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TimberEvery Log Counts
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Describe it · fills the form
Customer
Duration
Work type · optional
Note · optional
Today ·

Log

This week0h

Calendar

0m

Inbox

Done

Settings

Customers
Work Types & Rates
Rates

Your standard hourly rate. Work types use it unless you give one its own rate (Edit next to the type) — handy for night, weekend or specialist work.

Backup

Save an encrypted copy of everything, or restore it on a new phone. Protected by a password only you know — keep it safe, it can’t be recovered if lost. Nothing leaves your device except the file you choose to save.

iPhone tip: removing the app’s icon from your Home Screen erases its saved data. Back up first, then restore after re-adding.

Remind me to back up
Additional Options
Recent entries to show
Remind me at

Only on days you haven’t logged anything. Checked each time you open Timber.

Amounts are what you have logged — not invoiced and not paid — and exclude tax. They stay blurred until you tap one, so opening Timber in front of a customer doesn't show them your week. A “+” means some entries have no rate set and aren't counted.

Turns logged time into a Xero sales-invoice CSV — one invoice per customer, one line per entry. These aren’t in your logs, so set them once. The rate comes from Rates above.

Must match your Xero organisation exactly — AU “GST on Income”, UK “20% (VAT on Income)”. Leave blank and Xero may import the lines untaxed.

Dates export as DD/MM/YYYY (AU / UK / NZ). A US Xero organisation expects MM/DD/YYYY — don’t use this export there yet.

Help

Quick start: add a customer, then tap Log Activity on the Home tab — tap the customer, tap a duration, Save. Everything else (report, follow-ups, export) builds on those logs.

Reminders: “Save + remind” hands the follow-up to Apple’s Shortcuts app, using a shortcut named “Log Reminder”. If nothing happens when you tap it, the Shortcuts app isn’t installed on this device — it’s free on the App Store, and Timber works fine without it (follow-ups still land in the Follow-ups tab). The app version replaces this with proper notifications and needs no Shortcuts.

Version history

v0.33 — Ideas & Notes gets its own button at the bottom of Home, replacing the Capture a thought link.

v0.32 — Press and hold any entry, or a customer in Settings, and it lifts off the screen with Edit and Delete right there. No trip into the entry, and nothing new cluttering the list. Tapping still opens an entry exactly as before. Beta only.

v0.31 — Saving now shows you it worked: your entry lifts off the Save button and lands on its own card in the list, and the app settles into place when you open it. Nothing about how you log has changed. Beta only.

v0.30 — Calendar replaces Month. Day, week or month is now your choice rather than a fixed calendar month, and the dots under each date show how much you logged rather than what kind of work. A customer filter runs through the totals, the list and the dots at once. Export moved to a single button at the top — pick the period, pick all customers or choose them, and take one file each or combine them.

v0.29 — Work notes: capture a thought without logging time — what you were doing, why it mattered, what to pick up next. A note holds no duration and never reaches an export. If it turns out to be billable, Log as work opens the normal form prefilled with it; the note keeps the context, and the entry shows where it came from. Off by default — turn it on in Settings.

v0.28 — Describe it: type what happened in plain language (“Two hours of support for Kanda yesterday, fixed the router”) and the form fills itself — customer, duration, date, work type, note, follow-up. You always review before saving; Timber never picks between two similar customers or guesses a duration. Beta only.

v0.27 — Currency picker rebuilt on ISO codes (yen and yuan split), amounts formatted per currency. Customer names in Settings open a contact card with tappable phone / email / website. Rates moved in with Work Types. Recent list now off by default.

v0.26 — App version: the mic button dictates for real (tap, speak, tap to stop) and exports/backups use the system share sheet. Web unchanged.

v0.25 — Reminders without leaving the app: Save + Remind now schedules a real notification directly, no Shortcuts detour. Optional daily nudge if you haven’t logged anything.

v0.24 — Amounts on Home, off by default: turn them on and the day’s value sits under the hours, blurred until you tap. Currency is a picker rather than free text. Customers can hold an address, with a one-tap map link.

v0.23 — 4h and 8h chips for longer blocks. Work types carry their own rate, edited alongside the name. The Recent list length is yours to set.

v0.22 — Tapping a duration no longer forces the time sheet open — the window is prefilled and tappable if you want it. A one-off coach mark points at your first entry, and Home shows today’s running total.

v0.21 — An overlap warning when a new entry collides with an existing one. It warns; it never blocks.

v0.20 — Data-loss fixes: editing an entry then switching tabs no longer silently overwrites it, and a cancelled backup no longer reports success. The Save bar is docked so it can’t be pushed off screen.

v0.19 — Saving animates into the Log tab, so it’s obvious where the entry went.

v0.18 — A guided tour, from the welcome screen or Help whenever you want it again.

v0.17 — Home is the landing screen: summary tiles and a single large button to log work.

v0.16 — First-run welcome and a Help section.

v0.15 — Follow-ups show the customer’s contact, with one-tap Call and Email.

v0.14 — One Export button on Log and Month: choose a period (this week, this month, last month, any month, or all time) then how to send it.

v0.13 — Edit a customer: rename one and every past entry follows. Optional contact per customer — name, title, email, phone — included in CSV exports for invoicing, or marked Private to keep it on your device only.

v0.12 — Search on the Log tab: filter every entry by customer, work type, or notes, with match count and total time. Clearer section titles and a lighter background.

v0.11 — Follow-ups get their own tab with an open-count badge — tick Done as you go. One-tap weekly Report from the Log tab.

v0.10 — The Add tab became Today: quick-repeat chips for two-tap logging, a running daily total, and your day’s timeline with tap-to-edit.

v0.9 — Settings home, encrypted backup & restore with reminders on your cadence, and this messages inbox.

v0.8 — Month view, editable work types, optional sentiment, the iOS reminder shortcut, and CSV / email exports.

Timber v0.37.0 · reminder shortcut: “Log Reminder”

Edit work type
Rate

Date
Start
Ends
Capture a thought
What do you want to remember?
What I’m working on
Before you start, or as you go
What are you starting, and for who?
How long do you expect? · What does done look like?
Customer optional
Review activity
You planned
How did it go, and what do you want to note about this work?
Anything to watch here next time?
Optional — answer one, both or neither
Choose customer
Activity to review
Activity not yet logged. Tap one to open it.
Swipe a row left to discard it.
Discard this activity?
Export
Customers
Send as

Copy and Email always send one combined file.

Accounting
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