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RescueTime[https://www.rescuetime.com/] Does a really good job for me - it sends me a weekly report of how I spent time that week and has a good map of which apps/pages are productive and which are distracting.
@ohadisohad I use RescueTime too!
But the problem is it only adds app the time. Not enough.
What kills you is going to Facebook for 4 seconds every 5 minutes. Yes, it adds up to 1 minute over a morning, but it's so much worse than browsing for one minute!
I like to compare this to falling asleep: If you hear a SHORT alarm every 5 minutes, will you ever fall asleep? And if you keep listening to an annoying alarm for 5 minutes and they you get to go to sleep, isn't it easier?
@ohadisohad I love rescue time, but the weekly reports aren't enough. I need a daily report so that I can do better incremently.
@aboundlessworld @maneesh @_vojto +1 for open-source the project. I use Pavlok and it's awesome tool that has API.
@gigitsui Ooops. I'll talk to our lawyers about that. Wait, we don't actually.. Sorry, I'm just joking, but I wasn't expecting it to be on Product Hunt under the spotlight.
To answer your question, it uses Amplitude, but only 1 event – Launch, to track how many active users we have. And there's a signup form (which you can skip) connected to Parse, but it doesn't do anything yet, only creates account in Parse.
We built that because in the future we would love to share anonymized data (with user's consent of course) with researches – but it was all going to depend on whether anybody would like it or not.
I usually keep tabs pinned, I wonder how Escape manages that? Ex: I have a separate window of chrome with all social network websites always on, but I use it only a few times a day. How does Escape handle this?
Another problem I faced, I use product hunt from the chrome extension, it doesnt monitor the usage from the extension.
This would work for me if it came with an iPad app since most of my social media and content consumption happen there.
@giridharvc7 I see a lot of Mail opens as well, even if I don't use it at all. Looks like everytime I open Gmail, it shows Mail open as well.
Pretty nice looking Mac app to track website usage!
EDIT: However, everything I do on a day to day for my job, actually counts as a distraction haha!
Would love to be able to edit it and put Product Hunt as a non-distraction for me 😬!
EDIT #2: I keep getting "you should sign up for Focus Time to help with your distractions", its not overly invasive because of the interface in the app, but would happily pay a few $ to just not have it come up
I hope @_vojto can jump in here today!
@bentossell Hey guys, sorry about being late to the party – I was taking a break from the internet.
Soo. I see that a big concern is that FocusList ad. Well, we built Escape really to be a marketing gimmick for FocusList. It appears about every 20 times you launch the app. We didn't think it all the way through, and really just wanted to see the reaction – but I'll be watching comments & reviews closely and updating how it works in the next version.
Next, a big issue is that you can configure what is and what isn't distraction. I heard complains from users in Japan about this – as they have completely different set of distracting websites.
Would anyone be interested in contributing if we just open-source this?
@_vojto @bentossell App is pretty cool and gives you linear view of things and where did you got distracted. Which is awesome. It has a nice UI as well.
Thing is when I downloaded it I spent five minutes searching where can I customize settings to set up what actual distractions are. So if you open source it I bet community would help to make this feature live!
Here's the obvious question... Is Product Hunt registered as a distracting website?
@antoneliasson haha... well if it is then apparently I'd be wasting about 15 hours a day and doing no work 😝
@jarizwarts have you read Slack, I'm Breaking Up With You? haha.
Depends on the person though.
As a remote worker and community manager, I need it
@bentossell Welp, I think it's kind of dawning on me that I have a serious slack problem...
@bentossell I agree, this app wouldn't work for me as I'm a social media manager and I'm on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, etc. during my work hours. Apps looks gorgeous though.
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