Apse might be a bit more popular than Time Sink. We know about 7 links to it since March 2021 and only 5 links to Time Sink. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
Hey, I’ve been building that. It’s called A Personal Search Engine: https://apse.io. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
A paid tool in this direction is APSE (https://apse.io) which bills itself as a personal search engine that OCRs intermittent screencaps. I loved the idea, but in practice it lacked polish. I agree that additional metadata like foremost application filepath/url would take this to another level. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago
I’ve been working on exactly that! [0] My info is in my hn profile, if you (or anyone reading) would like to chat about it. [0] https://apse.io. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago
I’ve been working on a very similar thing which runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux: https://apse.io. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago
Maybe APSE is what you're looking for [1]. A while back the founder sent me a link after one of my blog posts hit HN. It's a tool that continuously records your desktop and offers text search of everything through OCR. I personally found the idea interesting, but I was too afraid to ever try it out. The mere idea of a video record existing of everything that's going on on my computer, even if it's never... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago
I love that my job is sitting on my ass drawing stuff but there are definitely times when it is still Work that I have to force myself to keep doing. Sometimes I sort of sit there watching art fall out of my stylus. Sometimes I am Sisyphus muttering and cursing as I push this fucking stone up this fucking mountain for the millionth time. "Flow" is overrated IMHO. It's certainly worth building working methods that... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago
I've been happily using [Time Sink](https://manytricks.com/timesink/) by Many Tricks to do this for about a year now. It does not automatically merge into a timelapse, but this is accomplished easily with ffmpeg. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago
I use Time Sink to help me track my time, you'll need something different if you're on Windows. Source: almost 2 years ago
For time tracking I lean on Time Sink. If you want something more manual then I feel like there are a zillion task-tracking timers out there but I couldn't point you to any one in particular. Wikipedia says Toggl has an OSX app so maybe you wanna look at that one first. Source: about 2 years ago
I've used this: https://manytricks.com/timesink/. Source: over 2 years ago
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