To make it easier at a glance to see what you've been working on I would like sub-tag colours to relate to the parent tag. do do this I usually manually pick a colour in the same part of the spectrum as the parent tag, but I think it would work just as well to 50% 50% mix a new random colour with the parent colour.

This could be the method of generating the default colour when you 'skip' a parent tag colour, then you can over-ride it as per usual.

Perhaps the percentage should be 70-30 or something else, but just so it looks related to the parent but not identical.

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!