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Semirelated but I run timesnapper, which is a private tracking software running only on my PC so I can check if I've forgotten to save a doc and wanted to see w

Semirelated but I run timesnapper, which is a private tracking software running only on my PC so I can check if I've forgotten to save a doc and wanted to see what it looked like 2 hours ago.

severine 8y ago
Interesting! Link: http://timesnapper.com/ http://timesnapper.com/ What would be the *nix alternative?
- mmel 8y ago
  while : ; do scrot ss-$(date +%s).jpg ;sleep 60 ;done
- Kagerjay 8y ago
  Great question, I needed a macOS equivalent for my macbook. Technically this is *nix since its unix flavored https://alternativeto.net/software/timesnapper/ https://alternativeto.net/software/timesnapper/ I haven't tried any personally, but digging through the alternatives I actually didn't see any resembling it. All the other alternatives were designed to manage employees & their time. None of them seemed to offer video playbacks like timesnapper, only screenshots. And they worked online which is a giant red flag for me. The closest one I could find though for linux and macOS is this one called productivity-peach https://www.etopian.com/software/automatic-screenshots-windows-mac-linux/ https://www.etopian.com/software/automatic-screenshots-windo... . I strictly wanted to avoid "remote monitoring" or "employee-tracking" type software I did pay $30 for timesnapper (one license works on more than 1 PC). Timesnapper is nice, you can playback your entire day and see everything that was done. Super useful if you do sysadmin stuff as well, sometimes you might change a setting on AWS/cpanel/etc and it screws up everything. Now you can go back and see what you changed. You can add a password too which I do as well, your video playbacks are encrypted
  - severine 8y ago
    Funny, I did the same thing. The answer below by mmel is more appealing to me after looking through those alternatives... I agree, that the closest is Productivity Peach, but being a closed source Java app, and my circumstances, that one liner could be going more my way, thanks Kagerjay and mmel!

Semirelated but I run timesnapper, which is a private tracking software running only on my PC so I can check if I've forgotten to save a doc and wanted to see what it looked like 2 hours ago.

severine 8y ago

Interesting! Link: http://timesnapper.com/ http://timesnapper.com/ What would be the *nix alternative?

mmel 8y ago
while : ; do scrot ss-$(date +%s).jpg ;sleep 60 ;done
Kagerjay 8y ago
Great question, I needed a macOS equivalent for my macbook. Technically this is *nix since its unix flavored https://alternativeto.net/software/timesnapper/ https://alternativeto.net/software/timesnapper/ I haven't tried any personally, but digging through the alternatives I actually didn't see any resembling it. All the other alternatives were designed to manage employees & their time. None of them seemed to offer video playbacks like timesnapper, only screenshots. And they worked online which is a giant red flag for me. The closest one I could find though for linux and macOS is this one called productivity-peach https://www.etopian.com/software/automatic-screenshots-windows-mac-linux/ https://www.etopian.com/software/automatic-screenshots-windo... . I strictly wanted to avoid "remote monitoring" or "employee-tracking" type software I did pay $30 for timesnapper (one license works on more than 1 PC). Timesnapper is nice, you can playback your entire day and see everything that was done. Super useful if you do sysadmin stuff as well, sometimes you might change a setting on AWS/cpanel/etc and it screws up everything. Now you can go back and see what you changed. You can add a password too which I do as well, your video playbacks are encrypted
- severine 8y ago
  Funny, I did the same thing. The answer below by mmel is more appealing to me after looking through those alternatives... I agree, that the closest is Productivity Peach, but being a closed source Java app, and my circumstances, that one liner could be going more my way, thanks Kagerjay and mmel!