Using WorkingClock on desktop
A native app for Windows, macOS, and Linux built around never having to bring the main window to the front just to start a timer.
The tray icon
Once signed in, WorkingClock lives in your system tray. Click it to start or stop the timer, or open the “Recent projects” submenu to start a new entry against one of your most-used projects without opening the window at all. The tray icon's tooltip shows a live duration while a timer is running.
“Launch at login” is a checkbox in the tray's own menu, not a setting inside the app window — toggle it there if you want the app running as soon as you log in.
The global shortcut
Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + T starts or stops the timer from anywhere on your machine, even while another application is focused — no need to switch to WorkingClock at all.
Reminders work offline
Unlike the server-side reminders that power mobile push notifications, the desktop app evaluates your reminder rules (“no timer running during working hours,” “a timer has been running unusually long”) locally and fires a native OS notification directly, once a minute. This means desktop reminders keep working even without a network connection, but they are specific to the machine the app is running on rather than following you across devices.
Staying up to date
From Settings, “Check for updates” looks for a newer release and lets you install it in place. Updates are not installed automatically in the background — checking is always something you trigger yourself.