I may be just missing something basic, but I just started using the trial (v1.5.7.0). When I leave for the day, I just lock my machine. When I unlock the next morning, ManicTime asks me to tag my away time. I've tried tagging it as overnight or something similar or not tagging at all. It seems that my "Day Start" is properly recorded at the correct time (the first unlock in the morning). The problem is when I look at the timeline statistics (e.g. active/session lock), the overnight time is included. If I manually delete the block of session lock time from overnight, everything is calculated and displayed as I'd expect. I basically don't want this time tracked at all. Is that possible?

Loving the idea of the product so far and still learning available features for statistics, tagging, etc. Hopefully, I can get this one little issue resolved.

Thanks!

I've deleted the overnight block from each night so far. Next Monday I'll have a nice long one from the weekend to screenshot :) I'll post that to this thread.

Thanks!

Pic 1 is the usual operation. Basically it tracks everything while it is running.

Pic 2.
Any activity on any timeline triggers the day start and day end, except the red activities on Computer usage. If you have a tag which starts at midnight, then your day will start at midnight.
So how MT calculates this number is very simple, just first thing it finds on any timeline and the last one, while ignoring red stuff on Computer usage timeline.

I think you will need to delete the locked part, there is no other way to get rid of it.

I must admit though, that I still don't understand why it bothers you. What is the difference if it is there or not? Start and end times are the same.

Got it.

We had a little discoussion. Currently if computer is in sleep or hibernate we still track this. We will change this so that sleep and hibernate will not be tracked by default. I added this to our todo list for the version after the next one since we are just finishing the next one.

If I understand you correctly this will not help in your case, because you lock it, so the machine still runs overnight? In your case we would have to have a setting like 'Ignore overnight inactivity'. This one is a bit more tricky, I added it to our todo list as well, we will see what we can do.

Hi All,

This is my first post on the forum and I'm glad to see this discussion. I should probably add this to a feature request but since the topic/discussion is underway I will add my two cvents here.

I "wish" I could indicate when MT should track my time.I guess I am looking for a weekly calendar which allows me to define what my normal week looks like. This would help with workday start time vs computer usage start time.

For example, I start my day at 7am but I do not get to use my computer until 9:30am because I'm in meetings. Since I have not touched my computer until 9:30am when I do use the computer for the first time, I get an away time which includes the overnight time.

I want to ignore that overnight time and have MT start tracking from 7am onwards until the end of my day (say 6pm).

The screenshot was "borrowed" from another program but essential I would like to define when MT tracks my away time for each day and for each hour of the day.

In davemayo2000's case overnight time could be marked as "not to be tracked" so he could have the overnight time ignored.

There is a possible interaction with "shift day start by (hours)" stuffbut it could also help with defining multiple inconsistant shift work .

Does any of this make sense?

Thanks
Darren

Edited by user Wednesday, November 9, 2011 6:11:44 PM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Well, it seems to me that any active computer time should be tracked. That I completely agree with.
It's the idle or away time that could be scheduled.
However, the best option would be two schedules; one for active time and one for inactive time.
This gives the user total flexibility in tracking their time.

Just my two cents
Darren

Both answers seem right to me.

Thanks
Darren

Thanks for the feature. It will be greatly appreciated. I looked at the release notes for v2.2 and had a question or two.

How do I indicate "overnight activity"? How does the program know to hide the inactive block? Are you doing some "magic" like determining if the inactive block spans days or it larger than a certain duration?

Again thanks for the feature.