Setting this as ManicTime Server as there is no "ManicTime Android" listed.

Its great that ManicTime is available on Android .. but one of the big problems is that Android is filled with limitations that prevent ManicTIme from doing more.

I think the easiest solution that would work would be if ManicTime operated only within a selected Profile (e.g. Personal or Work) ..

On GSuite you can use the MDM to allow company devices to have a Work Profile and a Personal Profile. Work Profile then has a series of restrictions, forced installs, etc.

I would like to track the location of my employees, the time in various apps, etc .. BUT .. I don't want that to be surveillance. So therefore if its only showing me the time they are spending in their Work Profile on their android phone .. then as an employer I'm only seeing their work time ..

Also - for location tracking .. it would be nice if the employee can click on each item and choose what gets sync'd to the server... Much along the lines of my other suggestion. It prevents ManicTime from being deemed a form of employer surveillance.

http://support.manictime.com/forums/222041-feature-requests/suggestions/38996095-selective-server-sync-employee-privacy-enhancemen

Currently an employee, working from home, tags all their time in ManicTime. But its currently an all or nothing approach when it comes to syncing to the server.

Instead .. have an indicator bar on the top of the timelines that shows which segments are to be sync'd to the Server ... an employee selects time on any timeline .. right-clicks and chooses "Submit to Server" .. then that time segment is sync'd to the server based on the server settings of 'what to sync" (E.g. sync everything or specific timelines)

This allows employees to keep track of their time and put things like "Personal, Bathroom Breaks" without it being uploaded to the company server.. It will also avoid ManicTime use in a company from being considered "Surveilance" .. employees will be more apt to use it for their own benefit because they don't have to worry about sharing with their employer.

Allow the client to require a specific certificate or certificate authority on the server. Manictime carries a lot of potentially sensitive information for me. In theory if someone wanted, they could create a server that would accept any credentials from a manic time client and accepts the entire upload by pretending to be the server the client normally connects to. This would allow the client to validate that the server is in fact who is expected. And as a result stop this potential information leak.

On a more practical note where would this be useful:
You have a laptop that connects to a manictime server at home on a specific IP. You take it somewhere and connect to a different network with a malicious actor that created a fake server and controls DNS or happens to pick the right IP that my desktop client wants to talk to. The client wont check who its connecting to and it would upload all my data to someone else.

Next scenario is basically the same but for an android phone. The actor would now potentially have all my call history including contact names and phone numbers.

For outbound connections firewalls generally won't help... Not without a lot of magic anyway.

Small suggestion for Away time.

Issue: having that window opening each time can be frustrating if one wants to close it most of the times.

My example: this issue for me occurs when I study with a PDF of exercises opened on the PC, so screen goes off after 5 mins but I take 10mins to do an exercise, when I come back to see the PDF then the window appears with 10min away time, each time I have to close it and that's annoying. I already set 15 minutes to "track inactivity if PC is idle for more than", but that doesn't seem to affect Away time. (translated from Italian)

Solution: I suggest a different mode (maybe optional): when returning to the PC, instead of a big window popping up in the middle, let a small notification in bottom right corner appear (you can use Windows notifications, but I think it's better to implement an overlay system, so not a real window but just an overlayed thing) so this thing appears and if I want to tag I interact with it, otherwise I can still use the PC even with it shown as it's small, and it vanishes after like 5 seconds of using PC without interacting with it, so I don't have to close it manually like normal window (which doesn't close itself even if I click away).

Hope you got it, this would be great as a snappy modern update for your already good app. Thanks!

When synchronizing data with manic time Server, all data (timeline, screenshot) etc. is available on manic time Server transparently to admins. This might be useful in some Environments. However, to us this means that we cannot protect our employee’s privacy when they synchronize with a corporate ManicTime server. If we had the option to encrypt content (especially screenshots) on the Client with a secret key only known to the employee’s manic time Desktop Instance (employee decides on which device he or she uses the key), we could protect the employees privacy and also provide the ability to synchronize multiple Clients to a corporate Server.

At the moment, the default settings for screenshots is "keep for 3 days". Sometimes, an installation/update can revert the settings to the default, which will automatically delete all screenshots older than 3 days. For me, it deleted over a year's worth of screenshot data as a result of an update. Fortunatelly, not all was lost as I had a backup of some of the data.

The system should include a test that if it needs to delete an unexpectedly large number of screenshots, it warns you in advance. The prompt could be something like "Manictime will delete X as a result of a change in settings. Would you like to proceed" (where X could be the number of folders (i.e days) to be deleted, or the number of screenshots, or just the text "a large number of screenshots") with the buttons being "Proceed" (in which case the files are deleted) and "Change Settings" (in which case, the files remain, and you are taken to the settings menu to adjust the screenshot settings).

In normal practice, when the system is just deleting the expected number of screenshots as a result of the reaching the days/size limit under the current settings, this pop-up message would never appear.

Backstory:

I'm using the free version of MT on Windows for self-tracking for over 3 years.

Recently I wanted to see total time working on particular drawing, and I was able to do it like this:

Statistics - Custom - Add - Timeline: Documents (at top) - Files (at left).

Now at right there is a huge list of filenames gathered in these years, some with paths, some not, even some with quirky path formats like "(D:) drivename / path / deeperpath / file_name.ext" (with parentheses, slashes and spaces exactly like that).

The filelist takes around 10 seconds each time to generate or sort.

At first, every file was checked. I selected all with Ctrl+A (works instantly), clicked one of the checkboxes (MT client UI went unresponsive for several minutes, maybe over 10 min), then everything became unchecked.

I found some files I wanted to sum and checked them back (one by one it works instantly too).

Finally, refreshing all statistics takes around 5 seconds, less than generating the list of files in UI.

Suggestion:

It would be a lot easier to enter some pre-known filename wildcards, than digging in the filelist. Simplest I can think of - one pattern per line in a text area, that could be shown instead of checklist by an option. For example, using radio-buttons at bottom of "Edit Statistics" dialog:

Match:
- checklist any
- checklist all (only show/enable for the Tags timeline?)
- wildcard any
- wildcard all.