start. The timer runs. Pause it when interrupted. Stop it — and the time is logged, appended to the line, and grouped under the right name in your Time Log.

The status strip elevates with an amber glow when you're actively timing. The vertical TIMER label and amber spine signal the running state without shouting at you.

challa.net · time
TIMER
00:08:34
Running
Pause
Stop
🔨 On it: Add company-X field
southpark_appserver02 | Add company-X field
Previously logged: 00:04:12 · 09:14 AM

03 — Name & project tagging

Every task knows
who it belongs to.

Two natural patterns — no new syntax to learn. Use ### Name to open a section with multiple tasks under one person or project. Use Name | task for a quick one-liner.

Both render the same amber label. Both group correctly in the Time Log. Works equally well for people names and project codes.

Shiva Challa
Revisit business phone issue — missing numbers
Cartman | Latinization: Add character Á to transliteration map.
Timmy | Change diagram — add databases
Shiva Challa | Add company field

04 — Time log

End of day.
Where did the time go?

Every completed task is grouped by person or project, with a total time per group. At the end of the day — or a billing period — click Copy for a clean plain-text report ready to paste anywhere.

No export wizard. No CSV. Just structured text that makes sense to a human.

Shiva Challa 01:24:08
Revisit business phone issue00:48:22
Latinization fix00:35:46
southpark_appserver02 00:42:17
Add company-X field00:28:05
Test SSIS package00:14:12
Timmy 00:31:55
diagram rework00:31:55

05 — AI tidy

Fast notes,
clean list.

Write fast and messy — that's how thinking works. When you're ready, click ✦ Tidy. Claude reads your list, fixes spelling and grammar, removes duplicates, and makes every task start with an action verb.

Your notation — checkboxes, name tags, headings, bullets — is preserved exactly. Only the prose gets polished.

✦ Tidy
Before
[ ] southpark_appserver02 | add company-x field
[ ] southpark_appserver02 | add company-x Name
[ ] Timmy | diagram changes needed
[ ] Shiva re: phone numbers missing
After
[ ] southpark_appserver02 | Add company-X field
removed duplicate
[ ] Timmy | Update diagram — add databases
[ ] Shiva Challa | Investigate missing phone numbers

A tool you open
because it's
pleasant to look at.

Most productivity tools are built to hold data. This one was built to be used daily — which means it has to feel good to open, not just functional to interact with.

The palette is parchment editorial: warm ivory page, pure white surfaces, warm near-black text that reads like ink. The amber accent appears only where it earns its place — active timers, name tags, the running state spine.

The vertical TIMER label. The elevated status strip. The Typora focus mode. These aren't features. They're the reason you'll open the tab again tomorrow.

Page
Surface
Ink
Muted
Amber
Dark bg

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No account. No email. Just a username and a PIN.

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