Stop writing timestamps by hand

Feedback on a mix currently arrives as a list: "1:04 kick too loud, 2:15ish vocal is buried, the bridge feels long". Every line in that message costs the person reading it a scrub, a guess, and usually a reply asking which bridge.

Worse, it changes what gets said. When writing each note costs effort, people batch them into vague summaries — "the second half drags" — which is the least actionable form of a real observation. Cheap notes are specific notes.

Across real production use, the notes that show up most are:

• Arrangement. Where a section should start, stop, or lose eight bars. Easiest thing to argue about vaguely and hardest to fix from a summary.
• Balance. The exact moment something masks something else, rather than a blanket "vocals up".
• Performance. A take that drifts, a phrase worth re-cutting, a moment worth keeping exactly as it is.
• Transitions. The joins — where energy drops or a change lands early. Almost always a timing question, so almost always needs a timestamp.
• Ideas. "Try a half-time feel here" is worth far more attached to the bar than in a list at the end.

Producers sending roughs to collaborators, engineers sending mixes to clients, artists collecting notes from a band, and anyone asked for feedback on someone else's track who would rather not write an essay. It works in both directions: mark up your own track to explain what you were going for, or mark up someone else's to say what you'd change.

It is deliberately small. No accounts, no project management, no versioning — one recording, its notes, and a link. If that's not enough for your workflow, it probably isn't the tool for that part of it.