FlouState

What it does

Think you debug 50% of the time? Data shows it's 1%. Automatic work type tracking reveals where your coding time ACTUALLY goes—creating, debugging, refactoring, or exploring. Finally understand your real work patterns.

The intelligent focus timer that automatically categorizes your coding work. Understand your productivity, eliminate guesswork, and become a more effective developer.

Generic time trackers show duration. FlouState shows 3h creating, 2h exploring, 1h refactoring, 1h debugging. Finally understand your work patterns. FlouState runs silently in the background, automatically categorizing your work as you code. No timers, no manual logging. You coded 7 hours today. Traditional time trackers say "7 hours." FlouState shows you spent 3h creating, 2h exploring, 1h debugging, and 1h refactoring. Finally understand where your time actually goes. You forgot to start/stop the timer, leading to hours of lost data and guesswork about where your time actually went. Your most heroic debugging sessions and deep thinking time are marked as "idle" because you weren't typing.…from floustate.com

In the maker’s words, at launch

I built FlouState because "4 hours of coding" tells you nothing. Was it 4 hours debugging or 4 hours building features? Very different. It's a VS Code extension that automatically categorizes your coding into: Creating (new features), Debugging (fixing issues), Refactoring (improving code), or Exploring (learning…

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