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Thanks for the step-by-step - that's just the kind of thing that I would love to see in a FAQ or similar document.

Nope, it's 2.0.1, but as I said, I couldn't replicate the problem yesterday.

I had previously watched them and I just did so again. They're a great overview, but they don't really get to the nitty gritty of how to do things.

I'm going to use one activity that I'd like to build as an example. I'm teaching an intro sociology course this semester... so I want to track the time I spend on URLs and files related to the course in the Soc110 activity.

-> After reading these forums, I realize that I can tell Slife to associate a file or a URL with an activity using the menubar. So every time I open up a course-related file, I could tell Slife to associate it with the Soc110 activity that way until they're all appropriately associated.
-> I have a HUNCH that I can add a string in the Activity Editor and that any files with that string in the title will be associated with the appropriate activity, but I'm not 100% sure on this. (So I could make sure that every file has "Soc110" in the filename and then it would be tracked appropriately.)
-> I know, again from participating here, that you're trying to work out a way to associate entire directories with an activity, so I could just associate the whole Soc110 directory on my hard drive with the Soc110 activity.
-> I'm REALLY confused about URLs. For my online course management system, should I feed it https://course.management.edu/*, or something else? In the "Activities" video, the example shows "General Robots" in the Activity Editor and then a webpage whose title is "General Robots" and whose URL is http://generalrobots.de. What exactly is Slife looking for when it tracks a URL - the URL itself, the title of the web page, something else?

These are the kinds of things that would be really great to see in a "getting started" guide or a FAQ.

It does, thanks!

Sure thing... Here we go.

1) Launch Slife.
2) Select "activities" from the lefthand bar.
3) Create a new activity by clicking on the plus sign. In the "Web and Documents" section, associate a filename string and a URL with that activity (using the plus sign).
4) Spend a bit of time monkeying around at the associated URL. (side question: can Slife understand wildcards in URLs? For example, I want to track all of my Flickr time under the "procrastination" activity by telling the activity to track http://www.flickr.com/*.)
5) Quit Slife.
6) Relaunch Slife.

Last time I tried this series of steps, the new activity had disappeared. This time, for whatever reason, it hasn't. (And I tried to coax it into misbehaving by trying three times!)

Programs running concurrently with Slife:
Flock, Mail, Adium, Southwest Airlines' Ding!, Quicksilver, QuietMBP, Journler

So I don't know WHAT it was doing the other day that was keeping it from behaving properly. I'll make a note if it happens again and try to actually reproduce it.

I'm having this problem, too. I am running 2.0.1 (just downloaded today) on a 1.8g GHz Intel CoreDuo MacBook Pro (1G MBP) with 10.5.4. I created several Activities this afternoon, and when I rebooted just now all but one of them are gone (as are the associated URLs and filenames). Changes I made to the default "checking e-mail" activity (pointing it at mail.app and GMail) were retained

It almost seems as if it STOPPED retaining changes at a certain point - the changes that were retained were the very first ones I made. To test this, I just started it up, created a couple of new activities, and quit. When I launched the application again, it was back at the same slightly-modified-from-default state that it was before.

1) the tracking a whole folder thing is KEY for me.
2) the changing filename wouldn't be a huge deal for me, but JohnB (below) makes important points about problems it could cause. – saramichelef, on August 18, 2008 18:55