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Re:Show HN: Automatic private time tracking for OS X by poorman on Friday May 27, 2016 @09:05AM (#11785706)
It would be awesome if you could correlate this with songs playing on Spotify. Allow me to explain.

I'm listing to Spotify all day while writing code, listening to playlists like "Discover Weekly" or the "Radio". I find that some songs often make me much more productive than others. With all the data you collect, you could easily determine what songs are playing while I'm "productive" --such as while an editor (Atom) is open for a period of time. Then, those songs could get added to a "productive" playlist that I can use later when I need to really focus.

The problem currently is that we don't know what songs are playing when we are super productive because the truly great songs making us productive don't distract us, and thus never get added to a playlist as "productive" songs; they just keep playing in the background acting as a muse.

Re:Show HN: Automatic private time tracking for OS X by raihansaputra on Friday May 27, 2016 @12:12PM (#11786959)
Cross the data with last.fm scrobbler? (Connect your spotify to last.fm, sync timestamps with data from tracker)
Re:Show HN: Automatic private time tracking for OS X by ivm on Friday May 27, 2016 @12:11PM (#11786954)
This is an interesting idea but sorry, it's too much for the app to become a separate feature.

We will have export in future and you will be able to match data from Qbserve and data from Spotify to see which tracks create the flow for you.