There are a lot of Mac apps that can track almost every little piece of your life: your finances, your tasks, your music, your dog, your girlfriend. Ok, maybe not the last one, though I’m sure someone’s thinking about it. But anyway, from today on you’ll be able to track what your fingers have done on your MacBook’s trackpad.
Anatoly Zenkov (art director and designer from Moscow) has developed MousePath, a simple .jar application that records your mouse / trackpad movements and displays them on a blank sheet as black lines and dots. Lines are the actual movements, dots are the moments of inactivity.
Isn’t this genius? Below there’s my path of 50 minutes of work today.
You can download the app here. Thanks to Door Sixteen for the heads up.
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That's what rfore said 6 months ago:
This is so ironic! I just used Mouse Path to create a project for my digital art class!
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That's what JB said 6 months ago:
So awesome – why the hell did they have to do it in Java? Activity Monitor shows it taking 44% of my CPU!
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That's what Cameron said 6 months ago:
Would be a lot better if it could run in the background or at least the top bar.
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That's what Justin said 6 months ago:
Well, you can hide it and it still records. Pretty cool, even though it’s technically useless.
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