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Re: Show HN: TimeSnapper for Mac is available now

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post #13

Alternative: ScreenNinja (cheaper I think, $20) http://getscreenninja.com/

An alternative I used to use when I wanted this feature: `while [ 1 ];do vardate=$(date +%d\-%m\-%Y\_%H.%M.%S); screencapture -t jpg -x ~/Desktop/project_name/$vardate.jpg; sleep 10; done`

I’m not at a computer or Mac right now. Would getting different monitors be easy?

ScreenNinja seems to also provide a number of features that would prob take a while to implement if you wanted them

Re: Show HN: TimeSnapper for Mac is available now

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post #9

30 bucks for a screenshot app... 3 bucks I can easily life with, and would instantly grab my wallet without thinking. 10 bucks or 20 bucks even if I would use this often. But 30 is quite steep IMHO

It is a productivity/billings app that happens to use screenshots as a data source.

Re: Show HN: TimeSnapper for Mac is available now

#27
$30 seems kinda high for what it does.

You can do this with cron and the mac screenshot cli. I have been for years. It’s the best way to fill in your time sheet.

I also made a small react app that shows thumbnails and supports zoom and splitting the time with export. Glad to push it to a repo if people want it.

Re: Show HN: TimeSnapper for Mac is available now

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post #27

$30 seems kinda high for what it does. You can do this with cron and the mac screenshot cli. I have been for years. It’s the best way to fill in your time sheet. I also made a small react app that shows thumbnails and supports zoom and splitting the time with export. Glad to push it to a repo if people want it.

Please do!

Re: Show HN: TimeSnapper for Mac is available now

#29
post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Came here expecting to see this as a top-level comment. Really not sure why someone (here on HN) would pay $30 rather than just write a simple script like this.

I could see paying $30 for the options/playback. I'm not sure if `screencapture` gets all the desktops or just the active one or what. Also the playback UI looks nice and is a much better way to check what you were doing and for how long than a directory of images would be. If it was a subscription services I'd be looking for alternatives but one-time purchase? $30 seems reasonable.

Based on the man page it captures the 'screen' for all monitors unless otherwise constrained by options.

Re: Show HN: TimeSnapper for Mac is available now

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post #9

30 bucks for a screenshot app... 3 bucks I can easily life with, and would instantly grab my wallet without thinking. 10 bucks or 20 bucks even if I would use this often. But 30 is quite steep IMHO

It's not a screenshot app.

How is me making a script to take a screenshot of my screen every 5 seconds and then putting them in a folder for each day any different?

The only thing feature I can see from the apps page is that you can play back the screenshots at whatever speed you want, which hardly warrants $30.

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