Filed under: Windows, Productivity, Freeware
ManicTime tracks the time you spend using applications
by Lee Mathews Aug 26th 2009 at 11:00AM
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.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
minibar said 11:42AM on 8-26-2009
slife link in article broke
http://www.slifelabs.com/
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Lee Mathews said 11:46AM on 8-26-2009
Thanks MB, was supposed to point back to previous article. Fixed!
Molly said 1:13PM on 8-26-2009
Lee, the question is: do i really WANT to know? :)
nice find anyway.
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Lee Mathews said 1:25PM on 8-26-2009
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... ;)
Molly said 1:56PM on 8-26-2009
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.
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WG Hubris said 2:23PM on 8-26-2009
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/
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Lochlan said 12:23AM on 8-27-2009
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.
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Asgaro said 11:49AM on 8-27-2009
Totally agree with Lochlan, been using Wakoopa for about 2 years now and my profile shows lots of interesting stuff!