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EDIT: Not that sneaky, just me completely blanking on the sentence after the actual link! Original comment below.

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Sneaky. I clicked around on the links he had on his tools and found one that looked interesting (Qbserve) and it turns out it's one of his products which I felt would have been nice to have as a note. The only indication of this is the bottom footer header which also says Qbserve.

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I'll vouch for Qbserve. I've been using it for a year and it's the first thing I install on a new machine. It's a lifesaver if you have to fill out time sheets and just the act of tracking your productive time can be a huge boost to productivity. I've probably spent a total of 20 minutes configuring it in the last year, which is pretty amazing.

I bought it partly because I like the offline tracker idea, other stuff seems to have some cloud backend. Also wanted to support development, it was on the front page a couple months ago.

Decent product, if you are looking for something like this.

I was using RescueTime for long time but then discover Timing[1] (which also works offline). Never tried Qbserve but I highly recommend Timing.

[1]https://timingapp.com/?lang=en

I downloaded this and Qbserve both over the weekend. So far is seems like Timing is better (but time will tell). However I am irked that I can't see the whole day for adding 'tasks'. For example yesterday I went out around 5PM for a movie. However the day kinda stops around that time as well.

Hi, developer of Timing here. FYI, the Timeline currently only shows the times for which it has data. If you want to add Tasks outside that time range, simply click "Add Task", then enter a different time range manually.

Timing is also good but our initial goal was to make a RescueTime alternative, so Qbserve is similar to it in many ways.

Did the copy change? It says "our automatic time tracker" and it is also on the same domain.

It's an excellent tool. I have only tried the free trial though. $40 feels a bit high. $25 or below would have been an instant buy.

I think he will also get better conversions if the free trial is 30 days instead of 10

I've been using Qbserve for maybe 6 months. It has saved me, I don't know, 4-6 hours a month ret-conning and tuning timesheets. It's also meant I've gotten paid for those trivial jobs that I always forget to enter into even the simplest manual tracker. The productivity boost (which I have absolutely noticed) is a nice bonus. I don't know what you charge for your time, but Qbserve paid for it for me several times over in the first month.

Thank you, I'm happy to hear that it works as intended!

Thank you. We set this price because it's not a subscription and you don't need to pay for upgrades.

It's not a lucrative pricing model compared to $70-150/yr competitors and going lower in a niche market would be too uncomfortable.

I totally understand. Btw I didn't know that upgrades for free. If it's on the website, then I missed it. That makes it good value.

It's in the FAQ but probably we should put a note on the landing page.

You are probably right, it just didn't register in my head. I've edited my comment.

> I think he will also get better conversions if the free trial is 30 days instead of 10

I agree. It seems that 10 days is not sufficient to get a good opinion on it.

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