Show HN: Track time spent on activities that matter to you
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Show HN: Track time spent on activities that matter to you
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#2I used to think I was working hard until I began tracking my focused work time, excluding trivial tasks like emails. I was surprised to find I averaged only 40-50 hours a week. My goal is to maintain a consistent 60.
I created a web app with a stopwatch and a bar chart log. Start the stopwatch when working and pause for breaks.
Here's an example of how my friend, Sam, has been using the app: www.countthehours.app/u/samdarmali
Hope you guys find it helpful!
Re: Show HN: Track time spent on activities that matter to you
#3I used to think I was working hard until I began tracking my focused work time, excluding trivial tasks like emails. I was surprised to find I averaged only 40-50 hours a week. My goal is to maintain a consistent 60. I created a web app with a stopwatch and a bar chart log. Start the stopwatch when working and pause for breaks. Here's an example of how my friend, Sam, has been using the app: www.countthehours.app/u/s…
For what its worth I think the premise of a webapp-only time tracking application is flawed. Around 40% of my "focused work time" is done in places where an internet connection is not available. How am I supposed to track that time?
Even if your app works "offline" (IE, I have the page loaded in my mobile browser and it works even when device has no internet) having to open the web browser on my mobile device to track those tasks is a pain.
Similar to calendaring, recording audio-notes to self, task tracking, note taking, and health tracking, time tracking is something that I think needs a dedicated mobile application that works offline but can then sync to a webservice when it does have a connection.
It does not necessarily need all the same features, but you are making a lot of assumptions about how people get work done if the premise of your time tracking application is that it requires a desktop/laptop and an internet connection.
Re: Show HN: Track time spent on activities that matter to you
#4I used to think I was working hard until I began tracking my focused work time, excluding trivial tasks like emails. I was surprised to find I averaged only 40-50 hours a week. My goal is to maintain a consistent 60. I created a web app with a stopwatch and a bar chart log. Start the stopwatch when working and pause for breaks. Here's an example of how my friend, Sam, has been using the app: www.countthehours.app/u/s…
For what its worth I think the premise of a webapp-only time tracking application is flawed. Around 40% of my "focused work time" is done in places where an internet connection is not available. How am I supposed to track that time? Even if your app works "offline" (IE, I have the page loaded in my mobile browser and it works even when device has no internet) having to open the web browser on my mobile device to trac…
Have you considered that if your trackable focus time is mostly offline, you’re not the intended user?
Re: Show HN: Track time spent on activities that matter to you
#5Earlier quoted context omitted.
For what its worth I think the premise of a webapp-only time tracking application is flawed. Around 40% of my "focused work time" is done in places where an internet connection is not available. How am I supposed to track that time? Even if your app works "offline" (IE, I have the page loaded in my mobile browser and it works even when device has no internet) having to open the web browser on my mobile device to trac…
Have you considered that if your trackable focus time is mostly offline, you’re not the intended user?
My trackable focus time is not 'mostly offline', but thats besides the point.
And you are probably right, but thats like saying that if you are blind or deaf your not the intended user. More often then not people don't get to choose whether or not they have access to the internet. Its an accessibility issue. Excluding users for things that are outside of their control is not right.
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#6For me, if it need to manually tracked then I will absolutely forget or stop using it because too lazy. Unless you need to track for getting paid or something important.
The website looks clean though, good work!
If you only want to track what are you doing in your laptop or PC, I recommend activitywatch [1], it can detect when AFK and what app or web we open. I only run and forget it and check it later when I want to know what I'm doing this week/month. It's open source and I'm not affiliated with it, just a happy user.
Re: Show HN: Track time spent on activities that matter to you
#7For me, if it need to manually tracked then I will absolutely forget or stop using it because too lazy. Unless you need to track for getting paid or something important. The website looks clean though, good work! If you only want to track what are you doing in your laptop or PC, I recommend activitywatch [1], it can detect when AFK and what app or web we open. I only run and forget it and check it later when I want t…
It is a nice website, but I agree with you.
It reminds me of the thinking that a smart home is one that you can turn the lights on or off with a web app or smart assistant. In reality, the most pleasant implementations do something like use motion sensors or wifi/Bluetooth to avoid having to even open the app for the automations to kick in.
E.g.: detecting when no one is connected to the home wifi and locking the doors might be more useful than having the option to remotely do it since there is no need to remember.
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#8There are a few window tracking apps that will track and allocate your time. Phones have them too.
I discovered that while tracking the time is helpful and enlightening the big change for me, going from using my phone 4 hours a day to 80 minutes was when I messaged a group of others who would share their weekly stats.
Girls I know spend 7 hours a day on their phones. Weekly reports tell me this. There is no shame. No insults. Just silently sharing.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have you considered that if your trackable focus time is mostly offline, you’re not the intended user?
My trackable focus time is not 'mostly offline', but thats besides the point. And you are probably right, but thats like saying that if you are blind or deaf your not the intended user. More often then not people don't get to choose whether or not they have access to the internet. Its an accessibility issue. Excluding users for things that are outside of their control is not right.
I'm sorry but a) no it is not the same thing as being deaf or blind. A currently Internet-less person can at some point have Internet. In fact, it is probably the case that most people who don't have Internet at any particular moment, will have Internet at some later point. Deaf and blind people do not typically become able to hear or sighted suddenly. b) The idea that not specifically creating a solution for someone in a particular condition is the same as actively excluding them, as you seem to imply by your axiological "it's not right" judgment, is incorrect. By your logic, making any tool for anything at all, so long as it has any dependency whatsoever, excludes all people who don't have those prerequisites, which, again according to you, "is not right". This would mean that even a tool which worked offline "wouldn't be right" since it excluded people without computers, smartphones, etc.
Re: Show HN: Track time spent on activities that matter to you
#10I have been using this app for some months, it’s called "Simple Time Tracker" [0]. It has all kinds of visuals, stats, and it's FOSS. It also has backup capabilities. Highly recommend it for tracking time.
[0]: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.razeeman.util.simpletime...