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.
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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.
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#13I 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…
A built in console/scripting engine would also be a nice to have but not necessary if the data can be exported/extracted.
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#14This 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.
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#16Great! 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?
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#17I 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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#18This 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.
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#20Some 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…
I'm seeing a huge green 'Buy Now — $30' button on the front page. Was this added in the past 20 minutes?