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Away from the keyboard or watching a movie? Idle time is detected intelligently. Problem is it heavily depends on the person what is really idling. Ideally yo

by stinos 10y ago

Away from the keyboard or watching a movie? Idle time is detected intelligently. Problem is it heavily depends on the person what is really idling. Ideally you should be able to read the mind to see if there's any work-related activity :] I'm still using manual time tracking mainly because of this (even despite the obvious disadvantage of forgetting to turn it on or off): there's all kinds of solutions like detecting mouse/keyboard idling to fancier ones like detecting if your phone is near your pc and stuff like that, but at least for me none of these are as correct as just manually saying 'now I'm working, now I'm not': they can't detect things like me sitting outside with pen & paper.

ivm 10y ago
You can set idle per-category. "Videos & TV" category is idle by default. So if you have Youtube open and there's no mouse/keyboard input then Qbserve assumes you're watching a video.
- dionidium 10y ago
  How? My options seem limited to "Productive, Neutral, and Distracting."
  - ivm 10y ago
    Sorry, missed your reply. Please go into the category tab in the Details and select a required category. There will be an "Always track time" checkbox. It prevents the app from going idle during activities in this category.
    - dionidium 10y ago
      I have the opposite issue, actually. ScreenSaverEngine shows up in "neutral," but it shouldn't be counted in any of those three buckets. It's just idle time.
      - ivm 10y ago
        Thank you, I will add an exception.
spoinkaroo 10y ago
I'm going to compare the app to tracking with pen and paper also. Maybe having to physically write down when I'm not working more will make me procrastinate less.