Event Tally

A combination of a tally counter with a clock, so you can count the frequency of occurrences of events.

Why This Even Exists

This started as a project to help me figure out how frequently the horrible human beings around me coughed their virus-laden phlegm into the air while holding their masks down from their faces. Tally counters exist, but they don’t record when they got clicked, so five clicks in a row followed by twenty minutes of nothing results in the same count as twenty minutes of one click every four minutes. This app lets me click the “something happened” button and then, later, define a window of time, and then draw insights like, “Oh, all the coughing and sneezing clustered at fifteen minutes into the meeting,” or, “The speaker said ‘um’ every 20 seconds.”

The events are logged in the user’s private iCloud database. The iOS and watchOS apps only record events, while the macOS application does analysis, since that’s the sort of thing screen real estate is good for.