For years, I managed my freelance life with five tools that didn't talk to each other. Important emails in a "todo" folder. Sticky notes on the desk. A spreadsheet for billable hours. A todo app for planning. Google Calendar for appointments.
The problem wasn't a lack of organisation. It was the fragmentation. A client calls - I email myself so I don't forget. The email gets accidentally marked as read. The task disappears.
What goes unwritten disappears. What gets written in five different places disappears too.
The todo app helped for a while. A clear, simple, noise-free view of the schedule. But completed tasks vanished into the void - impossible to find what was done six months ago. And time spent? Still in Excel, in a separate tab.
What I wanted was simple: one place to log a task, link it to a project, add time if needed - and find it all again months later without effort. See my Google Calendar events alongside my tasks, without complex syncing. And when a client asks "what did you do this month?" - have the answer in thirty seconds.
I didn't find that tool. So I built it. Starting from a simple principle: one line of text is enough. You type and it's logged, filed, counted. homepage redesign @client +3h and it's logged, filed, counted.
Odha is opinionated by necessity, not ideology. Every feature I refused to add is one less thing you'd have to manage instead of work.