Thyme
Productivity
time tracking
SHOW HN2016
How HN took it
7 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 18 comments about the project. Thread score +0.14.
Execution: 2 for, 2 againstIdea: 2 for, 1 againstDocs: 2 for, 0 againstPrivacy: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful alternative to RescueTime without sending data to a third party
From 1 comment
I'm excited to try this myself because I'm kind of hoping I can ditch RescueTime! Not that I don't like it, but it's $ and they have my data. It feels weird to be running their…
sulam on HN
Looks polished and well made
From 2 comments
Looks excellent. My immediate thought was whether it could be developed to get one step ahead: actually flag up the "bad" behaviour when you're doing it, rather than afterwards…
nmstoker on HNI wrote a very bare-bones version of this a few years ago for my personal use on MacOS, which has been running ever since: https://github.com/goerz/activity_logger/ This looks…
goerz on HN
Objections
Installation from source with Go is fiddly (GOPATH setup)
From 1 comment
For those on OSX, using Homebrew to install go is a far nicer experience, in addition to making it easier to keep things up-to-date. http://brew.sh then `brew install go` will…
mdaniel on HN
Not compatible with Windows at first
From 1 comment
kindly add remarks that this is not compatible with windows
pweissbrod on HN
Requests
Windows support
From 2 comments
Is there a similar tool for windows?
vividmind on HNkindly add remarks that this is not compatible with windows
pweissbrod on HN
Real-time alerts to flag bad behaviour as it happens
From 1 comment
Looks excellent. My immediate thought was whether it could be developed to get one step ahead: actually flag up the "bad" behaviour when you're doing it, rather than afterwards…
nmstoker on HN
Questions
Whether it tracks background audio or YouTube playing
From 1 comment
So from my understanding, given how you've commented that it works with Xorg, you're getting the list of everything on the screen that is currently drawing a rectangle. Do you…
cyphar on HN
Whether it has false positives from window manager
From 1 comment
So from my understanding, given how you've commented that it works with Xorg, you're getting the list of everything on the screen that is currently drawing a rectangle. Do you…
cyphar on HN
How to install on Mac OS X
From 1 comment
How do you install it on Mac OSX?
pkmishra on HN
Alternatives named
Wakatime
From 1 comment
Looks like a nice project but me myself prefers Wakatime that breaks down the time between project (basically git sources you open in your editor) rather than all the application…
diggan on HN
RescueTime
From 2 comments
I'm excited to try this out. It'll be fun to compare to some of the data I get by using RescueTime[1]. [1] - https://www.rescuetime.com/
xbryanx on HNI'm excited to try this myself because I'm kind of hoping I can ditch RescueTime! Not that I don't like it, but it's $ and they have my data. It feels weird to be running their…
sulam on HN
activity_logger (personal Mac tool)
From 1 comment
I wrote a very bare-bones version of this a few years ago for my personal use on MacOS, which has been running ever since: https://github.com/goerz/activity_logger/ This looks…
goerz on HN