Pukuku
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How it works

Three clues and your word. Nothing else.

Pukuku takes a few things your phone notices anyway, weighs them over the day and draws your day from them. If they leave something open, it asks you.

From the sharpest clue to the final say

1

A desk beacon

Optional · for any fixed desk

A small Bluetooth beacon on your desk. Your phone notices when you sit down and when you step away, the thrifty way, without scanning over and over.

Decides the start, every break and the end
2

Your places

Work and Home, pinned once

Your phone tells Pukuku when you arrive at or leave one of your places. Pukuku keeps the fact, "arrived at work", never a trail of where you've been.

Decides the start and end at work, and whether you're home
3

How you're moving

Walking, still or in a vehicle

It pins down the moment you really arrived or left, and tells a drive to a customer apart from a break. Phones sometimes go quiet for a while, so this clue never decides on its own.

Sharpens when you came and went, and spots travel
4

Your word

Start work, Done, Work again, a short answer

Exact the moment you tap. Give the same answer five times, and Pukuku stops asking: it fills the answer in for you and marks it as assumed.

Always wins over anything Pukuku worked out
Two rules it never breaks

Being there isn't working.
Being away isn't a break.

You spend your evenings at home too, and leaving the office might just mean a meeting across the road. So no single clue is ever the answer. Pukuku looks at what came before and after, and how long it lasted.

Follows where you go

Each place brings its own rules.

You never switch modes. A morning at your desk at home and an afternoon at the office are simply two parts of one day, and each is read the way that place should be.

At home, with a desk beacon

StartYou sit down at your desk on a working day
BreakAway from the desk for 15 minutes or more, then back
EndAway from the desk for 90 minutes with no return

At home, without one

StartStart work, or the morning question
BreakLeaving home and coming back, or your usual break once Pukuku knows it
EndDone, or the evening question

At work

StartArriving and settling in
BreakLeaving and coming back 15 to 90 minutes later
EndLeaving and not coming back

On a campus

StartSame as at work
BetweenWalking between your buildings counts as work
EndLeaving the last building and not coming back
Asks when unsure

One short question beats a wrong answer.

Pukuku only suggests a time when it has a reason: a habit it learned or something it noticed. Otherwise it lets you pick. You can undo every answer, and each one teaches Pukuku, so the same question comes up less and less.

Pukuku · 17:52
Did you finish at about 17:40? You left work then. That's about when you usually finish.
YesChoose end
Pukuku · 09:30
Working from home today?
Started at 08:40Choose startNot today
Learns on your phone

Your habits become your rules.

Pukuku learns your habits from your own answers and fixes, right on your phone, and uses them to read your next days.

Your usual break After three answers, a home day that runs through your usual break gets it added, striped and marked as assumed.
Your usual end Questions suggest the time you normally stop, and a day left open ends there.
Your home days The days you work from home, so the morning question only comes when it helps.
Undo, always Every tap, answer and edit is one step you can take back, without touching anything else.
What we measure ourselves against

Targets, not promises.

These are the goals we build and test Pukuku against in the pilot. We'll only call them results once the pilot shows them in ordinary weeks.

95 %of workdays with no tapsTarget
1correction a week, at most, for a typical userTarget
1 %of battery a day, at most, for a typical phoneTarget
0location history storedBy design
0accounts neededBy design
0internet needed for your daysBy design

Try it on your own days.

In the pilot, these rules meet real weeks.

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