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this is super awesome. I've been using rescuetime for around two years, and although it's worked great I'd love to see more feature progress. Also there's no 2FA support which is quite scary for something with such sensitive data.

I love your dock icon as well. I was trying to build a custom version of that but for my tmux line, but rescuetime's API doesn't provide realtime info.

Will you open up some APIs for the data? I'd love to be able to do my own analysis and build my own tools. I'd also like to backup the data to s3

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Thank you! I'm researching what will be the best way to export data and connect to other apps (IFTTT probably).

In case somebody would like to export the tracked information: it's stored in SQLite in the ~/Library/Application\ Support/Qbserve/ and has a very simple scheme of HistoryLog tables for each month that refer to Activities table that refer to Categories and Apps tables.

thanks! that's easy enough :D

Your first comment in the thread was a near-perfect match of how I see the time tracking space. Will definitely hit the free trial. Very interested to see how it progresses.

Great to hear you're considering data export. I'd love to display time usage in a tool like Gyroscope (https://gyrosco.pe/), which already integrates with RescueTime and a variety of other activity-specific trackers. Visualizations and stats in Qbserve are great for diving into the details of time spent on the computer, while exports to more generalized tools help show how the big pieces of life fit together.

Thank you for the tip, I will see how we can integrate it with Gyroscope.

Second this. As you seem to focus on software developers as your target audience it would likely be greatly appreciated with an official open dataset and structure thus enabling us to use the data in a much more intelligent way highly specialized for personal workflow.

A built in console/scripting engine would also be a nice to have but not necessary if the data can be exported/extracted.

I use Bitbar to show my RescueTime productivity pulse in my menubar. Pretty handy if you ask me!

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