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

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Love the idea! Only suggestion would to be switch "Distractive" to "Unproductive" or "Distracting." I'm sure distractive is technically a word, but this is my first time hearing it. But that's just me. I may just have a limited vocabulary.

Oh, right, thank you. I've already updated it in the app but forgot the screenshots and texts.

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

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this is super awesome. I've been using rescuetime for around two years, and although it's worked great I'd love to see more feature progress. Also there's no 2FA support which is quite scary for something with such sensitive data. I love your dock icon as well. I was trying to build a custom version of that but for my tmux line, but rescuetime's API doesn't provide realtime info. Will you open up some APIs for the da…

Thank you! I'm researching what will be the best way to export data and connect to other apps (IFTTT probably). In case somebody would like to export the tracked information: it's stored in SQLite in the ~/Library/Application\ Support/Qbserve/ and has a very simple scheme of HistoryLog tables for each month that refer to Activities table that refer to Categories and Apps tables.

thanks! that's easy enough :D

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…

this is super awesome. I've been using rescuetime for around two years, and although it's worked great I'd love to see more feature progress. Also there's no 2FA support which is quite scary for something with such sensitive data. I love your dock icon as well. I was trying to build a custom version of that but for my tmux line, but rescuetime's API doesn't provide realtime info. Will you open up some APIs for the da…

Second this. As you seem to focus on software developers as your target audience it would likely be greatly appreciated with an official open dataset and structure thus enabling us to use the data in a much more intelligent way highly specialized for personal workflow.

A built in console/scripting engine would also be a nice to have but not necessary if the data can be exported/extracted.

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

#14

This looks like a simple way to keep track of time I spend on projects. It would be perfect if it could also log more details such as what filename/project is open in Sublime, that way I know what I'm working on.

It logs app window names: you can select the app in the Details table and there's a popover with the "View windows" button. You can also check to show each window as a separate activity.

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

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Great! The fact that this is private is a huge +1 for me. Looking forward to trying it out! I saw one of your comments on the data being available at ~/Library/Application\ Support/Qbserve/ it would be good if the schema was documented on the site, maybe in a developers section?

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

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Great! The fact that this is private is a huge +1 for me. Looking forward to trying it out! I saw one of your comments on the data being available at ~/Library/Application\ Support/Qbserve/ it would be good if the schema was documented on the site, maybe in a developers section?

Thank you, I'll add it a bit later.

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…

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

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This looks like a simple way to keep track of time I spend on projects. It would be perfect if it could also log more details such as what filename/project is open in Sublime, that way I know what I'm working on.

I second this. This might be too much for this app but I'd really like to be able to track time manually for a project (like toggl.com) and then be able to see the overview for the project at once as opposed to overall view right now.

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

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Some feedback: * Make the price more readily apparent on the landing page * Tracking the '6,400 sites, apps and games' is great, but it would be good if I could find out if the ones I care about in that list! * Make the above the fold screenshot bigger, I tried squinting/zooming before I realised I could scroll down * Can I determine which things are productive/neutral/distractive? As I wouldn't want to buy it if tha…

>Make the price more readily apparent on the landing page

I'm seeing a huge green 'Buy Now — $30' button on the front page. Was this added in the past 20 minutes?

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