Mobile apps
Apps for Android and Windows 10 Mobile
Android version now supports:
-Tags / Stopwatch
-Phone call tracking
-Phone usage (including application tracking)
-Location tracking (similar to now discontinued Moves app)
I think that covers most of the suggestions in this thread, so I suggest new requests are opened for more specific features.
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I think usage should be in published version. Try to disable Phone usage and then re-enable it.
Locations is in beta, on google play store you need to find the Become beta tester button, then it will download the version with locations.
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Doug Bates commented
I'm not finding an App tracking timeline, nor Location... just Usage (on/off) and Phone Calls. I'm using the current version of the Android app from Play Store along with server 3.7.5.2
Am I missing something or are these features yet to be released publicly?
Thanks for all the great improvements and support! I'm especially looking forward to App tracking.
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Vladimir Kuksenko commented
Do you publish a roadmap for any of this? I would be interested in seeing what you plan to do, especially now with apple and google integrating time-keeping into their next OS updates for keeping track of healthy digital technology use.
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Ivan Burduk commented
Is there any progress on integrating this with Android?
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charles ruan commented
We hope to improve the app function as soon as possible, just like RescueTime, we can see the detailed record of mobile phone usage.
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Jiri commented
It would be great to have app with similar functions on Android.
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Heather Floyd commented
Are there any plans to add App Usage Tracking to the Android App? It seems it would be possible as long as the user allows "Usage Data Access" to the ManicTime App. The Rescue Time App seems to be able to view the other running apps, but I don't like how it lacks a timeline (it only shows aggregate time, which is useless for my purposes), and I prefer ManicTime in general.
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Imanuel commented
I just noticed that the tags I add on my phone are added to a main server timeline. Since the server runs on my Desktop ("imanuel-pc"), this results in the mobile tags being displayed in the timeline "imanuel-pc: tag", while the usage status of my phone is called "SM-G930F: usage". It would be less confusing for me if the timeline for my mobile tags would be called "SM-G930F: tag".
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4run commented
I think I would like some integration or assistance with using MT with IFTTT, think there could be some real merits.
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[Deleted User] commented
I'd just like to be able to tag my time for the day from my windows computer through my phone when I get home. Is there a way to do that already?
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daniel.a.weir commented
and iOS. ManicTime is great but on desktop alone i spend way too much of my time doing tracking and not enough doing work
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Daniel commented
Been thinking about this a lot since I made by last two comments :)
What about using NFC tags? They are cheaply available and can be used as anchor points to automatically take the guesswork out of where we are. Obviously not everyone is going to use them - but they are becoming more popular.
I often see gaps in my Manic Time and wonder what I was doing. Sometimes I have to run out and I'm driving. Other times its a bathroom break.. but I can't tell for sure. GPS would help with the driving, but what about in the house? That's where these NFC "anchors" would solve the problem.
So lets say I buy five flat adhesive NFC tags. I easily program them with a free app on my phone. I program the tags as URLs representing the five places I spend my time.
manictime://computer
manictime://bathroom
manictime://vehicle
manictime://bed
manictime://workSo when I'm in any of those places, I simply set my phone down on the NFC mat, and manictime now knows definitively where I am, and I can determine what I was doing and for how long.
From a programming perspective, you'd want to tap into the accelerometer events - no need to use up the battery. When the accelerometer suddenly stops or slows - you flip on the NFC and scan for a tag for 30 seconds. After reading a tag or timing out, the monitoring process goes to sleep until the next accelerometer event fires.
Also - if you make an Android application - try not to use Google Services, or write in the ability to turn them off. By doing that - you've just made your app usable by all Blackberry 10 users :)
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Daniel commented
As mentioned, tracking how long we're on the phone and which numbers, and whether its outbound or inbound would also be quite useful.
I would also like it to keep track of when the phone is asleep, and if it wakes up, for how long.
Also, similar to the documents in ManicTime - have the ability to take "screenshots" throughout the day .. "record a 10 second audio clip every 30 mins", "make a record of all of the bluetooth and wifi devices currently detected" "make a record of all access points in the area, or which one we're connected to" "use the audio to determine if its a noisy environment we're in or if its quiet" "use the camera sensor to detect if its bright or dark where we are" All little tidbits that could help us fill in the gaps later on as to what we were doing.
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Daniel commented
ManicMobile may be worthy of a separate application - but its "the other picture" of my life that I need tracked in the same way... I have given a lot of thought to what an application like this should look like. It should be able to detect if we're in a vehicle, walking, or bicycling. It should build "trips" for its autotagging - so the route we took is stored but more importantly - we were travelling from point A to point B. Time spent at Point A .. time spent at Point B. Places that we stop off at often, it should prompt us "what is this place?" and we can say "its work" .. "its home" ... etc. Same thing with frequent trips ... "Driving to/from home" ... "Driving to/from work" At the end of the day I want to see time spent travelling, and time spent at each location. Certain locations are billable. Certain locations are not. And of course - it should integrate in with ManicTime to show that I was outside and break it down into travel time and work time.
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Alex commented
I bet that the applications, emails, phone calls, sms, Geo-tagging would be extremely useful. Having this all tracked and view the report would be fantastic for the remote users, who actually spend not much time @ office, but drive around the city.
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Sebastian commented
the mobile clients should also be able to autotag according to available wifi networks(or at least accordingt to the connected wifi), same would be nice with phone cell ids. So you can automatically log that you where from time x to time z at client y.
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Sean commented
I think those are all great suggestions. And I agree that having both START/STOP for Stopwatch, plus INSERT for basically creating a time record without using the Stopwatch, would be good.
And though I can't think at the moment of a usecase for the triggers/conditions (Stopwatch started, etc.), it is conceivable to me that they'd be helpful for some folks.
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Imanuel commented
I know it might be to early for details, but it shouldn't hurt to write down some ideas (regarding the Tasker plugin):
I'd like it if one could not only start and stop a stopwatch, possibly with a tag ("START: %TAG" and "STOP: %TAG" with %TAG optional?), but insert tags into the timeline (INSERT: %TAG / %FROM / %TO).
%FROM and %TO could be optional if empty values default to the current time, in which case a stopwatch could be started / ended - which would render a separate START action obsolete.The plugin could only provide actions (like above), but also triggers and conditions (Stopwatch started / stopped / toggled / currently active) - but I don't really know a usecase for that.
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Sean commented
Excellent points regarding useful data--does one really need to know that level of minutia? I can imagine though that some might find the data in aggregate to be useful (ie, total time spent this week on SMS). But definitely better to wait and see if there's truly demand for that.
And Stopwatch with Tasker support should be pretty powerful for folks (for those who use Tasker). I think the location element could potentially even be handled by Tasker as well (eg, within Tasker configure start/stop of Stopwatch based on location).
I suppose actually that folks could potentially use Tasker to start/stop the Stopwatch (and assign certain Tags) based on certain apps (eg, when I use am using SMS, start Stopwatch and assign Tag "Texting", and stop Stopwatch on end of app usage). Might need to enable Tasker to start multiple Stopwatches though so that you don't run into collisions (and in that case, perhaps give the ability within the Tasker plugin to configure whether a given Tasker initiated Stopwatch should appear in the Notification area, or be only in the background).
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So first we add a stopwatch, with Tasker support, then we take it from there. Agreed.