Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Show HN: Track time spent on activities that matter to you

countthehours.app

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

11–15 of 15 posts

Re: Show HN: Track time spent on activities that matter to you

#11

Post by gibdu »

sleey wrote: post #6

For me, if it need to manually tracked then I will absolutely forget or stop using it because too lazy. Unless you need to track for getting paid or something important. The website looks clean though, good work! If you only want to track what are you doing in your laptop or PC, I recommend activitywatch [1], it can detect when AFK and what app or web we open. I only run and forget it and check it later when I want t…

Thank you very much for recommending Activitywatch; this seems like something that would be helpful to me. If it works, it will reduce the time I need for project reports etc.

Re: Show HN: Track time spent on activities that matter to you

#12

Post by j7ake »

I had a similar tracker set up using orgmode eMacs.

The most difficult part was that I needed a device to input my data, which was bad for a lot of my offline activities.

Ideally I would want a watch that can predict what I am doing and automatically guess. It would then fill in all the details and just ask me to review at the end of each day.

Training can be done both supervised and unsupervised, ie for supervised you explicitly tell watch “I am now working out”, and it would learn. Unsupervised is at the end of day, watch segments activity into discrete activities then asks you whether it segmented correctly, and assign label to segmented activity.

If it is Apple Watch, you can additionally leverage more information by figuring which apps I have open on my phone or computer.

Re: Show HN: Track time spent on activities that matter to you

#13

Post by 9_weslay »

j7ake wrote: post #12

I had a similar tracker set up using orgmode eMacs. The most difficult part was that I needed a device to input my data, which was bad for a lot of my offline activities. Ideally I would want a watch that can predict what I am doing and automatically guess. It would then fill in all the details and just ask me to review at the end of each day. Training can be done both supervised and unsupervised, ie for supervised y…

Thanks. Agree that that would be great. But I feel that the complexity and the unpredictability of that additional step outweighs its benefits. What if a user doesn't have an Apple watch? I am sure there are workarounds but the fact that that is even a question a user has to ask already reflects some additional complexity.

Re: Show HN: Track time spent on activities that matter to you

#14

Post by j6zauas4gz »

xwowsersx wrote: post #9
j6zauas4gz wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My trackable focus time is not 'mostly offline', but thats besides the point. And you are probably right, but thats like saying that if you are blind or deaf your not the intended user. More often then not people don't get to choose whether or not they have access to the internet. Its an accessibility issue. Excluding users for things that are outside of their control is not right.

I'm sorry but a) no it is not the same thing as being deaf or blind. A currently Internet-less person can at some point have Internet. In fact, it is probably the case that most people who don't have Internet at any particular moment, will have Internet at some later point. Deaf and blind people do not typically become able to hear or sighted suddenly. b) The idea that not specifically creating a solution for someone…

Your points are well made and well articulated, but I nevertheless disagree. Of course access to the internet is not the same as deafness/blindness, but I never said it was. its similar in that is an accessibility issue.

There are obviously accommodations and functionalities that are unreasonable to implant when it comes to accommodating accessibility issues. But offline functionality is not one of them, not for time tracking.

Re: Show HN: Track time spent on activities that matter to you

#15

Post by j7ake »

9_weslay wrote: post #13
j7ake wrote: post #12

I had a similar tracker set up using orgmode eMacs. The most difficult part was that I needed a device to input my data, which was bad for a lot of my offline activities. Ideally I would want a watch that can predict what I am doing and automatically guess. It would then fill in all the details and just ask me to review at the end of each day. Training can be done both supervised and unsupervised, ie for supervised y…

Thanks. Agree that that would be great. But I feel that the complexity and the unpredictability of that additional step outweighs its benefits. What if a user doesn't have an Apple watch? I am sure there are workarounds but the fact that that is even a question a user has to ask already reflects some additional complexity.

Yeah what I proposed is several phds worth of work, not thinking practically at all.
Post reply on HN