ha, that's not bad, though it still has the problem of not accounting for:
- non-computer time
- conceptual activities (eg, tabbing between Eclipse, Terminal, Emacs and FF is all part of project A for these hours, and project B for those hours)
i'd love to see a blog post or open source code if your project works out. good luck.
edit: interesting you wanted to know time/wk and loc/hr
i'd be curious to know more metrics people are interested in.
personally, i like to see weekly deltas in addition to averages, as well as ratios between categories. i'm still figuring out the sweet stuff, tho. for instance, i haven't found "activity length" or "activity switching" useful, but i keep thinking it might be meaningful.
finally, i sometimes also track my subjective states, eg satisfied, motivated, anxious, down, tired. it would be interesting to detect patterns in both activity and state and then see if they correlate. the ultimate goal is to determine what i can do to promote good states or lessen down time.
i've worked on many projects in this area (mostly hobbies), including a full-time startup right now, so if this is an area you're interested in working in let me know.
So the $100 Screenflow records screen at a rate of about 6.5 Mb/minute, 388Mb/hour or 4.6Gb for 12 hours. That's pretty good! There is no built-in way to replay at 10x speed, at least not without exporting. However, I can actually drag the slider along the timeline, so it's kind of manual playback. It works!
I have already discovered that I spend 14 minutes banging out my previous reply in this thread. No wonder I don't have any time!
I hear you on the non-computer stuff. I don't want to wear a camera (eek), so it's back to manual entry.
About correlations - I can tell you that for me anything above 20 hours/week (on top of a day job) leads to burnout in under two weeks. After recovering I dialed it down to 18 hours and it was much, much better.
i'd love to see a blog post or open source code if your project works out. good luck.
edit: interesting you wanted to know time/wk and loc/hr
i'd be curious to know more metrics people are interested in.
personally, i like to see weekly deltas in addition to averages, as well as ratios between categories. i'm still figuring out the sweet stuff, tho. for instance, i haven't found "activity length" or "activity switching" useful, but i keep thinking it might be meaningful.
finally, i sometimes also track my subjective states, eg satisfied, motivated, anxious, down, tired. it would be interesting to detect patterns in both activity and state and then see if they correlate. the ultimate goal is to determine what i can do to promote good states or lessen down time.
i've worked on many projects in this area (mostly hobbies), including a full-time startup right now, so if this is an area you're interested in working in let me know.