How does it know if I am doing useful work? If I just leave me vim window on and leave for lunch, will it know I am idle or log the time? Also, opposite scenario, when I am concentrated on something, I basically read the code for a good 30-35 minutes, without typing anything into vim. Can it distinguish it as useful work rather than otherwise?
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
#42Cool idea,
My problem with this type of granular time applications is that they are to granular :)
I don't only work on a project when I'm typing on a text editor. I actually do a lot of thinking before using a editor in fact the actual time I spend in the editor is maybe 60% of the time I work on a project.
So for my case I will have to use it with some other time tracking tool witch is to much of a hasel.
Keep us the good work, I am sure there is a market out there for this.
Re: Show HN: My time tracking tool for your text editor
#43How does it know if I am doing useful work? If I just leave me vim window on and leave for lunch, will it know I am idle or log the time? Also, opposite scenario, when I am concentrated on something, I basically read the code for a good 30-35 minutes, without typing anything into vim. Can it distinguish it as useful work rather than otherwise?
Scenario 1: You leave Vim to read HN for a while.
WakaTime will ask you when you return if you want to log that time to the current file or not. This happens if you're away for > 15 mins.
Scenario 2: You are reading code without editing it for 30 mins.
At wakati.me you can check the "save" checkbox to filter out any files/projects that were not written to. That file where you did not make edits won't be shown on the website.
Re: Show HN: My time tracking tool for your text editor
#44A 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…
Just curious, would you have made the same arguments against RescueTime? It too transmits your activity data (and who knows what else) over the wire. I don't know if you use(d) RescueTime or not, so I don't mean it as an attack against you. I guess I just don't remember these types of arguments being leveled against RescueTime (maybe I'm wrong about that, but a quick search didn't reveal anything) and I'm curious as…
Did I miss something? Where does RescueTime come into this?
And yes, when they launched, people had the same worry about the server. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=80182
"I don't really look forward to any time tracking program that uploads my stats to a server. I guess Google will buy it, if you have success, as they want to know everything about everyone. I don't think anyone would want the government or Google to know your habits so well that they can make a profile for you..."
Re: Show HN: My time tracking tool for your text editor
#45Cool idea, My problem with this type of granular time applications is that they are to granular :) I don't only work on a project when I'm typing on a text editor. I actually do a lot of thinking before using a editor in fact the actual time I spend in the editor is maybe 60% of the time I work on a project. So for my case I will have to use it with some other time tracking tool witch is to much of a hasel. Keep us t…
Yea it's not perfect, but you could just open a file and leave the editor open while you do other things for the project.
Re: Show HN: My time tracking tool for your text editor
#46Tried 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?
No, the whole plugin is slow. When I search for things for example, Sublime is slow. The website is not slow.
And no, I'm not worried about Sublime crashing when I'm away. The dialog that pops up when it asks you to log you time, popped up like a thousands of times and then Sublime crashed.
Re: Show HN: My time tracking tool for your text editor
#47Nice. I signed up for an account and installed the sublime plugin. Is there any way to export data? Even if it's just an API for now.
Re: Show HN: My time tracking tool for your text editor
#48A 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…
Just curious, would you have made the same arguments against RescueTime? It too transmits your activity data (and who knows what else) over the wire. I don't know if you use(d) RescueTime or not, so I don't mean it as an attack against you. I guess I just don't remember these types of arguments being leveled against RescueTime (maybe I'm wrong about that, but a quick search didn't reveal anything) and I'm curious as…
I actually have used RescueTime. I would have probably raised the same concern except that I was using it, at the time, at the encouragement of my employer. If they were fine with it, then so was I.
I haven't continued to use it, but to be honest I haven't given it much thought.
Re: Show HN: My time tracking tool for your text editor
#49Nice. I signed up for an account and installed the sublime plugin. Is there any way to export data? Even if it's just an API for now.
Yes, I have a JSON api that the Backbone.js website uses. To export all of your logged time, just page through this resource:
https://www.wakati.me/api/v1/actions?page=1&show=file,is_wri...
I'll publish api docs soon to make writing your own plugin easier.
Re: Show HN: My time tracking tool for your text editor
#50Does this track time even when the window is unfocused? If possible, it shouldn't: I often leave my editor open but idle even for hours, and this might skew the tracking by counting a lot of time on a file on which I didn't really work for that long.