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ManicTime tracks the time you spend using applications
Once installed, ManicTime sits in your system tray and monitors your active window. Times are automatically recorded, and blocks can be tagged to help you keep tabs on what type of work you were doing during certain periods. You can also tweak the amount of time before your system is considered idle and customize an application's color.
Want to pause tracking? A simple right-click on the system tray icon and you can "go off the record."
My chart was a real eye-opener. Obviously I knew that I now spend much of my computing time in my web browser, but I didn't realize just how much. Between keeping up on RSS feeds and other streams like Twitter and FriendFeed, GMail, and the other web apps I utilize nearly 80% of my time is spent in a browser.
If ManicTime isn't quite what you were looking for, there's also Slife which runs on both Windows and Mac systems.
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Subscribe to commentsminibarAug 26th 2009 11:42AM
slife link in article broke
http://www.slifelabs.com/
Lee MathewsAug 26th 2009 11:46AM
Thanks MB, was supposed to point back to previous article. Fixed!
MollyAug 26th 2009 1:13PM
Lee, the question is: do i really WANT to know? :)
nice find anyway.
Lee MathewsAug 26th 2009 1:25PM
Well, Molly, it wouldn't be useful for you, really - since we all know you spend 99% of your time harassing Microsoft fans on various blog sites... ;)
MollyAug 26th 2009 1:56PM
ain't that the sad truth? :)
OT: anything wrong with AIM login here or is it just me? it's been a while that i can't use it anymore. email confirmation is quite annoying.
WG HubrisAug 26th 2009 2:23PM
I recently ditched RescueTime for ManicTime because I didn't like all of that "what I do" data going out onto the web. http://www.besthubris.com/entreprenuer/rescuetime-time-tracker-offline-version-manictime/
The one thing I can't get over though is how BIG Manic Time is. It uses something like 70K+ of RAM while running on my PC. RescueTime uses around 6K. I guess it just depends on which is more important to you, your privacy, or your system's resources.
WG
http://www.besthubris.com/
LochlanAug 27th 2009 12:23AM
Wakoopa (http://wakoopa.com/) is an app that sits in your tray and records time usage on applications, even web apps. It's pretty cool.
AsgaroAug 27th 2009 11:49AM
Totally agree with Lochlan, been using Wakoopa for about 2 years now and my profile shows lots of interesting stuff!