Re: [dev] dwm: suckless way to monitor work hours

2009-09-13 Thread markus schnalke
[2009-09-01 10:07] Niklas Koponen > > Or better yet, has anybody already implemented this kind of tracking? Just came across [0]. You may find this interesting. [0] http://www.joachim-breitner.de/blog/index.php?url=archives/336-The-Automatic-Rule-Based-Time-Tracker.html meillo signature.as

Re: [dev] dwm: suckless way to monitor work hours

2009-09-07 Thread Niklas Koponen
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 11:27 PM, Preben Randhol wrote: > On Tue, 1 Sep 2009 10:07:47 +0300 > Niklas Koponen wrote: > >> My plan is to take a snaphot of the root window at certain intervals >> if there has been some mouse or keyboard activity. I also record the >> amount of activity. Then I store t

Re: [dev] dwm: suckless way to monitor work hours

2009-09-05 Thread Preben Randhol
On Tue, 1 Sep 2009 10:07:47 +0300 Niklas Koponen wrote: > My plan is to take a snaphot of the root window at certain intervals > if there has been some mouse or keyboard activity. I also record the > amount of activity. Then I store the information and at the end of the > month I just generate a

Re: [dev] dwm: suckless way to monitor work hours

2009-09-01 Thread v4hn
ev'ning, Nice idea! I'm definitly interested in that project, so please report further progress. v4hn pgpNadfWQRjtq.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [dev] dwm: suckless way to monitor work hours

2009-09-01 Thread hiro
Analyzing the time spent on useless stuff can give you quite a productivity boost. Some time ago I did this by reading wmii's /event file. It has helped me ditch some stupid habits. On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Niklas Koponen wrote: > Thinking is added on top of the time spent on the keyboard

Re: [dev] dwm: suckless way to monitor work hours

2009-09-01 Thread Niklas Koponen
Thinking is added on top of the time spent on the keyboard with the factor of 1.3. The important information I get is how much time I've spent by the keyboard and what files I have been editing, what sites I've been surfing and how long the day has been from the first interaction to the last. It d

Re: [dev] dwm: suckless way to monitor work hours

2009-09-01 Thread Anselm R Garbe
2009/9/1 Sebastian Stark : > > On 01.09.2009, at 11:01, Anselm R Garbe wrote: > >> But how do you track the time of thinking? > > In reality nobody pays you for thinking :) I'd say working as a software developer means: you "think" at least 90% of your work time, when comparing it with the physica

Re: [dev] dwm: suckless way to monitor work hours

2009-09-01 Thread Sebastian Stark
On 01.09.2009, at 11:01, Anselm R Garbe wrote: But how do you track the time of thinking? In reality nobody pays you for thinking :)

Re: [dev] dwm: suckless way to monitor work hours

2009-09-01 Thread Anselm R Garbe
Hi, 2009/9/1 Niklas Koponen : > I use dwm and my goal is to automatically track my working hours. I've > always been poor in manually writing down my working hours to some > calendar or using some manual tracking tool. > > My plan is to take a snaphot of the root window at certain intervals > if t

Re: [dev] dwm: suckless way to monitor work hours

2009-09-01 Thread Donald Chai
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Niklas Koponen wrote: --snip-- > I use import to take the snapshot, and I was going to use xev to check > for event activity by attaching xev to the window that has focus. The > problem at the moment is that I don't know how to find out which is > the window that h

Re: [dev] dwm: suckless way to monitor work hours

2009-09-01 Thread Samuel Baldwin
s/kludgy/less kludgy/ -- Samuel Baldwin - logik.li

Re: [dev] dwm: suckless way to monitor work hours

2009-09-01 Thread Samuel Baldwin
I'd suggest writing some kind of X hooks or something to check for mouse/keyboard activity (I'm sure there are utilities out there already), and potentially modifying dwm to keep track of time each window is focused (or something similar), maybe even focused when there is keyboard activity. Definit

[dev] dwm: suckless way to monitor work hours

2009-09-01 Thread Niklas Koponen
Hi! I use dwm and my goal is to automatically track my working hours. I've always been poor in manually writing down my working hours to some calendar or using some manual tracking tool. My plan is to take a snaphot of the root window at certain intervals if there has been some mouse or keyboard