An idea that I think would make Slife even better would be to monitor certain websites by themselves. When I look at my Slife now, All I see is that I spend a lot of time on the internet. I think two options that could improve it would be to represent different websites- ex: gmail.com- as a different color on the Slife tracking table. The other option that could work would to be able to have certain websites show up as "programs," getting their own place on the chart. This way, you could limit time spent on youtube without having to limit time on the Internet.
I don't understand what the different rows of dots mean in Day view.
The same window appears in different rows at different times with no apparent rhyme or reason. Plus, there's numerous instances of windows appearing in different rows even without any other windows open from the same app, so it's not to indicate multiple windows being open at once (though doesn't Slife only scrape the frontmost window anyway?).
I would like to be able to use a regular expression as a document title in Activities. I have several files that start with a pattern, (for example invoice_), so I could use something like invoice_. to record an activity called invoicing.
I've been tracking my apps with Slife 2.0 for 4 days now and the app is becoming unusably slow. Especially the Day view is reeeeally laggy (like a slideshow), scrolling down is tedious so I try to avoid that screen in general.
Switching between Day, Month and Applications is anything but snappy, with again Day being the slowest, taking over a second to load.
Running on a Penryn Macbook Pro with 4gigs of RAM, so system performance shouldn't be an issue. Interestingly, the list has 29 apps after I removed a lot of apps I never asked Slife to track but it decided to track nonetheless (but that's another issue for another ticket).
System is Leopard 10.5.4. Please let me know if you need any more system info.
In particular, right now I'm looking at the Activities list:
- Entire bottom button area very wasteful on space. All of these controls should probably be merged into the top bar with the date.
- +/-/* buttons are *huge* for their content; that icon resembles the standard "gear" icon but isn't it, and doesn't behave like every other instance of the "gear" icon (action menus). Also, they're typically gradient buttons, not capsule buttons.
- Day/Month button types also incorrect for their usage; that style might work OK in a toolbar implementation, though, up with the date
- Layout doesn't correctly respond to window resizing
Many of the same/similar problems occur throughout the application.
I recently installed v.2.0 and noticed every little bit that my CPU fan kicks on. Opening Activity Monitor, it looks like Slife's usage of the CPU spikes way up anywhere from every few minutes to every (maybe?) ten minutes. Any ideas how to fix?
I would like to be able to say something like "When I am working in a document that is within the path /Users/John/awesome/project/ then attribute my time to the activity Awesome Project."
How can I export data from the Mac version of Slife? I like the graphic view of my activities but I really need a nice chronological list in plain text; it's too hard to mouse over 3x3-pixel blobs when trying to figure out which projects I was working on during the day.
When looking at the "Web & Docoments" view, please drag & drop the documents to activities in the sidebar, and remember to associate those documents with that task in the future. That way we can organize what we've done even if we've already done it.
Is there a way to group web pages by domain? For example, I use Google Reader to read my blogs, and I'd like to get an idea of how much time I spend each day reading blogs.
Unfortunately, at the moment with Slife 2.0, I seem to get dozens of different entries for Google Reader, one for "Google Reader (34)", another for "Google Reader (95)", etc., since Google Reader uses the title of the document to indicate the number of unread items. I've noticed that other services, such as Gmail, do the same thing.
There was discussion elsewhere about using regular expressions to group related documents. That could be really useful, but I think doing this automatically for web page domains is something many people would use fairly frequently.
One idea that I think would really improve Slife would be the monitoring of applications running in the background. For example- keeping track of how much time iChat is open as well as when it is used. This could be used for productivity reasons- you may not be using iChat, but having it in the background can be distracting. From what I know now, Slife only monitors programs that are being used.
How do I assign applications and documents new icons? (if this is currently possible...)
(i.e. I use aquamacs, but in slife, it just shows up with the same icon as slife itself. I'd like to assign it something else, but I haven't been able to find out how to do so..?)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I can tell, Slife 2.0 cannot be run as a background application, which was one aspect I loved about Slife. If I can't run it as a background application I am honestly considering downgrading back to Slife 1.3.2.
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