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Software Idea: Automatic ScreenShot Journal

Every N seconds, a windows service takes a screen shot of your desktop and saves it as a thumbnail. At the end of a week you can use this to determine what you were doing at any point in time. You can then quickly allocate periods of time to certain projects/project tasks in your timesheeting software.

Note that this is *not* a big brother style application where the screen shots are sent off to some managerial person who can then fire you for playing winnable solitaire Whack Your Boss too much.

Gus points out that you could also watch a high-speed animation of your week, particularly if N is small enough.

Timesheeting, by the way, is the most unenjoyable activity in the world. Its very existence is proof that a powerful and malevolent force, just beyond the flimsy barriers of reality continually warps the universal fibril.

If I wasn't so lazy I'd forward this idea to the LazyWeb...





'Green' on Thu, 28 Apr 2005 00:40:57 GMT, sez:

My timesheeting software informs me everyweek that I have 754 days to change my password. Brilliant!



'matt' on Tue, 14 Jun 2005 14:34:44 GMT, sez:

fuck. would someone really make this please !! it would be similar to wheresjames publisher



'Charlie' on Fri, 26 Aug 2005 12:49:53 GMT, sez:

I'm gonna give it a shot, if my schedule permits...



'Bert' on Tue, 28 Mar 2006 06:46:45 GMT, sez:

what about this:

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2006/03/01/timesnapper-automatic-screenshot-journal/



'Mr. Code Writer' on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:22:54 GMT, sez:

Though you've likely already found what you need, AutoScreen might be what you're looking for: http://www.16software.com/autoscreen

It supports a bunch of different formats, and not only can you save screenshots to disk but you can have AutoScreen upload the image to ImageShack and/or an FTP server. It also has upload throttling, password protection, ghost-mode and customizable timestamps.



'Thanks' on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:22:47 GMT, sez:

Thanks Mr. Code.. I'll be purchasing this in the near future.

PS: It looks bad when we KNOW your a ADMIN at the site =)



'Mr. Code Writer' on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:33:08 GMT, sez:

@Thanks: I'm glad you like AutoScreen. I hope it meets your needs for a long time to come.

In response to your PS, I don't think it looks bad at all. The blog poster submitted his software idea, and I simply suggested my program, which seemed to match his description; it was a relevant post. At least I am disclosing that it is indeed my program. :)




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