Comments on: TrackTime: Review & 10 License Giveaway

By: roderick

roderick — Fri, 09 May 2008 09:47:25 +0000

Web site tracktime – tell me when to get off Facebook!

By: TimeSheet Software

TimeSheet Software — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:19:56 +0000

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By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:27:06 +0000

Hi there,

I installed TrackTime a couple of days ago and wondered if anyone else notices a memory leak? It uses around 300MB RAM on my Leopard machine and still growing.

Greetings

By: Colby G.

Colby G. — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:29:41 +0000

Web access to stats would definitely be a good idea.

Top 3: Safari, Mail, Messenger

By: Jack

Jack — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:49:02 +0000

How about color schemes for applications? I’d love to be able to download color schemes made by other users.

By: Michael Mistretta

Michael Mistretta — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 04:35:44 +0000

The giveaway is now over. The winner will be announced in a few days.

By: The Earl of Macintosh

The Earl of Macintosh — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 04:14:46 +0000

I suggest several ideas that have already been mentioned: app/site “tags,” “time budgets” w/ alerts, more stat views/charts, document tracking, and an export function.

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 03:13:09 +0000

How about setting up “budgets” and having the app help you stay on top of them with programmable warnings like Budget 6 hrs/day, 30hrs/week max on browsers. Notify me hourly/daily/etc OR notify me at x% of budget.

How about better visualizations of tracking time used in apps as if they were stocks in your portfolio? And then you could see how stuff changes over time – maybe even be able to input stuff (in college from x year to y year or put milestones for projects at work to see how stuff went).

Compare your usage with others that are similar in “criteria” to you. Different criteria could be age, zip code, profession, etc? Could be a nice way to explore apps.

By: Mark Oliver

Mark Oliver — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 02:28:47 +0000

Feature Requests:

- Object-based logging (Document, Window-Title, etc)
- “Smart Projects” (TrackTime ‘projects’ based on application/document groups)
- Export Functions (with selection of date ranges, applications, file formats, etc.)

Application Usage [According to TrackTime]:

- Safari
- FireFox
- Finder
(For what _that’s_ worth…?)

By: jonnyspaceboy

jonnyspaceboy — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 02:19:07 +0000

Amazing app – I hope to win a license!

My 3 top used apps:
1. iChat
2. Camino
3. iTunes

My 3 top used non-conventional apps:
1. Dreamveaver
2. Sling
3. xPad

By: Gand

Gand — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 23:02:48 +0000

- Edit track (add or remove time).

By: hello_world

hello_world — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:25:52 +0000

In my post above, “See [censored] for ideas” linked to the web page for Pageaddict, a FireFox plugin with some graphs that would be useful.

By: hello_world

hello_world — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:14:53 +0000

This is a good start, but with a few additions it could be the ultimate application for overcoming procrastination:

- The ability to tag applications and web sites (e.g., “work,” “procrastination,” etc.)
- Other ways of viewing the statistics gathered. See for ideas. I’d especially like to be able to see a graph of applications and web site use (grouped by tags) over time. (to see, for example, which days have been the most/least productive)
- The ability to set alerts for when a certain amount of time has been spent that day on a particular application, web site, or tagged group. (”Stop procrastinating!”)
- The ability to export statistics to tab-delimited text files.

My most-used applications are OmniWeb, NetNewsWire, and Adobe Acrobat.

By: Gand

Gand — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:03:45 +0000

- Track time spent on each Leopard spaces.

- Create group of apps to be tracked. Is something like project but related to custom apps group.

By: Jenn

Jenn — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 02:24:56 +0000

Maybe some way to sync between two different installs? I’m in grad school and do school stuff at home and at work (on a different computer). Or some way to log activities that weren’t tracked by TrackTime, even if it is just estimated.

By: Gand

Gand — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 11:54:59 +0000

On timeline, when I double clik on a browser session, I wish to see website list related to that session.

By: NichM

NichM — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 00:48:41 +0000

It would be awesome if there was a way to share this multi-platform or on the web.

Dashboard widget?

A web widget, to say how much time you’ve wasted on your site as well?

The app of full of sweetness, these things would just improve it even more.

I use Safari, Adium and iTunes the most.

By: sarah

sarah — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:39:28 +0000

I Think I use most:
safari
Omnifocus
itunes

By: Michael Mistretta

Michael Mistretta — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:52:23 +0000

@Ty There is Wakoopa, but it is not as detailed as this. You can try it out for mac or PC at http://wakoopa.com/

By: Ty

Ty — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:50:13 +0000

An option to present statistics as pie-charts or graphs would be great for easy comprehension and communications.

I know someone who would like this, but she uses a PC. Any comparable software for PCs?

By: Tarik

Tarik — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:31:15 +0000

An email feature goes along way to prove to your girlfriend (or wife) that you weren’t browsing your most beloved links of porn sites.

I use Quicksilver, Adium and visual hub.

By: Guillermo Cerame

Guillermo Cerame — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:34:44 +0000

Apps I use the most:

- iTunes
- Safari
- Adium

By: Gand

Gand — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:57:51 +0000

As #2 I also need to track time spent on web site, with a editable preference list to track only desired domain. Could be browser/app independent (so that I cant track time spent on a site even if I’m using Safari or Camino or Firefox).

By: Ben Smith

Ben Smith — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:54:52 +0000

How about this…

A little “micro$haft” counter that estimates how much time you didn’t have to spend rebooting, BSOD, or scanning viruses; because you’re using a Mac! Time estimates could be based on comparing the actual time you spent on a Mac program, with productivity loss estimates of its windows counterpart.

By: Gand

Gand — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:17:25 +0000

I work on two computers, at office and at home, so I need to trak both. I think that this can be done if both are on internet or, if not, find a way to join/import TrackTime data/preferences files.

By: bisley

bisley — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 09:44:41 +0000

I didnt use TrackTime but the three most used to me are: Firefox, iTunes and TaskPaper.

By: Christiaan

Christiaan — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 08:09:12 +0000

Haha, funny how nearly every comment has got a negative bang?

By: Bill W

Bill W — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 07:12:34 +0000

I would like the ability to export or print the statistics, so that they could be integrated into my time reporting for work, for example.

Also, it would be very cool if I could set a threshold of, say, 1 hour of non-productive work before an alarm goes off and says, “ok, you’ve goofed off enough, now it’s time to focus!” So integrating limits and alarms would be another cool feature.

Lastly, the 3 apps I use the most are: Quicksilver, Yojimbo, BBedit.

By: David

David — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 05:14:40 +0000

I think keeping track of clipboard items would be nice.. I lose a lot of information to the clipboard when I copy other things .. and I don’t like using iclip for that .. it’s not exactly what it’s made for.

Also, my top 3 apps are: Quicksilver, Camino, and iTunes.

By: Mark Bigham

Mark Bigham — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 04:53:56 +0000

I’m a high school teacher. Computer Aided Drafting in fact. This would be a great method of keeping track of all assignments, testing periods, and the general chaos.