Toms wrote:
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Bruce van der Kooij <brucevdkooij gmail com> wrote:Looking at Hamster it seems the major difference is that the way you track time in GTimeLog is by typing out the activity when you stop doing it, you don't have to tell the application you've started doing something.exactly. but then again you could say that in hamster you don't have to tell the application that you've stopped doing something, you justswitch to other activity.
I'm having trouble easily switching to an activity. Here's how I expect it would work: I start a task from "No activity": * Hotkey (default: <Super>H) * Activity: Bar * Enter * Hamster starts tracking time I want to switch task: * Hotkey (default: <Super>H) * Activity: Foo * Enter * Hamster switches activity But instead what this does is change the current activity name from Bar to Foo.
now, regards the t-30 bit for forgotten tasks. In hamster master branch since today it is possible to specify time in the text input field. something like 1234-1255 planning world domination
Alright, that may work, I'll try using that.
/me goes looking whether it's possible to prevent the activity itself from being displayed in the appletit could be that this is another difference from gtimelog. activity name is a good reminder of current activity. by loosing it, i believe the accuracy would drop beyond usable. a somewhat different tracking model might be necessary. if you find yourself typing too long activity names, try out descriptions and keep activities short. Mine are at most 2 words.
I'm currently doing an activity "Brainstorming about Hamster" but following your advise I've added a Category "Hamster" and changed thisto just Brainstorming. I'm going to see if this doesn't annoy me too much (I use quite long activity names in GTimeLog, but that's actually quite problematic for tracking time in categories).
For me time tracking though is essentially fire and forget, I don't need to be reminded about what I'm currently doing (it's quite obvious to me what I'm doing). I only look at my time tracking application once I'm
switching activities. I'm going to patch Hamster to be able to allow theuser to configure what should be displayed and what not. Also, it's a aesthetic thing (I don't like clutter).
I have to say so far Hamster is getting too much in my way, but instead of walking away and sticking to using GTimeLog (and trying to make that in some aspects more like Hamster) I'm going to shape Hamster according to my personal preferences (also somewhat as an experiment in starting with somebody else's application opposed to starting completely from scratch). I'm documenting my thoughts and activities at: http://live.gnome.org/ProjectHamster/Ideas Best regards, Bruce
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