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How to track activity times when computer is off?
Can Slife track activity times when the computer is switched off like OfficeTime?
The point is, some of my activities do not require a computer (like reading and annotating articles I have printed on paper), but are a very important part of my work. Initially I thought 'Activities' in Slife could time such work, but after the idle time, or if I put my computer to sleep, the timer stops. OfficeTime can track times though sleep periods by looking at the computer's clock.
Can Slife do this? If not, will it be possible in the future?
The point is, some of my activities do not require a computer (like reading and annotating articles I have printed on paper), but are a very important part of my work. Initially I thought 'Activities' in Slife could time such work, but after the idle time, or if I put my computer to sleep, the timer stops. OfficeTime can track times though sleep periods by looking at the computer's clock.
Can Slife do this? If not, will it be possible in the future?
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Inappropriate?Ah, so let me see if I understand correctly. What you are looking for is a feature that keep tracks of your time away from the computer.
And maybe when you come back to your computer a dialog pops up and lets you categorize your time away as part of some activity that you defined.
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Inappropriate?Precisely. Or perhaps, rather choose the activity you're about to start first, then hibernate computer, an when I finish have it recorded in slife's statistics for that activity. Is that too far out of slife's philosophy? -
Inappropriate?It is a bit far from the vision of automatic activity tracking, but it's great to have these discussions. We are always brainstorming new features and what we can do to make the application better.
Thanks! What this suggestion does is address the tracking of activities outside of the computer. -
Inappropriate?I had a thought about while I was swimming laps this morning. ;^)
How hard would it be to put in an "add time" option for activities - so it wouldn't be a matter of telling Slife "I'm working on this activity" and it continuing to track even after the system hibernates. Instead you would be responsible for watching your own clock and telling Slife how much time you spent on the activity after the fact.
I guess that this starts to incorporate more general time-tracking software ideas, but it seems like there's demand for something that can do both.
I’m undecided
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This raises an interesting question. If you are willing to do time tracking manually, then there are lots of apps out there that do this really well.
At that point, wouldn't it make more sense for you to run two apps for time tracking? Slife could run in the background and track your activities automatically, and another app would let you do the tracking manually. You could correlate the two and have a great idea of what you did, at the expense of some additional overhead. -
Well, I'm actually not concerned about tracking my non-computer time so I wouldn't use that functionality anyway. It was just a thought I had. :^D
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I'd rather have one time tracking application so I can run one report, why run two applications with the same purpose and have two reports you have to correlate manually?
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Inappropriate?good idea, yes
if this could be done perhaps following :
when slife interrupted, computer reactivates :
proposes window with choice : affect time to project / activites x : xx minutes
y : yy minutes etc...
or all separate category / activity ( like sports/ relaxation ... ) with start time/day )
could be nice to keep all in one place though.
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Agree, thanks for your feedback.
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Inappropriate?I just stumbled on a related issue: I took a ten minute phone call. So, where do I write this? It's an application, just happens to be an offline one.
So, +1 for a popup asking me what I was doing.
I’m confident
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Inappropriate?Great. It's a good idea! And it's on our bug database - item #224!
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