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Log everything you do on the computer, for statistics, future reference and all-around fun!

11 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 2 stories, 9 comments · first 2012-09-29 · latest 2025-10-27

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  1. There is/was https://github.com/selfspy/selfspy (not updated in 10 years).
    comment by raphman · 2025-10-27 · in Recall for Linux
  2. …ManicTime[1] (Windows), and Qbserve[2] (Mac, my app) for private productivity tracking. [0] https://github.com/selfspy/selfspy [1] https://www.manictime.com/ [2] https://qotoqot.com/qbserve/
    comment by ivm · 2018-01-04 · in Productivity in 2017: analyzing 225 million hours of work time
  3. …workflow. [1] https://hluk.github.io/CopyQ/ [2] https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BrowseKillRing [3] https://github.com/selfspy/selfspy
    comment by klibertp · 2017-12-31 · in “Did you copy/paste the info? Facebook seems to read all pasteboard data”
  4. …measure everything with a start/stop kind of tracker. I heard good things about Selfspy for Linux: https://github.com/gurgeh/selfspy
    comment by ivm · 2017-09-22 · in How I got to 200 productive hours a month
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    Ask HN: Open source rules engine for categorizing applications by productivity?
    story by reubano · 2017-06-22 · 1 comment
  6. …do? Mac: https://qotoqot.com/qbserve/ (our app, the site lacks info but it has export now) Linux: https://github.com/gurgeh/selfspy Windows: http://www.manictime.com/
    comment by ivm · 2017-01-07 · in Ask HN: What manual processes would you automate in your company?
  7. FWIW, there's already https://github.com/gurgeh/selfspy which seems to offer the same features as your tool (and a little bit more).
    comment by raphman_ · 2016-05-27 · in Show HN: Automatic private time tracking for OS X
  8. You can start too: https://github.com/gurgeh/selfspy :)
    comment by olejorgenb · 2015-09-03 · in “I have [bash] history back to ~2003”
  9. …the other items on the wishlist but you might be able to find what you were doing/watching when. https://github.com/gurgeh/selfspy
    comment by hugogee · 2014-09-05 · in Designing a Personal Knowledgebase
  10. …week and bill that to my clients. I do all my projects this way. Also recently started using this: https://github.com/gurgeh/selfspy It gives quite awesome data, and most of my workflow is known, so maybe I could hack something together…
    comment by qworty · 2014-06-28 · in Ask HN: How do you keep track of billable hours?
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    Selfspy - Tool for Personal Data Analytics
    story by krat0sprakhar · 2012-09-29 · 25 comments