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Manictime will try to extract additional data from the following applications and display it on Documents timeline:
- Internet Explorer
- Firefox
- Google chrome
- Opera
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Adobe Photoshop
- Microsoft Visual Studio
From v1.4.9 we included document tracking based on title. To use this plugin you need to have some understanding of regular expressions.
To better explain document tracking based on title work, lets take notepad as an example. If you open a document in notepad, the title of the app will show up as:
Document1 - Notepad
Document name is included in the title of the app, in this case it is 'Document1'. If we wanted to extract document name and use it on document timeline, we would just have to extract the first part of the title.
So what we need to do is whenever ManicTime detects Notepad, apply a regular expression to the title. In this case we can do something like this:
Notepad (.*?)-[^-]*$
The first part of the rule is the name of the executable, so if notepads executable is notepad.exe, we just write notepad.
These rules are set in [ManicTime install folder]/Plugins/CustomTitle.txt
You can change it there, but we recommend that you copy this file to [ManicTime database folder]/Plugins/CustomTitle.txt. If you change it in the installation folder, it will get overwritten next time you upgrade ManicTime. Rules in [ManicTime database folder]/Plugins/CustomTitle.txt will have higher priority than those in install folder and they will not get overwritten with new updates.
