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Beautiful. I would pay for a product that I could just turn on in the background and get reports like this daily.
by m0th87 14y ago
Beautiful. I would pay for a product that I could just turn on in the background and get reports like this daily.
- keso 14y agoHave you tried RescueTime? https://www.rescuetime.com/ https://www.rescuetime.com/
- aw3c2 14y agoThat seems like it sends all data home. I find that incredibly scary for something so indepth.
- rjtavares 14y agoThe productivity gain I had from using RescueTime was well worth the scary thought of having a spy on my computer.
- mej10 14y agoIs the productivity gain from the insight into how you spend your time? Or is there some other aspect I am missing.
- aaronblohowiak 14y ago>Hence the major effect of the Panopticon: to induce in the inmate a state of conscious and permanent visibility that assures the automatic functioning of power. So to arrange things that the surveillance is permanent in its effects, even if it is discontinuous in its action; that the perfection of power should tend to render its actual exercise unnecessary; that this architectural apparatus should be a machine for creating and sustaining a power relation independent of the person who exercises it; in short, that the inmates should be caught up in a power situation of which they are themselves the bearers. To achieve this, it is at once too much and too little that the prisoner should be constantly observed by an inspector: too little, for what matters is that he knows himself to be observed; too much, because he has no need in fact of being so. Michel Foucault on Bentham's Panopticon Prison design, which utilized a ring of cells around a central guard tower.
- JohnFromBuffalo 14y agoWhat?!
- darkxanthos 14y agoWhat gets measured gets managed. ;)
- schrodinger 14y agoI think he's saying just knowing you're being watched is enough to change your behavior.
- mej10 14y agoThat makes sense, and now I am curious about trying it out. As an aside: I think that is an interesting analysis of the Panopticon (which I hadn't heard of before) but I think that writing is needlessly wordy.
- interskh 14y agoI am using RescueTime because i want to track on all my computing devices, but there are a few alternatives that runs locally. I recently came across this one: http://timingapp.com/ http://timingapp.com/ Haven't tried it tho.
- mej10 14y agoI think it would be straightforward to write a program that monitors/records whatever applications have focus. I am only familiar with OS X, though. Using the accessibility APIs you can get the focused window and register for focus change notifications. Of course there is a bit more in parsing the data you gather and creating reports/doing whatever, but the monitoring part should be easy enough.
- nanook 14y agoYou could try Time Sink (http://manytricks.com/timesink/ http://manytricks.com/timesink/)
- riyadparvez 14y agoManic Time. Just google it
- zeynalov 14y agois there anything for mac?
- heliostatic 14y agoTiming (http://timingapp.com/ http://timingapp.com/) does a nice job. It also allows you to define "projects" which are applications, folders, or websites which then get tracked together. Useful for client work or in figuring out how you actually spend your time on a spike, for instance.
- zeynalov 14y agoThanks, I started using it, it's already 5 hours. I see now it doesn't track very well. Then I've read in their website that it doesn't support firefox. It does track websites with firefox but has some errors.
- mih 14y agoI second Manic Time. It's offline, so your data remains with you. Plus in addition to graph visualizations, it also allows you to track what applications, documents and websites you spend most time on.I reckon they have a portable version of it too.
- riprock 14y agomy problem with these tracking apps is that it's too easy to "cheat" the system if you have more than one monitor. I typically have a video or stream open on one monitor while I have focus on a window in another monitor so the app doesn't log my distractions.