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by SkyMarshal 2321 days ago
To be honest, none of that stuff really matters in a productivity tracker, your UI is good enough.

The only thing that really matters in a productivity tracker is whether the tracker can automatically record my activity without me having to manually enter new tasks or manually tell it I'm swapping to another activity.

I jump around between brower tabs, terminal windows, ide's, music player, etc so frequently there's no way I'll ever take the time to manually record every time I alt-tab. All I really want is a tracker that automatically records the window title or tab title every time the window focus changes, and the timestamp.

Afaik that's not possible since OS's don't allow one app to know about the others running alongside it. A time tracker would have to be integrated into the OS to do that. But if anyone ever figured out a way to do that, plus fully offline operation and zero-cloud data privacy, I'd buy it in a heartbeat.

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ManicTime does exactly that on Windows, even in the free version. On Mac, Timing is a similar alternative. Both track windows and work offline.
By the way, you wouldn't happen to know of any that do this on Linux, would you?
Thanks!