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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 wogg »

jaxn wrote: post #8
welder wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Actually, RescueTime does know and report on what file / project you have open inside the text editor, as long as the info is in the window title (which both these apps do). And it's keyword-searchable by whatever is in that data point-- usually filename, project name, directory tree etc. It works this way with just about all text editors.

The key word search method is how people usually accomplish the idea of project reporting-- but is admittedly not perfect, like you could get if we actually could consume that meta data.

However, the "document" level details are only exposed to you in the premium version-- in the free version you just get an open document count, so that is a significant difference.

I've always thought the long term path for an enriched time measurement experience would involve plugins like this one. Great to see someone working on it.

Disclosure: I'm a RescueTime employee.

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

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Post by welder »

diggan wrote: post #22

Tried it out, the search in file went really slow. Also, when I was away, it asked me if I wanted to log the away time. That's fine but opening up dialogs until Sublime crashes, not ok. Will try it out more when/if those two things are fixed.

It's probably slow now because of the HN load.

Right now I don't have a better way to log AFK time besides the dialog. Just to clarify, are you worried about Sublime crashing while you're away?

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

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Post by welder »

eblume wrote: post #20

A really cool idea, but probably not useable by anyone working on proprietary software, I'm afraid. I'd love to use it as a productivity app - particularly if you could segment the data based on the active git branch - but transmitting file information over the wire is a non starter for myself (and I imagine many others). Have you considered maybe supporting output via some sort of graphing language instead? (R sprin…

You can segment by git branch using the "Tags" drop-down. By default the text editor plugin sends the current git branch as a tag.

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

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Post by agentultra »

Cool. I just use org-mode in Emacs which tracks all of my tasks and puts a nice little timer in my status bar. It saves everything in plain-text and I can export it to various formats such as HTML or PDF as needed. I'd take a look at it for inspiration if you're interested.

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

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Post by zachorr »

diggan wrote: post #22

Tried it out, the search in file went really slow. Also, when I was away, it asked me if I wanted to log the away time. That's fine but opening up dialogs until Sublime crashes, not ok. Will try it out more when/if those two things are fixed.

I had the same problem with the search. I had to uninstall for now.

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

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Post by oinksoft »

ccallebs wrote: post #7

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 s…

Water under the bridge here. I think the author has bigger fish to fry: Absence of a logo and a descriptive are bigger issues if we're talking branding.

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

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Post by brbcoding »

Cool idea... It took over my ST2 though. When trying to enter the API key, the console flashed wildly with a couldn't find api key message of sorts. Then, when I finally got the API key to be accepted, I was unable to access package control via ctrl+shift+p. That functionality was replaced with another cmd window that instantly closes. Not sure what the deal is with it, but I'm uninstalling for now.

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

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Post by RodericDay »

canthonytucci wrote: post #17
ccallebs wrote: post #7

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 s…

Doesn't bother me in the least. Bootstrap offers sane defaults and presents users with a familiar experience. If my choices are color/design decisions made by someone who's specialty is something else, or just vanilla bootstrap, I'd encourage the latter.

I agree.
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