Digital Cheat Sheet

Wakoopa is pretty cool application/website that keeps track of your computer usage throughout the week. It monitors what applications you use, how much you use them, and gives you recommendations on other applications to use. The service runs via a tiny application that you download via their website: www.wakoopa.com and it can be installed on PC, Mac, or Linux. The application does keep track of web activity too, but you can easily disable that in the settings. What makes this service so useful is that it gives you great statistics and does a good job of recommending useful software. On the website you can also follow others and see what software they use on a regular basis as well as view alternatives to the software that you are already using. For instances, when I use Microsoft Word on Mac I can click and see that iWork’s Pages is a good alternative. The service is free so it does not hurt to try it, maybe you will discover something interesting about yourself.