Franz: Franz doesn't work with Timing tracking

[pavold]

I use several services in Franz app (FB messenger, Trello, Microsoft Teams) on my Mac and I am not able to track them separately in the Timing app. I think that this is due to the same name in the app header "Franz" instead of, e.g., "Franz - Trello". Can you please fix this somehow?
I contacted the developer of Timing to provide more information on how that could be achieved.

Expected Behavior

I can see when I was using which service.

Current Behavior

All tracked data says just "Franz".

Your Environment

• Franz Version used: 5.0.0-beta.18
• Operating System and version: macOS 10.13.4

[MrMage]

Hi, developer of Timing here. Timing normally tracks apps with a mix of Accessibility and AppleScript. In the case of Franz, Timing is only be able to extract the window title.

The easiest way to improve on this would be to update Franz's window title when switching chats to always include the current "location" (e.g. chat name).

Alternatively, you could add an Apple Event handler to Franz that would return that location. This is essentially a small "mini-AppleScript" command that Timing would send to Franz to get back that location.
If you are interested, I can provide a short (~20 lines) snippet that shows how this is done in Objective-C. I'm not sure how this is done in Electron, but I suppose that you could simply call into the corresponding NSApplication methods from JavaScript.

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[MrMage]

This is still relevant.

[Maxim-Filimonov]

Agree I'm using Timing and would love to see integration with Franz

[mmroczka]

Please add this! I also am looking for this feature. It's weird that Franz doesn't better display what you're doing anyways. :/