When this happens you will see the following dialog. ManicTime will detect that by copying autotags to tags some of the tags will overlap. In the image below, I first manually created a tag, then selected the same time and clicked on copy autotags to tags. When copying autotags, there is a possibility that the same time was already tagged. In the image below, autotags will be applied only to the selected section. To copy autotags to tags, click on 'Copy autotags to tags' button. You can copy all autotags for a day or you can first make a time selection and then copy just those which are within the selected time. You can copy autotags to tags on any given day. When you copy autotags to tags, tags are created just as if you would create them by hand. That's why we included an option to copy autotags to tags. With autotags, summary can be completely different six months from now. If you are doing any kind of billing, you usually want your history to remain the same. When the rules change, so will the autotags. While tags are always created manually, autotags are calculated for each day separately. Then click on the down arrow on the right side and choose Add to autotag to add current filter to autotag. Click on Applications timeline to select it, then in the filter at the bottom write: Let's say that you want to autotag all activities where you've used Firefox and there is a word 'manictime' in title. Then in the bottom right, you need to right click on Skype and choose Add to autotag.Īdd to autotag window is helpful when adding rules, but sometimes you need to add your own more complex rules. You can do this by clicking on Applications timeline to select it. Lets take a look at another example, lets say you want to autotag Skype as 'Communication'. In this case you need to pick the second option. You don't want every visit to (search, email.) result in Mail autotag. So the question is, how can you set up an autotag for GMail? When you right click on one of the GMail URLs in ManicTime, you get this window When you are using it, ManicTime will show URLs similar to this one on the Documents timeline Most of you are probably familiar with GMail. Similarly clicking Add to autotag on an Office document will show this: So if you click Add to autotag on an URL, you will get view tailored to URL. 'Find' part will change based on the underlying data. Once you click Ok, autotag timeline will start to fill up. Lets say you want to tag '' as 'Browsing'. Bottom part is the tag to which you want this rule assigned. Top part of the Add to autotag window shows the rule, so what ManicTime will look for. Right click on any activity on any timeline (usually rules will be based on Applications or Documents timeline) and click on Add to autotag command. So autotags can sometimes be more general and sometimes more specific. I can say when I visit 'tag as 'ManicTime, Help', but its impossible for me to create a rule which would know whom I was helping. This level of detail is almost impossible with autotags. On the other hand, when you tag some work manually you can be very specific, for example 'ManicTime, Help, User X' with note 'Help about autotags'. With autotags it is very simple to make this tags more specific, so for example 'Browsing, Weather', 'Browsing, Social networks'. With manual tags you probably just assign those 20 minutes to 'Browsing, News' and you don't care if it was facebook, news about space or weather. For example lets say you check the news when you come from lunch. One more thing to keep in mind is that autotags can be more general or more specific than tags. That means that when the rules change so do autotags. Autotags are calculated based on rules you define.This is the main difference between tags and autotags: Autotags are just rules, so they will work on any day in the past. Creating autotagsīefore we add our first rule, lets spend a couple more words on the nature of autotagging. Go to Timeline editor -> Add timeline and choose Autotag type. You can also add Autotag timeline manually. If there is no autotag timeline, ManicTime will offer to create one for you. Take a look at this video for a more visual explanation. In the image below, I'm adding all Firefox usage to autotag "Browsing" To add Autotag timeline, right click on some activity you want to autotag and choose Add to autotag. These rules may be different for each of us, but the fact that we repeat certain tasks each day is not. For example a visit to is most likely always Surfing, similarly using Outlook can always be Email. The idea behind autotagging is that you don't have to enter all of the time manually.
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