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Re: Show HN: Automatic private time tracking for OS X

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Does the license allow use on multiple computers? I have a computer for heavy work, and another where I do email and social media. I'd like to track both.

Yes, up to 5 machines for the personal/family use.

Great, I'm doing the trial now and very likely to buy.

Also, thanks for the Focus app recommendation elsewhere in the thread. I had been looking for exactly such a native app.

Re: Show HN: Automatic private time tracking for OS X

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I was not happy with features and UX of other productivity trackers. Most of the time tracking software is made for controlling employees or for billing clients and I just wanted an automated productivity measurement. I tried RescueTime before but it was too expensive for its functionality ($72-108/year) and also collected all my tracked data on their servers. There is standalone ManicTime on Windows but OS X standal…

Hey!

Tried it out, bought a copy :)

The thing i'm noticing most (and i can hack around this probably) is that there are some things that are productive in certain contexts (monitoring twitter after launching/announcing a thing) and not in others not (twtittering while i'm supposed to be writing code, or letting myself get distracted by twitter while waiting for something to build).

Would you consider some notion of rule sets scoped to some notion of "what i'm supposed to be doing"?

Re: Show HN: Automatic private time tracking for OS X

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I was not happy with features and UX of other productivity trackers. Most of the time tracking software is made for controlling employees or for billing clients and I just wanted an automated productivity measurement. I tried RescueTime before but it was too expensive for its functionality ($72-108/year) and also collected all my tracked data on their servers. There is standalone ManicTime on Windows but OS X standal…

I'd buy it right now if I could buy it through the Mac App Store - I have a bunch of credit there.

Re: Show HN: Automatic private time tracking for OS X

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, I got many requests for iTerm2 tracking and it will be definitely added. I'm looking into the available options, so thank you for the link!

Any chance of tracking Terminal.app?

Sure, I will check it too.

Re: Show HN: Automatic private time tracking for OS X

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I was not happy with features and UX of other productivity trackers. Most of the time tracking software is made for controlling employees or for billing clients and I just wanted an automated productivity measurement. I tried RescueTime before but it was too expensive for its functionality ($72-108/year) and also collected all my tracked data on their servers. There is standalone ManicTime on Windows but OS X standal…

> $ brew cask info qbserve > Error: No available Cask for qbserve

Would be nice if you'd do a PR to get your app into Homebrew. It's just much easier to find, install and update apps with Cask.

Re: Show HN: Automatic private time tracking for OS X

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I was not happy with features and UX of other productivity trackers. Most of the time tracking software is made for controlling employees or for billing clients and I just wanted an automated productivity measurement. I tried RescueTime before but it was too expensive for its functionality ($72-108/year) and also collected all my tracked data on their servers. There is standalone ManicTime on Windows but OS X standal…

Hey! Tried it out, bought a copy :) The thing i'm noticing most (and i can hack around this probably) is that there are some things that are productive in certain contexts (monitoring twitter after launching/announcing a thing) and not in others not (twtittering while i'm supposed to be writing code, or letting myself get distracted by twitter while waiting for something to build). Would you consider some notion of r…

Thank you!

It will be hard to implement since the "smallest tracking unit" is activity - a website or a window. I also can't see how to implement it without making everything too complex (the app's UX is too complex already in my opinion).

You can try to use a different browser since domains are bound to browsers. Like using productive Twitter in Safari and distracting Twitter in Opera.

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I was not happy with features and UX of other productivity trackers. Most of the time tracking software is made for controlling employees or for billing clients and I just wanted an automated productivity measurement. I tried RescueTime before but it was too expensive for its functionality ($72-108/year) and also collected all my tracked data on their servers. There is standalone ManicTime on Windows but OS X standal…

I'd buy it right now if I could buy it through the Mac App Store - I have a bunch of credit there.

Sorry, it's not working in a sandboxed environment that is a must for the Mac App Store.

Re: Show HN: Automatic private time tracking for OS X

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Hi. Trying it out and would happily buy after using it for the next few days. One query I have: Is there any way I can hide the app icon from the cmd+tab list? I want the ability for it to stay and works quietly behind the scene and since I have too many applications running on at the same time. Maybe a "hide icon" or some other thing? Thanks. Looks like a fantastic product on first look. :)

To remove the icon from your cmd+tab: open the preferences/settings for the application and under "Application Options" use the multi-select field from "Both" to "Only Menu Bar", then restart the app. The icon won't be in your dock or cmd+tab anymore, but lives in the menu bar :)

Re: Show HN: Automatic private time tracking for OS X

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I think I'm going to add custom filters to solve this and probably iTerm tracking.

I don't know if it would be possible, but if you could add referer tracking as well... somehow... For example a link I clicked from hacker news is almost certainly distracting.

Yes, StayFocusd does it this but it's a browser extension. I can build one for Qbserve but right now it's not a priority, sorry. Added it to possible features though, thank you.
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