Zeitgeist log manager will let you set which apps & files you want tracked

By , Published September 3, 2010

Many users remained awed and paranoid over the extent of data that Zeitgeist is able to collate and display – from what song you were listening to when you were writing up your shopping list in Tomboy to which picture you were editing at 6.23pm on the first Tuesday in June!

All of this is useful in varying ways and to remain so Zeitgeist logs all it can by default.

But what if there are things you don’t want logged?

Blacklisting stuff from being logged is a feature already present in Zeitgeist – it just lacks a user-friendly graphical window to do it in. To rectify this Zeitgeist supremo Seif Lotfy has mocked up a potential UI to give the feature greater accessibility and is seeking some feedback back from you on the design.

“It uses much from what Sezen has to offer” Seif states in his post on the GUI, “…we use the same categories and the searching functionality. So when you search the categories with results get highlighted to allow you to control the logging of the results.”

  • You can stop Zeitgiest logging everything by toggling the Incognito mode, setting ‘Logger Status’ to ‘inactive’.
  • You can specify which applications Zeitgeist tracks data on under the ‘General’ tab
  • All other items can be enabled/disabled from their respective lists

This is just some initial mockups. If you want to join the development please join #zeitgeist on irc.freenode.net and don't hesitate to ask for guidance. If you have a better idea for mockups please don't hesitate to present it to us.

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  • http://twitter.com/inkubux Francis Belanger

    Great mockup, Zeitgeist is really an awesome tool

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  • http://twitter.com/explodingwalrus Carl Draper

    I’d like a nice howto on how to install an configure Zeitgeist

  • zekopeko

    I want something simple. That window is an overkill.

    Something like this:

    http://i.imgur.com/OG22P.png

    The “Clear recent activity…” button would simply be a copy of Firefox’s “Clear recent history”.

    Any suggestions for improving my mockup? I’m not happy with wording.

  • daas88

    Thank God! I’ve been wanting this for a long time!

  • Marklark

    Zeitgeist should automatically realise when a user has opened an Incognito window, or switched to private browsing mode (depending on browser) and not record any URLs from that browser. Does it do this already?

    Also, I’m not sure that the UI mockup is consistent with the rest of GNOME/Ubuntu, is the convention to put a list on the left with ‘Add’ and ‘Remove’ buttons on the right? Seems very Windows-ish to me. I may be wrong, of course. :)

  • Anonymous

    SabNZB has a nice feature to suspend downloading for X (user entered) number of minutes that I think would carry over and be very useful in Zeitgeist. Suspend logging for X number of minutes. There is even a lovely bit of space on the top right where it would fit “Suspend logging for [text box] Minutes.”

    That way you don’t have to worry about forgetting to enable it again afterwards, heaven knows how many times I stopped a download before SabNZB and forgot to resume it before leaving the PC, doesn’t happen any more :]

 
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