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

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It was started before Swift become more or less mature, so the whole codebase is in Objective-C.

Sounds like no plans for Windows platform? (I'm a multiple platform user.)

Sorry, no, it will require complete re-write and the app also heavily relies on OS X accessibility.

But I remember using ManicTime on Windows, give it a try maybe.

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

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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.

I'm editing a WordPress template at the moment, the application only logs the file name and not the Sublime project name [0] (even though this appears in the Sublime title bar and app window as file.php - Project Name). The project name (blurred) only shows up in Qbserve on an untitled new window. Possible bug? [0] http://i.imgur.com/qxE06nC.jpg

Could be a problem with how ST reports its project names to the system. I'll take a look soon, sorry about that.

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

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This looks like it would be very useful to me. A pet peeve of mine is when an application does not use a monochrome icon in the menu bar. I don't suppose you could offer a monochrome option for the percentage, turning it the same colour as the icon?

You can disable the colors in the settings tab. It should work both for classic and dark menu bar styles.

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 put the price on your website and not click on a button to buy/try before finding out the price. Also I’d “raise the price” and offer a launch special discount (or not raise the price and do the same).

I'm getting very long loading times and still can't see the page. Please fix because I would like to use this application.

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

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This looks like a great tool. Im testing it out now. I regularly use multiple computers for personal/work. Can there be a way to cross sync data across systems using an external host? I'd like to use Dropbox or some similar solution to keep the data files up to date. Would that be possible?

Sorry, right now it's not possible. I would like to add synchronization some day but it's a bit far on the todo list.
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