
Hello.
Recently, I came across an interesting
article about controlling lost time with the help of a chess clock by
ssneg . The idea in the article seemed to me very interesting and I decided to quickly make a similar program in Flash.
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Actually, here is a link to the implementation of this simple algorithm:
http://www.boomstudio.ru/portfolio/files/experiments/timer_control/The idea of the program is very simple: if you work - click on "Work", if you do not work - on "Idleness". In fact, if you do everything honestly (click on idleness every time you enter CONTACT, talk in ICQ, coffee break / break, not to mention full breaks in work), then you can be very surprised at the numbers above the word " Idleness.
It will be interesting to me to hear your opinions about this idea in general or about the flash drive in particular (it’s sooooo easy, but in theory it does its job). At the moment, the .exe version of the program can minimize to tray and switch the time mode from the context menu (right click on the tray icon). In the near future, "hot keys" are planned, so that you can not open the program at all and not to do unnecessary gestures, as well as saving data to external files and keeping statistics on months / weeks.
PS: The fact is that I have 2 accounts on Habré (the one from which I am writing this post was created a long time ago and I safely forgot about it, but it’s good that I found it by chance today), and so,
my main account Zaminusovan is utterly impossible, and because of this I could not create a post even in a personal account, so I will be grateful to everyone who will help bring the main account to at least the stage so that I can write to a personal blog.
Thank you all for earlier, and do not forget that the main idea was from the user
ssneg , I think he will also be pleased if you thank him in the form of karma.
UPD: Thanks for the karma, transferred to "Learn to work" =)
UPD 2: I will accept any help from icon makers and / or programmers who will help me to connect MDM Zinc + .dll to catch hotkeys or to port this small application as a plug-in for FF.
UPD 3: For anyone who believes that it would be more convenient to implement monitoring of windows and that the program itself understands whether you are working or idle, I want to say that there are already similar programs, but in my opinion they are rather complicated to master. Links to such programs can be found in the comments to the
ideological post .
Further there will be links to programs that I have already found:
http://www.rescuetime.com/http://live.gnome.org/ProjectHamsterhttp://code.google.com/p/time-tracker-mac/http://mactimelog.splyer.com/http://www.slifelabs.com/http://www.vadimz.com/timer/Timer.exe - implementation of a simple timer, similar to mine from the user
ehvadimka