12/16/2023 0 Comments Manictime tracker![]() It is more that ManicTime is a solution for a specific situation. That isn’t to say that I expected it get counted. If I am out playing Pokemon Go or playing some game on the iPad while I listen to the TV, that doesn’t get counted. The one hole in all of this down-to-the-second accuracy is that it only tracks games I play on my Windows box. I have spent time waiting for a blops bridge doing world quests in WoW, so sometimes my EVE time is spent playing WoW. My World of Warcraft sessions tend to have a lot less time spent tabbed out as well, which is why it comes in ahead of EVE Online despite the fact I have probably spent more time with EVE Online launched. I had an audio book running and played for almost two hours straight without tabbing out once. You sit on the blops for an hour, all the while doing other things, waiting for the FC to say in your ear, “Wake up! Wake up! Bridge! Bridge!” Then you have a 20 minutes or so of activity, after which you’re back on the blops waiting again.Ĭompare EVE Online to the stretch afterwards where I played Civilization V. (Cainun has trouble with time and pinged us to log in about 45 minutes early.) So there were some stretches of time where the game had focus but where I might have otherwise been tabbed out into other apps while I waited for things to happen.Īnd on Black Ops fleets the time spent tabbed out can be hilarious. I logged in an alt and was doing some stuff in Jita while waiting for us to undock. You can see the periods of time when I was tabbed out because we were still docked up.Īnd even some of the EVE Online time isn’t for that fleet. However, the gray bands show when EVE Online was actually the foreground application, and the total for ManicTime is just 1 hour and 25 minutes. That is 2 hours and 20 minutes of linear time. I was up and in a fleet in EVE Online between 6:30p and 8:50pm one evening. But, if focus is required for time to count… well, then you start to see how much time I spend tabbed out of the game. I would say, without a doubt, of the applications that spent the most time launched and running, EVE Online would easily be at the top of the list. ![]() This definitely has an impact on some games.ĮVE Online probably takes the biggest hit from this. It only counts the time that a given application is in the foreground and active. ManicTime, which was meant to be used to support billing activities, is much more granular. In the past, when I measured time using things like XFire or Raptr, they watched the executable and would give me a total of how many hours it was active. One of the interesting aspects of ManicTime is how it counts time towards specific applications. Keep your nose clean or ManicTime will rat you out. Or which server and room you spent time in on Discord. Or, which Twitch streamer you watched for how long. If you are interested, see which browser you had running, which web sites you visited, and how long you stayed on any given page. ![]() ![]() It also goes down to the individual document level. It will tell you what apps were in use on a given day. I was a bit surprised that EVE Online was that far behind WoW, but we’ll get to why that is below. World of Warcraft reigns supreme, even though I have taken some time off from it now and again this year. Broken out by percentages, the top ten from January 1st through June 30th were: EVE Online was perennially problematic with Raptr, for example, and simply wouldn’t get tracked as often as not.Īfter six months of running ManicTime I wanted to see what I had played so far in 2019. And the services themselves had their own issues tracking time. ![]() For a couple of years running Raptr would send users a nice annual report showing their top games played, which was fun. That was largely due to how they presented your data… which wasn’t very well at all. I had previously tried this sort of thing with XFire and Raptr, but found those to be generally unsatisfactory. If you don’t, or haven’t noticed… well, you probably have probably stopped reading by this point. If you read the Month in Review posts, you may have noticed that there is a new section each month that reports what I played according to ManicTime. As I mentioned back in the Month in Review post back in January, I started off the new year with the time tracking application ManicTime in order to see what games I was really playing, and how much I was playing, over time. ![]()
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