Trace is a time-tracking app that helps you understand how you spend your time. It monitors your device activity and presents a color-coded & easy-to-digest timeline of your app usage.
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Congrats on the launch, @tk4! 🎉 I’m curious about the built-in activity monitoring—how does it differentiate between productive and non-productive app usage? Also, for the color-coded timeline, can users customize the colors or categories to better fit their workflow? I'm all for enhancing productivity with tools like Trace, but I'm wondering about any potential impacts on system performance while it's running. Thanks for sharing this, looking forward to your insights!
@dance17219 Thanks Bryan! Trace doesn't differ between productive/non-productive apps, it shows all your app activity during a session. Also, The app colors are determined by the app icon, and you can't currently customize them.
As for system performance, a large portion of the app is written in Rust, a fast & memory efficient language. I have a 1st gen M1 Macbook, and it takes < 1% of CPU usage on average.
Wow, Trace looks really impressive! I love the sleek design and how it visualizes app usage in an intuitive timeline. As someone who constantly wonders where my time goes, this could be a game-changer.
A few thoughts:
The local storage and privacy focus is great. Maybe highlight that even more prominently? It's a key differentiator from cloud-based alternatives.
Have you considered adding a "productivity score" or some gamification elements? RescueTime does this well and it can be motivating.
Any plans for a mobile companion app? Would be cool to see a holistic view across devices.
Please tell me it has a "boss approaching" hotkey to quickly hide how much time I've spent on Reddit 😉
Overall, awesome work! This looks way more polished than my time tracker (a sundial and abacus). Excited to give it a try and reclaim my productivity. Or at least have concrete data on how unproductive I am.
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How is it different from the in-built time tracking and management in our ios and android devices?
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Congratulations on the launch of Trace! It looks like a valuable addition for those seeking better time management and work-life balance!
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Just for Mac? Would love something like this for windows
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Actually, found it. Called RescueTime
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I haven't tried so I can't give you too much insight, however, the simple home page is great.
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