When I left my computer for awhile, I'm now getting infinite "You were away 17 minutes. Add time to current file?"
It's possible that it's not infinite and I just have THAT many files open, but gah. I have to uninstall this plugin for now. Let me know when it's fixed!
Great idea for a plugin, but it made my Sublime Text 2 install unusably slow. I'm not sure what could be doing that - the fact the developer suggested installing bind to cache DNS requests makes me think it checks in with the site very often and I have a poor internet connection where I am right now.
Do you have a bug tracker? When I left my computer for awhile, I'm now getting infinite "You were away 17 minutes. Add time to current file?" It's possible that it's not infinite and I just have THAT many files open, but gah. I have to uninstall this plugin for now. Let me know when it's fixed!
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…
FWIW, it's not entirely default bootstrap - that's the simplex theme, I think. Hrm... no ref to that in the source, and maybe it's been changed since your post. it's 99% default, but looks good enough to get rolling with. I used the 'flatly' theme for http://appliedto.com, which was 'default bootstrap but a free theme' and it's been fine for the people I've showed it to so far, but may eventually spruce things up a bit more.
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.
I would like to know your thoughts about using Codeivate. Also what other time tracking app do you use?
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…
The dev sent me a link to this last week. Told him the same thing about going over the wire. The difference is, I think that plenty of startups and other size companies that already have their mail and tasks and bugs and code outside of their firewall (or NAT) won't mind this.
The wire problem that exists for me, is that I am not going to use any new services that put my private personal data on someone else's server. My business data is less private since I share that data with other people constantly.
some portion of my project time is while in an text editor. some portion is not. and use a variety of editors and tools. so if it only captures a narrow subset of my actual spent project time, it's not a net-win for me personally. easier to start/stop a stopwatch of some kind. since that's out-of-band, it's automatically inclusive of all activities, whether an editor involved or not. reading time counts, thinking tim…
Would a day planner view solve this? That view would show you blocks of time for the day so you could see when you started working and when you stopped working without worrying about the meetings or breaks in the middle.
I think the MUT (minimum useful tool that nails it) would be like a stopwatch app/command, that also lets you specify what project (and optionally task within the project) is being started/paused/resumed/completed. Then it can show you total breakdowns by project, task, etc. In a completely private and local way. In a terminal. With GUI only as an optional bonus. This may already exist and I just am ignorant of it. Seems like an "old" problem that should have been solved by now and I just haven't stumbled upon it. I could write it I guess. But yeah, I don't want a desktop GUI or web app, by default. Give me a CLI in a Terminal. With text, I can then have lots of easy/obvious ways to slice and dice that, script it, etc.