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Oksana, <br>
<br>
I use "Activity Journal" (powered by Zeitgeits) on the main Ubuntu
repository. It even tells you what applications you had opened, and
what files you were working on.<br>
<br>
Look for it on the Ubuntu App Center<br>
<br>
It's Zeitgeist logger + GNOME Activity Journal.<br>
<br>
Works like a charm.<br>
<br>
On 11-11-04 12:17 PM, Oksana Goertzen wrote:
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face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Hi Andrew et al,<br>
<br>
I'm mainly looking for something to track time, to
substantiate what I've<br>
been working on - i.e. where my time goes and to what
project, not so<br>
much for billing purposes (for work, at work). Like you,
ideally something<br>
web-based and easily available/portable would be great. :)<br>
<br>
Thanks for your input.<br>
<br>
-Oksana<br>
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<div class="im">On Thu, Oct 06 10:25:05 AM Oksana Goertzen
wrote:<br>
> I was wondering if anyone could recommend a<br>
> good time tracking utility?<br>
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(late to the party, but fashionably so, I hope).<br>
<br>
I have struggled with this very problem for a while. My
requirements are<br>
simple: I want to be able to enter time in a relatively human
way, not be<br>
locked in to someone's app or backend service, and have my
data stored on my<br>
own hardware.<br>
<br>
I've tried a multitude of system tray utilities, desktop
widgets, web<br>
services, iphone apps... you name it. They all failed, largely
due to failing<br>
the "relatively human data entry" or not being available to me
at any time,<br>
any where.<br>
<br>
I ended up doing something a little unusual. I started using a
service called<br>
Yammer. Yammer is essentially a company Twitter. It's private,
unlike Twitter.<br>
I can enter data via their web interface, via their iPhone
app, or even<br>
through an XMPP (aka Jabber or GTalk) bot. They allow me to
subscribe to my<br>
own feed via RSS, so I can pull my data back into my own
hardware via any RSS<br>
aggregator.<br>
<br>
It isn't strictly a time tracker, but I use it as one thusly:
"yesterday<br>
worked 9a-6p on $foo" or "3h on $bar" or "11h trying to figure
out $baz for<br>
$quux."<br>
<br>
Generating timesheets was a matter of going through the RSS
feed with keyword<br>
filters. For me, that meant company or project names. A manual
search is kind<br>
of disgusting, but it is easily scriptable when I have time to
do it myself or<br>
money to hire someone to do it for me.<br>
<br>
VERY human-centric data entry. Available damn near ANYWHERE.
Data stored in my<br>
own hardware. Infinite flexibility in filtering and reporting.
WIN!<br>
<br>
Then Yammer started stinking. They changed their plans so I
had to pay for RSS<br>
feeds. Their XMPP bot was unavailable 90% of the time. They
didn't respond to<br>
support requests. Fail. I started looking for an alternative.
I found it in<br>
Socialcast. Everything the same, different company. They even
offer a twitter-<br>
compatible API so I can use any app that can speak Twitter to
enter my data.<br>
Back to winning.<br>
<br>
I'm planning on expanding this use of a "feed" to create a
messagebus similar<br>
to dbus. Basically I can write notes, reminders, todos, etc.
and have an army<br>
of bots watching the feed and interpreting the data. so
something like "pick<br>
up the kid @3p" will send me a reminder notification via XMPP
or Growl at 2:30.<br>
"check oven +30m" will do something similar. "[ ] reschedule
dentist appt"<br>
will create a todo. You get the idea.<br>
<br>
I'm sick of having my data locked away in other people's
formats and servers.<br>
I think I may have finally found something that works very
well for me and is<br>
flexible enough to grow. If Socialcast also goes belly-up I
can always set up<br>
my own twitter service and everything will just port over.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
-A.<br>
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