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

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Post by ivm »

harlanlewis wrote: post #97
ivm wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Your first comment in the thread was a near-perfect match of how I see the time tracking space. Will definitely hit the free trial. Very interested to see how it progresses. Great to hear you're considering data export. I'd love to display time usage in a tool like Gyroscope ( https://gyrosco.pe/ ), which already integrates with RescueTime and a variety of other activity-specific trackers. Visualizations and stats in…

Thank you for the tip, I will see how we can integrate it with Gyroscope.

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

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Post by ivm »

primitivesuave wrote: post #148
ivm wrote: post #2

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 a really nice app. I work with kids (age 8 - 18) and they seem to be the most unaware of the enormous amounts of computer time eaten up by games and trivial activities. I'll definitely be sharing this with them! I was able to figure out all the features simply by experimentation, but a tour might be helpful to guide through the process of adding a new category/website/app. There are obviously going to be nich…

Thank you! The top priorities (after fixing small issues) are custom window/URL matching and then data exporting.

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

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Post by ivm »

cheapsteak wrote: post #155
ivm wrote: post #36

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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?

You can categorize any activity in the table in the Details tab and it will remain in this category.

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

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Post by jish »

ivm wrote: post #63
botreats wrote: post #58

I like the idea of this a lot, but not working with Firefox is a dealbreaker. If only 100% of my time spent in Firefox was actually productive....

Firefox does not report URL to OS X accessibility. I'm going to file a bug or even dig into the sources later.

When I first downloaded the app, it was actually tracking my Firefox usage somehow (github.com, news.ycombinator.com).

Unfortunately I restarted soon afterwards, and now all of the Firefox usage just shows up as "Neutral" =/

But it was working nicely at first :)

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

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Post by toomuchtodo »

adidalal wrote: post #158
tehno wrote: post #125

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> $ 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)

Thank you!

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

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Post by kentt »

ivm wrote: post #160
Sean1708 wrote: post #139

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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...

I would guess that most people don't. I certainly wouldn't feel confident.
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