About 10MB
A small idea, taken seriously: pay attention to your time ten minutes at a time, and the days start to add up to something.
01 What the name means
10MB is short for Ten-Minute Blocks. It has nothing to do with megabytes. It names the unit we ask you to think in. A day is broken into ten-minute pieces, and after the fact you tell us how each one was spent.
02 Seven years in the making
I've filled in a time grid, ten minutes at a time, on and off for over seven years, and daily for the last few. 10MB is the tool I kept rebuilding to make that easier, first for myself and then for anyone who wanted to try it. Here's how it got from a notebook to the app you're looking at now.
It started in a notebook
Before it was software, it was a grid I ruled by hand and filled with a pen. It was messy and easy to skip a day, but for the first time I could see my week, and I couldn't unsee it. The whole idea was proven here, in the margins of a notebook.
The first app was rough, and it was mine
I taught myself enough to ship a plain iOS app so I could stop carrying the notebook. It was blocky and utilitarian, basically the paper grid rebuilt in stock components. It was ugly, but it was always in my pocket, and that's what made me stick with it.
2.0 made it feel like something
Once it worked, I wanted it to feel good to open. 2.0 was the first real design pass: a color per category, a proper dashboard, gradients everywhere. In hindsight it was too much, but it was the version that turned tracking from a chore into a habit I looked forward to.
3.0 is what you're using now
This version is a clean start: the web app, and a calmer design built on soft, rounded blocks, so the tool gets out of the way and the time is what you notice. After seven years of rebuilding, it's the simplest version yet.
Seven years in, I still fill in my grid every day. It changed how I see my time, and I built 3.0 so it could do the same for you. It takes about 30 seconds a day. Come track one with me.
Start tracking with me03 Why ten minutes
Most time trackers chase precision, with start timers, stop timers, and every stray minute accounted for. We care more about awareness. You can't change a week you can't see.
Ten minutes is the sweet spot. Finer than that and logging becomes a chore you'll abandon by Thursday. Coarser, and the picture goes blurry. Ten minutes is small enough to be accurate and large enough that filling in a day takes seconds.
Notice, don't optimize. The grid shows you your day so you can choose tomorrow on purpose.
04 What 10MB is not
10MB is manual on purpose. It doesn't watch your screen, read your calendar, or track your location to guess what you were doing. Nothing is logged until you say so.
That sounds like more work, and it is: about 30 seconds of it a day. But choosing the category yourself is half the value. The pause where you decide "that was Focus, not Work" is where the awareness comes from.
05 Your data
- Yours to keep
- Your blocks, goals, and notes belong to you. Export your whole history to open CSV and JSON files at any time, and delete it for good whenever you like, no questions asked.
- Private by default
- We don't sell data and we don't run ads, so you're never the product.
- Synced across your devices
- Your grid follows you. Log on the web now and on the native apps as they arrive, and it all stays in sync. Your data is yours alone, and nothing is shared with anyone else.
06 Credits
10MB is a solo passion project, built and rebuilt over seven years by one person who got tired of wondering where the week went. There's no growth team and no investors to answer to. If it helps you spend your hours a little more on purpose, it's doing its job.
Questions, bugs, or a feature you wish existed? Get in touch. I read every note.