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Quick Reference

Click the above image for a quick overview of the various options available in WatchMe.

If you’d like to know more about how to use WatchMe, check out the FAQs and the Tips and Tricks pages.

 

 

  • Tim Holland
    #1 written by Tim Holland 1 month ago

    Why is it when I think I can write a little app to solve a problem, someone has always done it first and better!!! Many thanks, its perfect for me :-)

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  • Adipatus Sutapida
    #3 written by Adipatus Sutapida 1 month ago

    Can it be used as a countdown timer?????

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    • Scott
      #4 written by Scott 1 month ago

      Not really – WatchMe is designed to track time that accumulate working on things, not as a countdown timer. There is functionality where the application can alert you when a certain time has been reached (which is kind of like having a countdown timer – but of course not the same).

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  • Scott
    #5 written by Scott 1 month ago

    This looked promising – I need a multiple timer app. But the lack of ability to run one or more timers in “countdown” mode makes this unusable for me. Please think about adding that ability as a future feature.

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    • Scott
      #6 written by Scott 1 month ago

      Thank you for your feedback. I’ve been getting a lot of requests recently for countdown timers, so I am looking at adding this feature in the next version. Stay tuned!

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  • Mal
    #7 written by Mal 1 month ago

    I downloaded your program v2.1.3.7, tested it and was quite impressed. There’s one important feature though missing. It doesn’t stop automatically if there’s no desktop activity for x amount of time. I had to create a batch file using another software to do this. I used to use Jianway Desktop Timer on WinXP but it doesn’t work on Win7 64-bit. There they have an option: “Stop timer after user idle for x minutes” and then another option: “Deduct idle time from active timer”. Great features.

    What I like very much about WatchMe is that it saves the time every minute. If the computer goes down those minutes are saved even if the program wasn’t closed properly. This was my main problem with Jianway. Which file is it that gets updated every minute? I understand that it gets stored in an xml file but that file is not quite comprehensible. How do you read it? Although your export option as a csv is another excellent feature, I would still like to be able to view when (what time exactly) the minutes were incremented?

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    • Scott
      #8 written by Scott 1 month ago

      The idea of stopping the timer when the user is idle is one I have had on the back burner for a little while. It will not be in the next version but I will certainly look into adding it in a version or two after that.

      As for the configuration file – it stored as an XML file that contains your settings along with the current information stored for each timer (name, current time, etc). The file is called WatchMeConfig.xml and it’s location can be determined by going to the Help | About dialog box. The next version will allow you to store this file (and its automatic backup) in a different location. For example I’m running a beta version right now that stores the XML file in dropbox, so not only is my data saved every minute, it’s also backed up remotely.

      In a future version I plan on adding detailed logging so you can get more details about the time being collected within the application. This would allow for more detailed reporting on your timer usage.

      Hope that helps. All the best!

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      • Feri
        #9 written by Feri 2 weeks ago

        Please, find a solution for this situation: whenever I hibernate my notebook forgetting to stop the timer, the time counts for entire time my computer is turned off/hibernated.
        It would be nice to stop all timers on hibernation/sleep (and as sugested above, idle).

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        • Scott
          #10 written by Scott 2 weeks ago

          I will look at adding a fix to the application that will stop all timers when the PC is put into hibernate or sleep. This will either be in the next release or one shortly after that. Thanks!

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  • Jen
    #11 written by Jen 1 month ago

    Is there a section here on how to use it? Like, step 1, click on the time to set an alarm. Step 2. choose countdown or set time…. Stuff like that. I can’t seem to find an Instructions Section. Thanks!

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    • Scott
      #12 written by Scott 3 weeks ago

      I’m going to work on putting together more detailed help and instructions after I release the next version.

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  • shao
    #13 written by shao 3 weeks ago

    This is a very handy timer app.

    but if i set a music file as alert, how do i stop the music after it’s triggered?

    i closed the message box, but the sound file did not stop simultaneously.

    otherwise its perfect.. Thanks for the great work !

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    • Scott
      #14 written by Scott 3 weeks ago

      At the current time the sound plays asynchronously and cannot be stopped. I will add this as an enhancement in a future version. Thanks!

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    • Scott
      #15 written by Scott 3 weeks ago

      Change of plans – I was looking at this in the code and just went ahead and changed things so that the playback will stop if you close the dialog. If you set up an alert that plays a sound and doesn’t show a dialog, the sound will still play without stopping.

      This enhancement will be in the next version (ver 2.2) which I hope to release soon.

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  • Anna
    #16 written by Anna 2 weeks ago

    I really hope this isn’t a redundant question, but I promise I actually tried to find the answer! What type of audio files are supported by the alert customization? I have a small .mp3 file that I downloaded but it doesn’t look like it’s supported (doesn’t show up in the ‘Open’ window). Thanks!

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  • Steve
    #19 written by Steve 2 weeks ago

    Yeah, I like the simplicity of the design, perfectly minimalist, but without a countdown timer it is valueless at least for me. I’d like to use it for ebay auctions or other things that I know will happen at X:YZ o’clock and would like to set a timer to alert me. Implement that and EVERYONE will want this timer.

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