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The API is not public yet. I plan to though. Out of interest, what are you building? Perhaps we should keep in touch :)

ttamslam 6y ago
Not OP, but I also have a project that would slot in nicely. I run a service that tracks work/sleep/exercise/meditation (along with a couple other data points that don't fit the duration model) via an SMS interface. I text it when I start/stop these activities and then it sends me reminders based on when I normally do those things during the day if I haven't already. It would be great to be able to push the data I collect into your service to have a unified view of how I spend my time, and also to pull events from your service to send reminders to do certain things via my bot.
- almarklein 6y ago
  That sounds cool!
spiffytech 6y ago
The folks from Beeminder (a goal-motivation SaaS) created a pile of Perl scripts nearly a decade ago called TagTime (http://tagti.me http://tagti.me), which shows pop-ups periodically (but randomly) asking what you're doing right now, and feeds that into a time tracker. That tackles one huge issue with time tracking: you have to either diligently switch up your tracker every time you context-switch, or retrospectively guess at what you actually did, and how long you think you spent on it all. Random stochastic sampling gives a solid great long-term approximation of your activities and cumulative time spent, without guesswork or discipline. I love the idea, but I need this to work on my computer, and my phone, and my other computer, and..., so I'm heeding their call to build a cloud-based version of TagTime. It pings the user via various channels (SMS, Web Push, Slack, etc.) and feeds their responses into Beeminder, Toggl, and IFTTT. I'd love to add TimeTagger to the list of supported integrations, since the demo app looks really compelling for the way I think about tracking time.

Not OP, but I also have a project that would slot in nicely. I run a service that tracks work/sleep/exercise/meditation (along with a couple other data points that don't fit the duration model) via an SMS interface. I text it when I start/stop these activities and then it sends me reminders based on when I normally do those things during the day if I haven't already. It would be great to be able to push the data I collect into your service to have a unified view of how I spend my time, and also to pull events from your service to send reminders to do certain things via my bot.

almarklein 6y ago
That sounds cool!

spiffytech 6y ago

The folks from Beeminder (a goal-motivation SaaS) created a pile of Perl scripts nearly a decade ago called TagTime (http://tagti.me http://tagti.me), which shows pop-ups periodically (but randomly) asking what you're doing right now, and feeds that into a time tracker. That tackles one huge issue with time tracking: you have to either diligently switch up your tracker every time you context-switch, or retrospectively guess at what you actually did, and how long you think you spent on it all. Random stochastic sampling gives a solid great long-term approximation of your activities and cumulative time spent, without guesswork or discipline. I love the idea, but I need this to work on my computer, and my phone, and my other computer, and..., so I'm heeding their call to build a cloud-based version of TagTime. It pings the user via various channels (SMS, Web Push, Slack, etc.) and feeds their responses into Beeminder, Toggl, and IFTTT. I'd love to add TimeTagger to the list of supported integrations, since the demo app looks really compelling for the way I think about tracking time.