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My usual plug for TagTime[0], which handles this in a slightly different (and in my view better) way: it stochastically tracks your time by randomly sampling ti

by pmyteh 6y ago

My usual plug for TagTime[0], which handles this in a slightly different (and in my view better) way: it stochastically tracks your time by randomly sampling times to ask you what you're doing right now. Fair in expectation, timeless (no slacking off because you've just filled in the timesheet), accurately captures (on average) the cost of all the short phone calls and context switches. It's by the Beeminder people, but works on its own. A hacky pile of perl scripts. I've run it continuously for 8 years now. [0]: https://github.com/tagtime/TagTime https://github.com/tagtime/TagTime

tra3 6y ago
I tried running it a couple of years ago, no luck. I can't recall what the problem was. Is it actually functional?
- pmyteh 6y ago
  It's fully functional, though not straightforward. Needs a bit of setup, and doesn't handle multiple machines particularly well. That's the perl version I linked. There's a similarly functional android version, I think.
  - wngr 6y ago
    Yeah, the Android app is also quite dated, but functional.
zufallsheld 6y ago
Does anyone know of a similar tool for windows?
- smitop 6y ago
  Here's a list of implementations: http://doc.beeminder.com/tagtime http://doc.beeminder.com/tagtime (I also wrote a web implementation: https://ttw.smitop.com/ https://ttw.smitop.com/)
gibrown 6y ago
I used tagtime for a while a decade or so ago. I agree that the stochastic tracking is a lot better since you can't game it. I may try it again, so thanks for the reminder. I've been a paid subscriber to http://rescuetime.com/ http://rescuetime.com/ for almost a decade now. Passive tracking and analysis. But it is not much of a nudge to really focus on things. Thanks for the reminder. I need to write up my Elasticsearch setup for indexing my health/rehab tracking data, but the code is here: https://github.com/gibrown/es-health-tracker https://github.com/gibrown/es-health-tracker and some of the older tracking I wrote about here: https://greg.blog/2018/06/15/relearning-to-walk-at-forty/ https://greg.blog/2018/06/15/relearning-to-walk-at-forty/

by pmyteh 6y ago

tra3 6y ago

I tried running it a couple of years ago, no luck. I can't recall what the problem was. Is it actually functional?

pmyteh 6y ago
It's fully functional, though not straightforward. Needs a bit of setup, and doesn't handle multiple machines particularly well. That's the perl version I linked. There's a similarly functional android version, I think.
- wngr 6y ago
  Yeah, the Android app is also quite dated, but functional.

zufallsheld 6y ago

Does anyone know of a similar tool for windows?

smitop 6y ago
Here's a list of implementations: http://doc.beeminder.com/tagtime http://doc.beeminder.com/tagtime (I also wrote a web implementation: https://ttw.smitop.com/ https://ttw.smitop.com/)

gibrown 6y ago

I used tagtime for a while a decade or so ago. I agree that the stochastic tracking is a lot better since you can't game it. I may try it again, so thanks for the reminder. I've been a paid subscriber to http://rescuetime.com/ http://rescuetime.com/ for almost a decade now. Passive tracking and analysis. But it is not much of a nudge to really focus on things. Thanks for the reminder. I need to write up my Elasticsearch setup for indexing my health/rehab tracking data, but the code is here: https://github.com/gibrown/es-health-tracker https://github.com/gibrown/es-health-tracker and some of the older tracking I wrote about here: https://greg.blog/2018/06/15/relearning-to-walk-at-forty/ https://greg.blog/2018/06/15/relearning-to-walk-at-forty/