Keywords

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Choosing right keywords is necessary for TimeCamp to work properly. Those words "tell" TimeCamp when you start and finish working on a project.

TimeCamp detects those words and automatically assigns time to a particular project. Keyword should appear in the name of active window. Most common examples of those names are:

• folder's name or file's name
• application's name
• address of a website (or part of it)
• project's name
• name of a client

There are a couple of condisions that keywords need to meet. First of all, a keyword need to be unambiguous. For example, if you want to measure time spend on programming, using the word "programming" as a keyword will NOT be a good idea. The word is too general and it doesn't really tell TimeCamp anything specific. It would be better to use application's name (for example NetBeans) used to programming or the title of project we're working on.

It's also extremely important to use unique keywords. In case we created many tasks, we need to avoid using the same keywords in multiple of them.

What would be a great idea is to avoid common words, like "www", "website", "dashboard".

It's important to break the habit of entering the description of our activities as a keyword. For example "creating a website", "writing a document", "modyfing database", "working on graphics". Those informations are not useful for TimeCamp. For examples mentioned above it would be a much better idea to use address of website we're working on, name of document we're editing, name of database, name of application used to work on graphics.

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