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frans-fuerst / track

personal computer usage tracker

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explicit name #11

Open 1000i100 opened 8 years ago

1000i100 commented 8 years ago

"Track" is short, it's easy to speak and probably to remember, but it's not significant enough to be found with and online search. What's your specificity over other open-source time tracker ? automatic tracking. so the name should contain "auto" or "automatic"

auto-time-track
auto-time-tracker
auto-time-tracker-daemon (if you split the tracking feature in a standalone module and the UI in an other)
time-tracker-daemon
automatic-time-and-use-tracker (a bit too long)
your-personal-big-brother
my-big-brother
the-all-seeing-eyes
auto-time-reporter
automatic-usage-tracker
auto-usage-time-tracker (probably the best keyword stuffing name for SEO with the 2 first ones)
auto-usage-time-reporter

frans-fuerst commented 8 years ago

Hi GammaNu, thanks for your feedback. You're right, 'track' is currently hard to search for and probably I'll reconsider the name. By now I didn't find a short and easy to remember name yet and I think it has to be short.. How did you find track?

1000i100 commented 8 years ago

I find it via stackoverflow, after some hours looking for automated time tracking, open source, self hosted.

JoelAzaria commented 7 years ago

Suggestions: Trackmatic Clockmatic Timematic TimeAddict (play on sound of Timematic)

Am considering trying this out and came across the topic, thought I might offer some alts of the top of my head.

(looking for alternatives to Chrometa btw, after they lost 2 weeks of my data and handled the event rather ummm, poorly to be kind)

stderr-enst commented 7 years ago

Also as someone coming from stackoverflow: I agree that track is hard to find by its name. The only short and witty thing I can come up with at the moment would be something like TitleTrack (or any variation of that)

In the end it describes what it does: tracking the titles of windows and assigning times to that. I guess if you'd search for "Title Track application", or anything similar, it could be unambiguous enough to show up. On the other hand it is still not very unique.