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Then, I select the Tags timeline and get a neat list of how much time I spent on which project that day, which I then transfer into my company's time reporting tool. Simply by hovering over the recorded applications, documents, and screenshots, manually dragging in work blocks, and tagging them. It takes me about 3 minutes to tag a regular work day after the fact, without any use of auto-tags. And even with that, I disagree that it decreases productivity.

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While I do have a Pro license, I only very rarely use the automation features. I never ran into any of those bugs they mention have been fixes, so I assume they didn't occur for everyone. I don't use the report feature, but I do use screenshots and it's been very stable and reliable for me. I don't think I've ever had it crash on me in all that time. I can't share that sentiment, I've been using ManicTime for around three years now and I'm very happy with it. The bottom line: A program that is intended to improve your productivity, but will actually decrease it. The list goes on, but you get the picture. Half of the time, the reminder to log your away time just pops up randomly, regardless of whether youвЂ™ve been away from the computer or not.

There is a feature to remind you to log your time when youвЂ™re away from your computer for a while.

The result is that now the screenshots screen just doesnвЂ™t display any screenshots at all.

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The idea is good, but the feature is full of bugs, from errors in the display to straight away crashes. Дљbout six months ago they introduced a screenshots feature.

Some reports report nothing at all, like the usage details in the timesheet.

And it takes them months to fix just the most obvious and annoying bugs.

They create versions intended to fix those bugs and add new features regularly, but, after almost a year of use, my experience is that every new version introduces more bugs than it fixes.

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Even if you manage to deal with all the grammar and spelling weirdness, you get a text that doesnвЂ™t even tell you how to use the program, but rather mentions in very confusing terms some of its features, which seem to be randomly selected. ThatвЂ™s not the only problem, though, I suspect the writer canвЂ™t write properly in his own language either. Their grasp of English is very basic, their writing has the quality and the huge amount of mistakes youвЂ™d expect from a lazy high school student of English as a second language (which is probably what the writer was at the peak of his writing abilities). It looks like it was written by the same Slovenian guys who created the program. Most of it is obsolete, doesnвЂ™t make sense or both things at the same time. When you purchase the full featured version and start using the automation features ManicTime drops its beautiful princess mask and reveals itself as the ugly nine headed monster it really is. In order to track your time efficiently you need to automate repetitive tasks, and the automation features (like automatic tagging) are only available in the full version.

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However, the trial version only provides basic functionality. The interface seems nice and intuitive, and there are many features intended to keep track of your time usage in different ways. I checked the trial version before purchasing it, and I got a very misleading positive impression. This program has a very nice price, and you get what you pay for.

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