What is Reddit's opinion of TimeSnapper?

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Thanks for your informational reply!

There is way to get around that, I think. If the program was offered as an open source standalone program with vaguely similar function/reporting to something like timesnapper, the user could limit exposure of their login information to their own responsibility and conflate data from computer use and academic results.

I have used Timesnapper for years. I’m a lawyer and review my day with Timesnapper Screen Shots taken every minute. It’s not automated but it’s worked pretty well for me.

Great work! i have taken before-and-after pics, but never tried filming... that's brilliant! I have to try this :)

I did something similar once, but recording my screen instead of my room. The idea was that I'd be able to watch how I worked, how much time I was wasting.

The super cool part though was, it was like a video journal of my life. I could go back to any date and time and see what I was doing!

(Eventually, I was watching timelapses of myself watching timelapses...)

I need to find that app again... Aha!! It's still online! TimeSnapper -- (free "classic" version, for Windows)

I'm using an application I found called TimeSnapper. For shorter clips i'm taking 1 capture every 4 seconds. I aim for 24-30fps so you'll need around 360 shots to make a 15 second video. For the longer clips, like the video in the OP, I took 1 shot every 10 seconds over 3 hours which left me with 1000+ frames.

You can then use Lightroom to create a basic timelapse or something like After Effects if you want to add audio etc.

That along with some careful positioning of the debug camera =]

Ok, so here's what I figured out. Theres a small program called Timesnapper That basicall takes a photo every X seconds. Then it makes a folder with all these photos, and you can pull them together yourself in a video editing program, such as after effects, and then render out a video. Having codex problems thou, but that's another story!

I use and <em>love</em> TimeSnapper - It's not free, but for $24.95 I can go back and look (as in screenshots, but it also records program-titlebars) at what I was doing at any particular time from the past 2 weeks (or more, depending upon settings) whenever I like. Plus, I can "flag" time that I'm away from my computer for things like phone calls or face-to-face meetings.

It also offers a timeline of what programs I was working in, what file I was working on, and for how long, which is nice because it can tell whether I was working on "Client ZXY Design v1" in Photoshop, or goofing off on Reddit.

The nicest feature? I can have it automatically generate a timesheet of each day, or week, or month so I can see how much time is spent on what and bill accordingly.

Well worth the one-time cost for me.

I used TimeSnapper - really liked it. It also saved a lot of rework on one occasion where I deleted something by accident and could go back and look at a screenshot of most of it.

Used in conjunction with time/dated notes to explain the gaps (e.g. meetings, helping someone else), it made it easy to do accurate timesheets / invoicing retrospectively, although you'd need a separate app for invoice generation (I just used a word template) and/or filled in timesheets in quickbooks which they used at the last place I worked.

It won't generate invoices

You can use a program like ~~ManicTime~~ TimeSnapper to take screenshots periodically.

You can then have a scheduled batch file to delete shots older than X amount of time.

Your completely free solution Google voice, timesnapper, and an hourly rate with retainer in a contract.