LBTimer's help

Installation

1. Open Google Chrome
2. Sign in to Chrome with your rater Gmail account. More info here.
3. Open LBTimer's page in Google Chrome Webstore
4. Click on the  + ADD TO CHROME  button on the top right

5. LBTimer is now installed and you can see the icon at the right side of the address bar

   

6. Upon installation, you'll be prompted to give LBTimer authorization to access the Firebase database, where your work records will be stored.
7. LBTimer will work automatically when you open the Raterhub page.

Icon

LBTimer's icon appears at the right side of the address bar (Omnibox). If it doesn't, click on the puzzle icon and then on the pin next to LBTimer's icon.

The icon provides information about the current state of the extension

Clicking the icon will open the Popup menu.

Popup Menu

You can open the Popup menu by clicking on the extension's icon in the address bar.

From the Popup menu you can open the Dashboard and have a quick glance of the tasks completed and time spent in them during the day. You can also open the extension's Log, with more information about the tasks performed.

It also provides quick access to the main automation features: automatic submission of tasks, automatic acquisition of tasks and automatic reloading of the index page when no tasks are available.

In the lower part, you have a button to send the current page to the developer (!) and a view of the current timing if a task is active (where you can pause or resume the timer).

Dashboard

You can open the Dashboard by clicking on the top bar in the popup menu.

The Dashboard displays the recorded information for the current month.

You can navigate to previos or next month using the top left (<<) and top right (>>) buttons.

Clicking on the top center cell (the one displaying the month and year) will take you to the current month.

Clicking on any date cell will show a breakdown of the recorded data for that day. You can also edit that data and save it.

Hovering your mouse over any cell with data will display the calculated earnings in a tooltip. You need to configure the hourly payrate in the Settings for LBTimer to calculate the earnings properly.

At the bottom of the calendar view you can download the data for the displayed month in CSV format.

On the top right section of the screen you find 4 buttons:

• Theme: Lets you choose the theme of the dashboard: system default, light or dark theme.
• Download: It lets you download all the recorded data in CSV format.
• Subscription: It will display the account linked to LBTImer. Clicking on it will let you view your subscription status.
• Settings: Clicking the cog icon will open the Settings

Settings

• Warning at a specified time: If enabled, it will display a notification at the specified time, relative to the current task's AET (Average Estimated Time). It will also change the colour of the running clock to orange at that time.
• Autosubmit: When this setting is active, LBTimer will submit the current task when the timer reaches the specified time, relative to AET (Average Estimated Time). NOTE: LBTimer will not check that the task is complete before trying to auto-submit it.
• Autoreload: When there are no tasks available in the Raterhub page, LBTimer will automatically refresh the page at the selected interval.
• Autoacquire: When this setting is active, LBTimer will acquire the first available task in Raterhub. This feature is specially useful paired with autoreload when tasks are scarce. You can choose among three settings: disabled, always autoacquire when tasks available, only autoacquire if previously there were no tasks available (NRT).
• Autofocus: It will automatically focus the task page when there are tasks available or whenever a new tasks is acquired.
• Coundown timer: When active, the timer will run from AET (Average Estimated Time) to zero.
• Payrate: Input the hourly payrate in your currency for LBTimer to display a preview of the earnings in the Dashboard when hovering your mouse over the cells with data.
• Notify when tasks available: A desktop notification will appear when the Raterhub page is loaded and there are tasks available.
• Ring a bell when tasks available: A bell will tinkle when the Raterhub page is loaded and there are tasks available. You can also make the sound to be repeated until a task is acquired or no more tasks are available.
• Notify at AET: A desktop notification will appear when the timer Aeaches the AET (Average Estimated Time) for the current task.
• Ring a bell at AET: A bell will tinkle when the timer reaches the AET (average estimated time) for the current task.
• Timezone: You can choose between local, Pacific or UTC timezone to record the data.
• Week start: You can choose the first day of the week for the Dashboard display.
• Display adjacent months: When active, the last days of the previous month and/or the first days of the following month will be displayed if the first and/or last week of the month is not a full week.
• When tasks available, send email to: An e-mail will be sent to the selected e-mail address when tasks are available in the Raterhub page. To prevent flooding the e-mail, the notification e-mail will be sent only if previously there were no tasks available.

Custom Research links

The custom research links allow you to quickly open relevant review results to evaluate webpages, for Page Quality tasks.

It allows you to write your own research links, so that you can create your own search queries that are relevant in your locale and language.

It uses a series of "wildcards" so you can quickly research the webpage and website of your task without having to write a new search query each time. The available wildcards are:

• %url → the complete URL
• %host → the hostname
• %main → the main website, without subpages

You can assign a label to each of the 5 possible web research links to easily identify them while completing the rating task.

Examples:

Task URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/example/page/here Task language: English(UK) LBTimer: - Open it! - Check scam - Wiki

Label Custom link Action when clicked Open it! %url Opens the webpage http://www.bbc.co.uk/example/page/here Check scam Is %host a scam -site:%host Makes a web search → Is bbc.co.uk a scam -site:bbc.co.uk Wiki wikipedia "%host" Makes a web search → wikipedia "bbc.co.uk"

Task URL: https://m.lemonde.fr/francais/page/ici Task language: French(FR) LBTimer: - Main page - Reputation - Scam

Label Custom link Action when clicked Main page %main Opens the webpage https://m.lemonde.fr Reputation %host réputation -site:%host Makes a web search → lemonde.fr réputation -site:lemonde.fr Scam "%host" arnaque rapport Makes a web search → "lemonde.fr" arnaque rapport

Task URL: http://www.newsradioklbj.com/news/austin-local-news/condo-scam-suspect-charged-burglary Task language: English(US) LBTimer: - Open - Alexa - Wiki

Label Custom link Action when clicked Open %url Opens the webpage http://www.newsradioklbj.com/news/austin-local-news/condo-scam-suspect-charged-burglary Alexa %host site:alexa.com Makes a web search → newsradioklbj.com site:alexa.com Wiki https://wikipedia.org/w/?search=%host Opens the webpage: https://wikipedia.org/w/?search=newsradioklbj.com