On one hand I'm super enthusiastic about your project.
This could help battle procrastination, organize your time in a long run, bill your clients more efficiently, etc. 20 years younger, hyper productive me would kill for such product.
But then I recall when I accidently suggested TimeRescue to my boss at one time, and suddenly he was skimming though everyones daily logs to see if they're spending 100% of their times in business facing apps.
When I first heard about "covid mouse mover devices" that faked activity for remote workers I thought it was a joke. Seriously.
But I'm afraid this is the dystopian future. Employers constantly looking at your screen and getting spreadsheets with your daily effort.
This was my first thought too. The last generation of activity tracking, while still dystopian, was a little different at least in that it was mainly statistical. So action-wise, it might point managers at "potential problems," but doesn't make its way into a performance review (e.g. "your mouse only traveled 81.72 screen-miles this quarter, 2 standard deviations below the mean, while you also scored the lowest on number of keystrokes with vscode as the active window..."). If a manager really wanted to summarize exactly what was done they had to spend an almost equal amount of time to watch. To some degree, this alleviates that.
Yea, honestly I would hate if people used this to track _other_ people, especially bosses. I wanted to build something that gave people more agency to do more with their precious time, but there definitely is a fine line here.
Probably someone long ago said the same about hope for pointy sticks not being used just for hunting animals. Yet someone will likely make a pointy stick whether you do it or not.
This could help battle procrastination, organize your time in a long run, bill your clients more efficiently, etc. 20 years younger, hyper productive me would kill for such product.
But then I recall when I accidently suggested TimeRescue to my boss at one time, and suddenly he was skimming though everyones daily logs to see if they're spending 100% of their times in business facing apps.
When I first heard about "covid mouse mover devices" that faked activity for remote workers I thought it was a joke. Seriously.
But I'm afraid this is the dystopian future. Employers constantly looking at your screen and getting spreadsheets with your daily effort.
Overall, very disturbing product.