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I hope I can convince Firefox team to report page URLs to OS X accessibility. Or maybe I will try to commit it myself.
Do you have a issue or feature request open? I'd be happy to add a plus one:-)
Not yet, sorry.
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#152The UI is so much nicer than RescueTime, I love it!
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We're not hidden, I just failed to create "About" page somewhere.
hard to believe,but in a sense, maybe you did this work while employed by someone else and you try to hide this. If this is the case, just wanted to learn why is important to hide it. Until when?
I'm not hiding, you can find us by company name easily. ;)
"About" page will be added later.
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#154I really like the UI. Is it possible to implement keyboard/mouse movement activity tracking? I don't mean keylogging or anything, but something like key presses per minute while an app is focused or mouse movement in pixels per minute while an app in focused.
Thanks for the idea! It should be possible since the app has accessibility access.
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#155Some 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…
Thank you, I fixed the price. > 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! Mostly the ones from top 10k Alexa but all the unrecognized can be categorized easily.
> Can I determine which things are productive/neutral/distractive?
I was wondering this as well, could you add this on the roadmap if it's not already doable?
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#156Minor UI feedback: The settings UI is extremely hard to read on my screen. The headings are light grey on white, and no amount of messing with my screen's contrast settings leaves something easy to read. The checkboxes also immediately convey "disabled" due to their coloring. Your UI in general is spot on and sanely designed, but please consider taking a cue from the OSX HIG[1] and use the system colors and leave the…
Got it, sorry. We'll update the colors. We try to follow HIG despite building a custom look, so non-blue checkboxes is a mistake.
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Currently the differences are window tracking (RT only tracks apps afaik), chat tracking, instant feedback, and keeping the tracked data on your machine. Downsides compared to RT: no sync between devices (and it's not coming soon), no "offline time" (but it's temporary).
Thanks for this info, but I don't know what you mean by "instant feedback" and "chat tracking". Rescuetime does allow window tracking (unless I don't understand what that means). For me personally, the most essential Rescuetime features missing in your app are: - ability to install a client on gnu, OS X and Windows. - 95% of the time, it correctly categorizes my activities, requiring very little input from me. Lookin…
Instant feedback: to see your productivity in RT you need to go to its dashboard. Qbserve shows productivity score in the dock icon (with color) and in the menu bar (colors + percents).
Chat tracking: Qbserve can look into Skype, Slack and Telegram Messenger apps and track your chat/team names as separate activities.
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#158I 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…
> $ brew cask info qbserve > Error: No available Cask for qbserve Would be nice if you'd do a PR to get your app into Homebrew. It's just much easier to find, install and update apps with Cask.
Just added to Homebrew Cask, feel free to `brew cask install qbserve`
(I'm one of the maintainers of Homebrew Cask)
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#159I 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 added a category and it shows up in categories but not in the dropdown menu for a specific activity? OS X 10.10.5
There are actually 3 dropdown menus based on productivity selection. So if you've added a productive category, select "Productive" tab first and then it will appear in the dropdown.
If it's missing from there then it's probably a bug.
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Haha, yes, we had some doubts about the name's UX but nothing better was found. It's cube-serve in my opinion, an observing cube. Well, I'm not a native English speaker... :)
You could make the IPA form (kjuːb-sɜːv) part of the logo design, I always think that looks pretty cool.
:D Sounds interesting but I don't know how many users know how to read this...