Ask HN: Idea Sunday

Re:Ask HN: Idea Sunday by anupshinde on Sunday April 13, 2014 @05:17PM (#7583086)

Tracking browsing habits. I would like to see how much time I spent on what "kind or type" of browsing. And I can define these as a hierarchy (type->subtype). And define productive/unproductive/lessproductive segments.

Example: "stackoverflow or localhost:8081" would be "Development" kind of work. "news.ycombinator.com" --> "Reading" "gmail.com/outlook.com" --> "Commmunication" "facebook.com" -- "Unnecessary waste of time" ...and so on.

The reports would simply show- how much time I spent on what segment (Productive work/ General Browsing).

A chrome extension/app would be a good starting point - personally I do not use other browsers unless absolutely required.

Further I would also like it to automatically classify and show what kind of content I spend time browsing - like "Entrepreneurship / Programming / Nuclear fusion / Space Travel / ... "

If anybody wants to try it - let me know. I can dedicate a very small amount of time on this.

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Re:Ask HN: Idea Sunday by sarthakk on Sunday April 13, 2014 @05:30PM (#7583140)

You might want to check out BeLimitless (http://belimitless.co/): It's a Chrome extension that uses your browsing activity to tell you how productive you are/ have been.

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Re:Ask HN: Idea Sunday by Doctor_Fegg on Sunday April 13, 2014 @05:24PM (#7583116)

Have you tried RescueTime?

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Re:Ask HN: Idea Sunday by anupshinde on Monday April 14, 2014 @12:46AM (#7584584)

Thanks, looks promising - I have seen couple of other desktop time-tracking apps and this looks much better than those.

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