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Show HN: My time tracking tool for your text editor

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Re: Show HN: My time tracking tool for your text editor

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Post by basicallydan »

jaxn wrote: post #3

How is this different from http://rescuetime.com (other than only tracking the text editor)?

"other than only tracking the text editor" is the key part there.

It's interested in the files and projects you're working in, I think, so it's a bit more specific to programming.

Re: Show HN: My time tracking tool for your text editor

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Post by ccallebs »

Just some somewhat-constructive feedback: It's always a pet peeve of mine to see the default bootstrap theme on new web apps. It doesn't take a lot of effort to customize it and doing so goes a long way to provide a sense of authority about your application.

I know it doesn't seem like that big of a deal (and for all I know, I could be alone with this sentiment) but it makes a world of difference for me.

That being said -- this looks awesome and I look forward to getting some consulting work to try it out.

Re: Show HN: My time tracking tool for your text editor

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Post by jaxn »

welder wrote: post #6
jaxn wrote: post #3

How is this different from http://rescuetime.com (other than only tracking the text editor)?

Good question. WakaTi.me knows what project your working under while rescuetime.com only knows that your inside your text editor.

That makes sense.

RescueTime gives me information about how much time I spent in each file and is showing me the project as part of that info, but it doesn't rollup time spent in a project.

Still seems of limited use since it wouldn't show me time spent debugging in a browser, working in the database, etc. From a productivity standpoint RescueTime lets me dictate that http://myproject.dev is "debugging" time, Sublime Text is "IDE" time and that Terminal is also "development" time. If I could change how Sublime Text displays info in the title bar then I could probably set it to know that "Sublime Text -> My Project -> file" was time spent in "development/my project".

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