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Copying text from the saved footage is wild! I had a poor man's version of this with TimeSnapper Classic, a free Windows utility that takes a screenshot every
by andai 3y ago
Copying text from the saved footage is wild!
I had a poor man's version of this with TimeSnapper Classic, a free Windows utility that takes a screenshot every n seconds then lets you view a timelapse at the end of the day to show how you spent your time.
After a few weeks my disk was starting to fill up with screenshots. I browsed the folders and noticed that most of the screenshots looked almost identical. "I should come up with some kind of image codec optimized for image sequences, that diffs against the previous image to save space." Then realized I had basically reinvented GIF / video codec haha. So I wrote a script to shove the timestamp (filename) into the image itself (with ImageMagick), and convert them to video with ffmpeg. 99.9% size reduction!
This looks a lot more useful though.
- andai 3y agoI forgot to explain the most valuable thing about watching a timelapse of your own day. It puts you "outside" time so you can view it from "above", essentially see the whole thing at once. (Not quite, since that would be a (still image) timeline, but the effect is very similar if the timelapse is short enough.) Really puts things into perspective.
- v_hacker 3y agoReading this, really reflects how I think about rewinding my day. Scary stuff to me. I would prefer a light version of that. Maybe aggregated data, more then screen time from Apple tho. Is there a tool recording your browsing behavior. That would be smth I'd try for starters :D