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Comment author: BaconServ 26 October 2013 08:45:34AM -1 points [-]

As a baseline, I need a program that will give me more information than simply being slightly more aware of my actions does. I want something that will give me surprising information I wouldn't have noticed otherwise. This is necessarily non-trivial, especially given my knack for metacognition.

Comment author: linkhyrule5 26 October 2013 08:57:39AM 1 point [-]

By definition, I can't really guarantee that information it gives you will be surprising. I can tell you that I consider myself a fairly luminous person and that RescueTime still managed to surprise me.

At any rate: I also don't think you're going to get better than RescueTime. It keeps track of everything, does it down to the second, and does it without you having to notice - and it certainly helped me, so there's one data point.

Comment author: BaconServ 26 October 2013 07:41:20PM 0 points [-]

I see. I'll have to look into it some time.