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Show HN: Automatic private time tracking for OS X
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#82I'm very happy with the icon in the dock!
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#83If you're a consultant or you work in a consulting firm I have some advice for you.
Get comfortable with fudging the numbers on your time reports. It's ok. Report what's reasonable given:
You aren't being paid for your minutes you're being paid for the ability to solve a customer's problem in minutes.
I bill my clients 40 no matter what because sometimes I give them 100 hours worth of value in 1 hour. It all balances out. It took a while to realize this wasn't an integrity violation.
You aren't a machine resource. You're a human working in immense complexity. Your productivity is a roller coaster. It's ok. Don't sell minutes. In reality your customer can't handle the unpredictablity in billable hours if you were exacting and billed what you're actually worth. Instead we smooth it into 40 (or whatever), and that's ok.
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#84Does 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.
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#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
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).
Added price to the site, thanks. It's 25% off currently, I'm going to raise the price in July.
Just something to consider. I wouldn't mention when you're planning on increasing the price. Just that the price is going to go up "soon". Now I know I have a whole month to put off buying it and may forget about it in that time period.
That being said, I'll be buying it. It's a great app and well worth the price.
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#86Away from the keyboard or watching a movie? Idle time is detected intelligently. Problem is it heavily depends on the person what is really idling. Ideally you should be able to read the mind to see if there's any work-related activity :] I'm still using manual time tracking mainly because of this (even despite the obvious disadvantage of forgetting to turn it on or off): there's all kinds of solutions like detecting…
You can set idle per-category. "Videos & TV" category is idle by default.
So if you have Youtube open and there's no mouse/keyboard input then Qbserve assumes you're watching a video.
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#87I 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…
You've hit several good points here! This looks really cool. I've never used something like this, but I'm seriously considering buying it. I love the single price up front and the privacy of not sending my tracking data to some unknown server on the internet.
My only complaint is that I absolutely hate the name. I don't even know how to pronounce it. "Cube-serv?" "Queue Observe?" Don't make me think. Also, I'd be embarrassed to try to say the word to someone else when telling them about it. "Looks like a really cool app! What's it called?" "Oh, it's um... Q... Uh... Cube..., uh I don't know. I have to go." And even if I could pronounce it, trying to spell it for someone so they can look it up. Ugh. Forget about it.
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#88Early impressions are excellent. I can easily see some billable/reporting functionality added as premium features. I'll be adding this to my daily routine and seeing how it works for the trial period - but you likely have a paid user in me already. Thank you!
Thank you, I think there's enough data collected to produce invoices for clients, we just need to decide how to organize per-client activity management in the UI.
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#89This looks like exactly what I need, I'm going to try the free trial and then let you know what I think and probably buy it.
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#90I 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…
Do you have a timeline for Firefox site tracking? I'd definitely buy this to replace RescueTime if it supported Firefox