Alright, I’m going to be completely upfront: yes, this is a shameless plug for my open-source project.
But I’m sharing it because I know I am not the only developer who struggles with this exact problem.
When you spend hours entirely submerged in complex C# backend logic or untangling sprawling SQL queries, context-switching is painful. By the time 5:00 PM rolls around and you need to fill out your timesheet or write a stand-up update, your executive function is entirely fried. You experience complete "time blindness" and cannot remember what you just spent the last eight hours doing.
I hated ticking time trackers, so I built SheepCat a gentle, 100% local, offline-first Python tool. You just dump your messy, typo-filled thoughts into it throughout the day without breaking your flow state. At the end of the day, it uses Ollama to translate that raw brain-dump into a clean, professional corporate update.
We just pushed v1.2.1, and here is what’s new:
🧠 Zero-Friction UI: We completely redesigned the top-level navigation and added inline task entry right on the home screen. The goal of this tool is cognitive ergonomics; logging a thought should take exactly zero mental effort.
🤖 The Meta CI/CD Pipeline: I got so tired of the anxiety of manual self-promotion that I actually built a GitHub Action to automatically publish release notes directly to Bluesky via their AT Protocol. If my dev logs are automated, my marketing should be too.
🧹 Cleaned Up Issue Tracker: We overhauled the GitHub Issue templates and finally set up GitHub Discussions. No more debating prompt engineering and Jira workflows in the bug tracker!
🏁 The "First to the Flag" Hall of Fame
One of the hardest parts of building open-source is keeping the momentum going. To celebrate the people who keep the late-night coding sessions fueled, I built a permanent "About Us" screen into the app with a hardcoded Hall of Fame.
A massive shoutout to Vivian Oliveres, our absolute first Buy Me a Coffee supporter, whose name is now permanently baked into the SheepCat source code. 💜
(There is currently one empty spot left on that screen for the very first GitHub Sponsor... just throwing that out there into the universe! 👀)
If you struggle with time blindness, or just want a private, cloud-free buffer between your messy brain and your project manager, I would love for you to try it out.
You can grab the v1.2.1 release and check out the code here
Let me know what you think of the new UI!
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