I like how qotoqot.com shows up as "productive"
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#192I love the alerts. I setup an alert for when I have been distracted for more than 30 minutes. Could you disable those distracting sites after 30 minutes? I'm only half-way kidding.. Still a fantastic app.
I used to use an app, think it was called orange, to do this. Would love that functionality though to disable top distractions
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#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hey! Tried it out, bought a copy :) The thing i'm noticing most (and i can hack around this probably) is that there are some things that are productive in certain contexts (monitoring twitter after launching/announcing a thing) and not in others not (twtittering while i'm supposed to be writing code, or letting myself get distracted by twitter while waiting for something to build). Would you consider some notion of r…
Thank you! It will be hard to implement since the "smallest tracking unit" is activity - a website or a window. I also can't see how to implement it without making everything too complex (the app's UX is too complex already in my opinion). You can try to use a different browser since domains are bound to browsers. Like using productive Twitter in Safari and distracting Twitter in Opera.
Yeah! I dig it.
So, I honestly wouldn't change anything about the interface, except to wrap the entire thing in an outer shell with something that represents what GTD software might call a context.
And depending on context, different rule sets apply. Anyway, that's just a suggestion, don't mean to stomp on your notion of product, what you've got is a great start and a neat coupling of product experience and interesting engineering!
I especially like the ambient info display in the app icon. Seeing whether the app is bordered in green or blue every time i tab up the app switcher is a great piece of design.
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#194Any possibility of Mavericks support?
Sorry, it's not planned. We would like to support more systems but there are some UI rendering quirks that prevent smooth backwards compatibility.
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#195I 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
I must say, I use FF all the time.
Of course, all my work is on FF tabs, so it's still useful to track distractions.
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#197I use ulogme which also records when you are typing, and is more customizable (and open source and free).
Explanation and demo with screenshots: https://karpathy.github.io/2014/08/03/quantifying-productivi...
Github URL: https://github.com/karpathy/ulogme
There are definitely some good ideas in it for inspiration when making a similar product.
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#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh I get it. Is it supposed to be reading tabs in Safari? Because it really depends on the website whether or not I'm being 'productive'.
Yes, it should show all the domains you used in Safari separately.
Okay, and if it doesn't? I'm using the trial right now.
Re: Show HN: Automatic private time tracking for OS X
#199I use ulogme which also records when you are typing , and is more customizable (and open source and free). Explanation and demo with screenshots: https://karpathy.github.io/2014/08/03/quantifying-productivi... Github URL: https://github.com/karpathy/ulogme There are definitely some good ideas in it for inspiration when making a similar product.
Awesome, thank you. My friend who uses Linux was interested in getting something like Qbserve there.
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#200Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, it should show all the domains you used in Safari separately.
Okay, and if it doesn't? I'm using the trial right now.
Please re-check the accessibility access in the system settings: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH18391
If it still fails to get the tabs, please contact me: https://qotoqot.com/contact/