TimeSnapper 3.1: Attack of the the Red/Green Stripes

There's a new release of TimeSnapper, which brings us up to version 3.1.

You can now see your productivity profile at a glance, when playing back your day.

This turned out to be a real "must have" feature. As soon as I'd implemented a rough version of it (on my home computer) I was frustrated that it wasn't yet available on my work computer. There was no going back.

We call it 'red/green' striping, because it shows productive time in green, and non-productive time in red.

You can quickly filter to see only the productive time, or only the non-productive time.

To teach TimeSnapper about what time is considered productive or non-productive you use a simple wizard. You list some applications as 'always productive'. And you can indicate keywords that are a sign of productive time.

If you aren't interested in productivity tracking, then you get a smooth blue timebar instead.

It took a while to iron out the bugs, because this is a feature that I implemented, not Atli. To be fair, there were a lot of edge cases to uncover.

Also, automatic updates are enabled again. So you can automatically upgrade from whatever version you are on, right up to version 3.1.

Thanks to all the new users, and all the ongoing users who help us out with feedback and encouragement.

Also, please, if you see something we can do better, please tell us. We try. By god do we try!

'karate man' on Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:24:40 GMT, sez:

Ha ha! Programming.Reddit.com. Good to see it is marked as unproductive!

And you should use adblock to kill the ads from firefox.

TimeSnapper looks very sleek. But is it WPF?

'Scott Hanselman' on Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:32:52 GMT, sez:

What if you're red/green color blind like 5% of men?

'lb' on Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:25:56 GMT, sez:

Great question Scott!

I've run some simulations at vischeck.com and will email you about it.

If anyone with either type of red/green colour blindness has some feedback or suggestions, please speak up, or email support@timesnapper.com direct!

'ChasW' on Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:08:07 GMT, sez:

I'm colorblind. I can tell them apart, though maybe not which is which. My suggestion would be to have a "colorblind" option that would toggle to different colors. Blue is a good one, because it is never (as far as I know) confused with red or green. In my own applications I use blue instead of red.

'Paul Kohler' on Thu, 10 Jul 2008 03:48:25 GMT, sez:

Thats a really neet feature. So tell me, is the percentage in the pic your normal days work ratio? ;-)

'lb' on Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:04:47 GMT, sez:

@Chas -- thanks for the info. We're looking into solving it one way or another.

@Paul -- no this was a session of tinkering on the home computer at night. ;-)

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