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I built this mostly from the point of view of personal productivity\u002Fimprovement. The idea is…",{"value":60,"source":54,"evidence":61},"Individuals focused on personal productivity and self-improvement",[62],{"id":57,"by":11,"text":58},{"value":64,"source":54,"evidence":65},"Personal productivity and improvement",[66],{"id":57,"by":11,"text":58},[],"unknown","launched","solo",{"praise":72,"objections":103,"requests":156,"questions":179,"alternatives":198},[73,81,92],{"value":74,"source":75,"evidence":76},"Useful reminder for people who get distracted or forget what they were doing","commenter",[77],{"id":78,"by":79,"text":80},"20624699","egoisticalgoat","I like the idea a lot, because i have memory problems and tend to get distracted very easily, which causes me to often forget what i was doing. 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TagTime (which is Free, made by the Beeminder people, and plays nicely with their goal tracking product if you want it) is scheduled such that you are equally likely to be…",[104,123,138,149],{"value":105,"source":75,"evidence":106},"Constant interruptions every 10 minutes would hurt productivity",[107,111,115,119],{"id":108,"by":109,"text":110},"20624445","Hitton","Being interrupted every 10 minutes seems like terrible idea which would most likely destroy your productivity.",{"id":112,"by":113,"text":114},"20625688","stephc_int13","Wow. I can't believe that anyone would ask to be interrupted every f'ing ten minutes for nothing. I can't stand being interrupted more than once or twice a day.",{"id":116,"by":117,"text":118},"20624709","xchaotic","Obligatory “I’m updating the tracker every 10 minutes “ Why would you do it to yourself? It’s yet another distraction for any deep work.",{"id":120,"by":121,"text":122},"20627864","mac_was","I waited all my life to be interrupted every 10 minutes... jokes aside , this is a bit pointless, at least from a dev perspective, when you are finally in the zone to let a tool…",{"value":124,"source":75,"evidence":125},"Fullstory and Heap analytics scripts raise privacy and GDPR concerns",[126,130,134],{"id":127,"by":128,"text":129},"20625125","heinrichhartman","I like the app, but I am a bit confused by the data usage. * As a starter: The source code is only a JS snippet. No HTML in there. * Right away I \"fullstory.com\" appear in the…",{"id":131,"by":132,"text":133},"20625160","chmod775","- Am I violating EU law, if I use the same patterns in my Apps? (I am EU based.) Most certainly, yes.",{"id":135,"by":136,"text":137},"20625962","kotrunga","This is a great idea, but where is the privacy? 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