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by niobe 701 days ago
Well this is an indication of the fundamental issue with tools of this sort that attempt to automate data collection .. if it's not 99% automatic and 99% correct then you're not actually saving me any time vs. manual time tracking. You're actually making things harder by adding another layer to the software stack that must be reviewed for correctness and painstakingly fixed because it doesn't get things right.

Until tools know what I'm doing and what I'm thinking I prefer a one-touch manual approach that I know is right because I entered it. This allows me to adjust for that other project's phonecall while I may have been moving my mouse in a spreadsheet. Or the time watering the plants while I was solving an architectural problem. Or the fact I didn't record 5 minutes yesterday so am rounding up 5 minutes today. Etc..