Action Tracker

Action Tracker logs the small, repeated things you need to keep track of — things you do a lot, but don’t necessarily do at exactly the same time each day, like “did I feed the cat?” “did I take my as-needed allergy pill?” — using a bookmarkable link. Tap the link, it’s logged, done.

The basic idea

  1. Create an action — give it a name, like “Fed the cat.” You get a unique URL, e.g. https://done.sharpend.org/do/u155s4f1.
  2. Bookmark it — save it to your phone’s home screen, browser bookmarks, put it in an email, whatever.
  3. Tap it when you do the thing — the visit is timestamped and logged. You’ll see a confirmation screen.
  4. Check the history — from your dashboard, view every time an action was logged, in order, with who logged it.

No app to install, no login required just to log an action — anyone with the link can tap it. You only need to log in to create actions, view history, or manage sharing.

Use case: Feeding the cat

You feed the cat once a day, but you and your partner both do it depending on who’s around, and you’d like to stop asking “wait, did anyone feed her yet?”

  1. Create an action called “Fed the cat.”
  2. Put the bookmark on both of your phones’ home screens.
  3. Whoever feeds the cat taps it. No login needed for this step — but if you are logged in, the app will remember who did it. Logins last more than a day, so if you do it every day, you won’t need to log in every time.
  4. Check the history to see who fed the cat and when — the log shows “You,” your partner’s name, or “Anonymous” if someone taps it without logging in.
  5. If you go on vacation and have a neighbor feed the cat, just email the link to the neighbor. They don’t need to create an account, just tap the link to register that the cat’s been fed (if they want to create an account, they are certainly welcome to!)

If you want the history to be visible to your partner, then share the action with them (see Sharing below).

Use case: Tracking your OTC medication

You take an over-the-counter medication like an allergy pill “as needed” and want a record of when you took it. This can be useful to know if you can take it again yet, or to have a record to share with your doctor of just how many days you’ve needed it.

  1. Create an action called “Took allergy med.”
  2. Bookmark it on your phone.
  3. Tap it each time you take a dose.
  4. Later, open the history: every entry shows date and time in your local timezone.
  5. Made a mistake — logged it twice, or at the wrong time? You can edit the date/time of any entry you own, or delete one, right from the history page. Corrections are kept in an internal audit trail (not shown to you, but preserved for accuracy).

This one you’ll likely keep private — no need to share it with anyone.

Sharing and Groups

Some actions are useful to track alone (your meds); others make sense to share with specific people (pet tasks, household chores, caring for a parent). Two ways to share access to the history:

Share with an individual

From an action’s menu, add a person by their exact email address. They’ll see the action on their own dashboard, in a separate “Shared with you” section, and can log it and view its history — but can’t rename, delete, or edit log entries (only the owner can do that).

Share with a group

If you regularly share actions with the same set of people (e.g., your whole family), create a group instead of adding people one by one:

  1. Create a group and give it a name (e.g., “Family”).
  2. Have all family members create accounts.
  3. Add members by their exact email address. For privacy reasons, the app will only find exact matches.
  4. Share any action with the group — everyone in it gets immediate access to view the action’s history and to log new actions.

Groups stay in sync with sharing: add someone to the group and they instantly gain access to everything shared with it; remove them and access is revoked immediately. Delete the group and all sharing through it goes away. You can also share the same action with multiple groups and individuals at once.

Only the group’s creator can manage it (rename, add/remove members, delete). Revoking someone’s access doesn’t erase what they already logged — their past entries stay in the history, correctly attributed.

A note on iOS

Adding the confirmation page to your iPhone’s home screen requires visiting it once first (which logs one entry) — this is a limitation of iOS itself, not something Action Tracker can bypass. After that first tap, it works like a normal home screen shortcut.