It would be great if you could set usage goals for computer usage/applications/documents.

For example, say you want to use Firefox only 30 minutes per day. You could have a feature which tells the user if they are within their goal, on-track to meet their goal and or if they've exceeded their goal and by how much.

This could be implemented as minimum or maximum values based on actual duration and/or percentage of daily/weekly/monthly usage, etc.

I also would welcome features about setting goals for computer usage, various warnings and so on. For this purpose I need to use other software in spite of the fact that I really like ManicTime :(

Here is one example of a rule

If app name == firefox
&&
if window title == * Google Reader *
&&
if total time > 30 min

== Alert user weekly goal exceeded

OR

If app name == microsoft outlook
&&
if total time > 2 hours

== Alert user daily goal exceeded

Edited by user Monday, January 24, 2011 3:15:50 PM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

For the sake of simplicity, here is my take on this feature and how I would suggest implementing it from a user's perspective;

1) Focus on the "Usage Goals" feature within the "Tools and settings" menu;

- Add a "Usage Goals" tab (between Tracking & Privacy...)
- Add a checkbox to "Turn on Usage Goals"
- Add customization options such as "Enable Alerts", "Enable Popup Alert/Audio Alert", "Nag every x minutes, if goal is exceeded", etc.

2) Within the "Day" tab, focus on simple delivery of goals;

Specific to the "category" child window;

- Add right-click menu to categories menu to add/manage usage goals per application
--- Adding Goal > Set usage goal in minutes or hours, turn on alerts (note that turn on/off alerts should alert the user if the global setting is turned off, and allow them to turn it back on if they truly want to enable this)
--- Managing Goal > Same as above, allow the user to change the goal if they wish

Add 3 new columns, "Used percentage of the goal", "Remaining Time", "Usage Goal"
Add headers to columns to identify "Application Name", "Usage Percentage", "Usage Duration", and the columns mentioned above as well.

3) Add goal statistics;

- Top overused applications with details about "Total Time Used", "Total Time Over Goal", etc.



Hopefully this will help you focus on the backend of this idea.

Jared.