TimeSnapper 4+

This app is many things, but the most glorious is: It's an amazing insurance policy against crashes.

It is impossible to fully protect yourself against random crashes of the system — and that usually means you'll have to rewrite that really detailed technical bug report, or well-argued political rant from scratch!!

Not so with TimeSnapper: It lets you record your screen which is exactly what you need in this situation.

The app is so well-designed: Initially setting it up is super simple, and the window to browse through recordings is really well done, with nice visuals to indicate when shot shave been taken, and excellent controls to go through the images at a varying speeds. It evens has a way to auto-clean pictures (this is useful if your main usage is to recover work after a crash, less so if you are doing quantified self and intend to keep all images).

The only improvement I could suggest is the ability to change the destination folder. If you are looking to save your whole history, the size will grow very fast, and you'll need to use something like Hazel to automatically transfer to external storage.

I have been using TimeSnapper for over 10 years on windows. As a consultant who bills by the hour I find TimeSnapper to be absolutely critical to making sure I get all my time captured (especially on those days where you're hopping from one fire to the next and can't even keep up with what all you did). It's also great for personal accountability. And no cloud means no compromising confidential data.

If I wasn't so familiar with the Windows version I'd be raving for having found this great little utility that "just makes sense to exist."

Hopefully some things get improved from this point on:
- detect screensaver and nor record it
- the Productivity data 
- filtering by app