Worklog Solo Your private work journal

Local-first · No account · No cloud · No sync

Eight hours went somewhere.
Only five got written down.

Worklog Solo is a calendar-first desktop work journal for Windows and macOS. Rebuild the day at about ten seconds an entry, let it total itself, and keep every record on the machine that made it.

Download 0.9.0 Try it right here

Windows 10, 11 and macOS 11+ Installs without admin rights Works offline, always

Live demo — nothing is saved Drag an empty slot to log time Click a dashed suggestion to confirm it
Worklog Solo Your private work journal
Wednesday 9 September Day view · Local time
Demo calendar · 1 suggestion in view
Quick add · drag works too All changes saved locally Desktop shortcut: Cmd/Ctrl + N · New entry

Capture → Confirm → Review

Three moves, repeated all day

The order matters: nothing counts as work until you say it did.

1

Capture any minute

Drag an empty slot, press N, or type exact Start and End times. A 10:21–10:46 entry stays exactly 25 minutes — snapping applies to dragging, not to what you type.

15-minute grid by default · 5, 10 or 30 in Settings

2

Confirm, don't assume

Calendar events arrive as dashed suggestions beside your real entries and count zero minutes until you convert one. A meeting that was booked is a memory prompt, not proof it happened.

Local .ics import today · Microsoft 365 and Google adapters built

3

Review and follow through

Flag what needs a second look, attach action items with optional reminders, then read the period back by project and work type with exact totals.

Longest-first sorting · labelled breakdowns · JSON backup

What's in the app

Built for reconstructing a real day

Two of these cards are live — type in them and watch the window above change.

Action items with private reminders

Attach follow-ups to the entry that created them, give one an optional reminder, and get a native desktop notification with Complete, Snooze, Change time and Ignore. Ignore keeps the task open; it just stops that one alert.

    Reminders are scheduled by the operating system and never leave it.

    Review that answers the Friday question

    Every entry in the period, sorted longest first, with directly labelled project and work-type breakdowns. Percentages and durations stay as text, so a screen reader gets the same answer the chart does.

    Reads the demo week above — confirm a suggestion and it moves.

    Day, Week, Month — and three densities

    Sunday-first Week and Month, plus Overview, Balanced and Detail timeline scales. Changing density keeps the same time near the middle of the view.

    Drag, resize, duplicate, flag

    Move and resize with the pointer or the keyboard — arrows adjust, Escape cancels. Alt- or Option-drag duplicates an entry. A flag marks anything that needs a second look.

    Projects and categories that survive edits

    Rename, recolour, reorder, archive or delete a classification and choose what happens to the entries using it. Nothing is reassigned behind your back.

    A backup you actually hold

    Export one versioned JSON file with entries, projects, action items and settings. Preview a restore before it replaces anything, and carry it between Windows and macOS.

    Signed updates, on your say-so

    Worklog checks a signed release feed at launch, saves your snapshot first, and installs only when you choose Install and restart.

    Pin it, zoom it, keep it comfortable

    Always-on-top for sticky-note use, 50–200% interface zoom that persists, comfortable light and dark themes, and keyboard shortcuts that stay out of text fields.

    What it protects

    Yours, and only on this machine

    Storage

    Local by default, plainly labelled

    Records live in the installed app's own store — the WebView2 profile on Windows, the WKWebView data store on macOS. The sidebar always names where your data currently lives.

    Identity

    Nothing to sign into

    No login, no server, no account to delete later. Nothing about your day leaves the device unless you export it yourself.

    Calendar

    Read-only, and never required

    Import a local .ics file and keep working. The Microsoft and Google adapters are built for read-only access through the system browser, with tokens held in memory only and never written into backups.

    Portability

    Exportable, inspectable JSON

    A schema-5 backup carries your entries, project goals and their links, classifications, action items and preferences — and deliberately excludes calendar credentials and notification handles.

    Get Worklog Solo 0.9.0

    Two installers, one local app

    Free while it is a public preview. Both builds ship from GitHub Releases with a published SHA-256 for every file.

    Windows

    Package
    Per-user NSIS installer — no administrator rights
    Runs on
    Windows 10 version 1803 and later, and Windows 11
    Runtime
    Uses the built-in WebView2, or fetches it during install
    Preview · unsigned

    SmartScreen will call it an unrecognised app until publisher verification is done. Choose More info → Run anyway.

    Download for Windows

    macOS

    Package
    Universal DMG — Apple Silicon and Intel in one download
    Runs on
    macOS 11 Big Sur and later
    Runtime
    Uses the system WKWebView — nothing extra to install
    Preview · ad-hoc signed

    Signed but not yet notarised, so Gatekeeper asks you to approve Worklog Solo once under System Settings → Privacy & Security.

    Download for macOS

    Windows publisher verification and Apple Developer ID notarisation are the next two milestones — these preview notices come off this page when they land. From 0.3.0 onward the app can update itself from the signed release feed.

    Before you install

    Reasonable questions

    Does anything sync between my machines?

    No. There is no server, no account and no sync. Each installation keeps its own records. To move them, export a JSON backup on one machine and restore it on the other — the format is the same on Windows and macOS.

    Can it read my work calendar?

    It can import a local .ics file today. Read-only Microsoft 365 and Google adapters are built into the app — system-browser sign-in, memory-only tokens, selected calendars only — but they still need their provider registrations and installed-platform acceptance before live sign-in is offered. Either way, imported events arrive as suggestions worth zero minutes until you confirm them.

    What happens to my data if I uninstall it?

    Records live in the application's own WebView profile, so removing the application data or losing the OS user profile removes them. Export a JSON backup before you uninstall, reset, or move machines — that file is the copy you own.

    Is it free?

    Yes, while it is a public preview. It is a single-person project distributed through GitHub Releases rather than an app store, which is also why the installers still show unverified-publisher warnings.

    Does it track me automatically?

    No. There is no activity monitoring, no screenshots, no window or URL capture, and no live timer. You reconstruct the day deliberately — which is the point, and the reason it can stay entirely offline.