Show HN: A macOS app for consistent work logs

Hi there,

I work in a medium-big public company, and one common source of frustrations in a lot of such companies is finding evidences twice a year for promo-pack or self-evaluations.

Last couple of months I worked on reflekto.app, that help with capturing work on daily basis.

Current set of features:

manual logging of work; filters, grouping by date, etc.; automatic sync of merged PRs from Github and Gitlab; MCP server, so you can talk through the MCP with your past slef :) or capture the work that you did in the current claude session. Image prompts like "Log the work of this session in reflekto" or "Make a summary of what i did yesterday for standup"; Everything stored locally, nothing leaves your macbook

I am planning to add more integrations, reports, export options, support in other platform (Currently only Mac with M chips). Also some MCP capabilities will become builtin features

I'll highly appreciate if you guys try it out. Currently it's free.

P.S.

I know there are tons of services that track our work day (# of PRs, coding time, jira tickets) that is used to evaluate us, but there is no a good way of self reflection. I've listened to to "pragmatic engineer"'s podcast and learned that experienced engineers have a habit of maintaining a worklog, usually in a simple google docs. I have started the same, and got some ideas about building something more than docs

3 points | by reflekto-app 3 hours ago

3 comments

  • andsoitis 3 hours ago
    Promotion ought to be based on impact, which should be easy to describe and substantiated by colleagues, rather than logging the minutiae like specific PRs.
    • reflekto-app 2 hours ago
      agree, but having all work done in one place helps to figure out what was the impact, especially if you make good PR descriptions.

      But also, it's not about just PRs, more integrations are planned, and combination of sources will help AI to summarize all the aspect of work, including the impact

  • allinonetools_ 2 hours ago
    Nice idea. I have found that the biggest challenge with work logs is consistency — if it takes more than a few seconds, people stop using it. Tools that make logging feel effortless tend to stick.
    • reflekto-app 2 hours ago
      yes true, I am dog fooding it myself, and honestly MCP helps a lot with consistency. Every time I finish a big feature, I prompt "capture this work" and it makes nice summary, that will be easy to use later.
      • allinonetools_ 2 hours ago
        That makes sense. Having a natural trigger like “capture this work” right after finishing something is probably what keeps the habit alive. Without that moment, most logging systems fade away.
  • bestpomegranate 3 hours ago
    I’ve definitely felt the frustration of collecting evidence for promotion pack. Nice to see a local-first take on this, and the MCP angle is interesting. I’ll give it a try.
    • reflekto-app 3 hours ago
      thank you, the feedback is appreciated! Feel free to send it to info@reflekto.app