[HN Gopher] Show HN: Track time spent on activities that matter ...
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Show HN: Track time spent on activities that matter to you
Author : 9_weslay
Score : 19 points
Date : 2023-10-08 08:23 UTC (14 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.countthehours.app)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.countthehours.app)
| 9_weslay wrote:
| I 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.
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| 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!
| j6zauas4gz wrote:
| 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.
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| 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.
| eb2 wrote:
| Have you considered that if your trackable focus time is
| mostly offline, you're not the intended user?
| j6zauas4gz wrote:
| 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.
| xwowsersx wrote:
| 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.
| sleey wrote:
| For 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.
|
| [1] https://activitywatch.net/
| CrimsonChapulin wrote:
| 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.
| pizzafeelsright wrote:
| There 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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