Write it down the day you do it

Why we built it

Docket came out of a need we kept running into, first in our own work and then with more than one customer team. Work was spread across several jobs at once, different clients, projects and sites, and at the end of the week, or the month, someone had to report on what had been done for each of them. The work had happened. The record of it had not.

What we found was always the same. Tasks done on a busy Tuesday were forgotten by Friday. Small jobs that never got a ticket never made the report, or the invoice. Things people had promised to "get to" lived in heads, inboxes and sticky notes, and quietly never got done. And the report itself was rebuilt from memory, calendar entries and sent mail, which took an hour and was still incomplete.

The tools on offer were either too heavy, full project-management or time-tracking systems that people stop updating within a fortnight, or too loose, a notes file with no way to see a job across days. So we built the thing in between: a log that takes five seconds a task, knows which job each task belongs to, and turns any day, week, month or job into a report you can paste.

The work you do not write down is the work nobody knows you did. Docket exists so that writing it down takes less effort than forgetting it.

What it does

A daily log that saves as you type

Type what you did and press Enter. It is saved immediately, with no save button and nothing to lose. Move between days with the arrows or a calendar, edit or delete an entry, drag entries into order, or drag one onto another day if you logged it on the wrong one. An undo appears for every delete and move.

Jobs: everything for one client, site or project

Set a job and every entry you add goes against it, until you change it. Each job gets its own colour, so the log, the week and the month calendar show at a glance where the time went. Open a job to see everything ever logged on it across every day, with totals, and copy the lot as a job report, ready for an invoice or a client update. Print the job view for a clean report of the job, its dates and totals, every entry by day and what is still to do, or save it as a PDF to keep or email. When a job is finished, archive it: it leaves the Jobs list but keeps everything on it, and comes back by itself if you log new work against it. Deleting a job never deletes the work that was logged on it.

A wishlist, so nothing promised is forgotten

The things you still need to do go on the wishlist, in its own panel beside the log, each with its job if it has one. When one gets done, drag it onto the day, and it becomes an entry in the log. The job view lists each job's open wishlist items above its logged work, so the outstanding work sits right next to the finished work.

Recurring tasks

The things you do every week, the timesheet, the backup check, the site visit, live in a recurring list. Drag one onto a day to log it, and it stays in the list for next time. Docket skips it if it is already logged on that day. Give a recurring task the days it is due, say every Friday for the timesheet, and on those days it waits under Due today at the top of the log: one click logs it, another skips it until next time.

Day, week and month views, and copy-ready reports

Switch between a single day, the whole week and a month calendar that names each day's jobs. The copy button follows the view: copy the day with its date and a bulleted list, just the lines, the whole week, the month to date, or one job across every day. Paste it into an email, a timesheet or an invoice.

Fast to use

Search every entry, job, wishlist and recurring item. Keyboard shortcuts move between days and views, start a new entry or copy the open view. Docket follows your system's light or dark setting, works on a touch screen, and its built-in guide explains every button.

Your data stays on your device

Docket has no account and no server holding your log. It downloads once, then runs on your own computer or phone, and that is still true when you open it from the link. Everything you type is stored by your browser on that device and is never sent to Stef's Time or anyone else. There is nothing to sign up for, nothing to leak and nothing to cancel.

That choice comes with two things worth knowing:

• Keep a backup. Clearing the browser's site data erases the log. Export JSON saves everything, the log, jobs, wishlist and recurring tasks, to a file, and Import JSON puts it back. Docket shows when you last exported and reminds you after two weeks if the log has changed. In Chrome or Edge on a computer it can also back up by itself: pick a folder once, a OneDrive or Dropbox folder gives you a copy off the computer, and Docket saves a backup there after every change, one file a day, keeping the last 30.
• Each browser keeps its own log. Stick to one browser on one device, and use Export JSON and Import JSON to move to another. Two tabs of the same browser stay in step with each other.

Export CSV gives you the same data in a file you can open in Excel, edit and import back. You can also bulk-load a month of work, a wishlist or recurring tasks from a spreadsheet, and re-importing safely skips anything already there. Every import can be undone, and text that Excel would mistake for a formula is protected on the way out and restored on the way back in.

Install it as an app

Docket runs in any modern browser, so you can simply bookmark it. Where your browser supports it, an Install app button appears at the top right. In Chrome or Edge you can also use the install icon in the address bar. Installing gives Docket its own window and a Start menu or dock icon, and lets it open and work with no internet connection at all.

How Docket has grown

20 October 2026: on this site

A daily log that saves as you type, jobs with colours, totals and a copy-ready job report, a wishlist, recurring tasks, day, week and month views, search and shortcuts, JSON and CSV backup, and an installable app that works offline, all with no account and nothing sent anywhere.

By 27 October 2026: backups that happen by themselves, and reports you can print

• Automatic backup to a folder in Chrome or Edge on a computer, after every change, keeping the last 30 days, plus a reminder when you have not exported for two weeks.
• Printable job reports, with dates, totals, every entry by day and what is still to do, ready to save as a PDF.
• Archived jobs, so finished work leaves the list without losing a single entry.
• Due days for recurring tasks, shown under Due today on the days they are due.
• The wishlist in its own panel beside the log, below it on smaller screens.
• Safer imports and tabs: undo for every import, formula-safe CSV for Excel, two tabs that stay in step, and a clear "Not saved" warning if the browser blocks storage.

Free, as is, and open to ideas

Docket is completely free and offered as is: a finished, working tool that does one job well, with no set roadmap. It does still get better when there is good reason to, and we record each addition below rather than quietly rewriting this page.

That does not mean it cannot change. If there is something you would like Docket to do, get in touch. Depending on the idea, we can build it for you as your own version, or, if it is something that would help everyone using it, make it part of Docket itself and carry the cost ourselves.

If your team has outgrown a personal log and needs the same idea shared across people, with owners and deadlines, that is what Owners Log and the systems we build and integrate are for. The thinking behind Docket is set out in the work you forgot to write down.