This version of the project has been abandoned, if you are interested about this kind of code, look here: https://github.com/ActivityWatch
A complete RescueTime replacement, for the open world with Zenobase.
NOTE
- This software is under development and is not stable.
- There is only Linux support at the moment, feel free to contribute support for other platforms! (See X11Watcher for reference)
Logs the time spent by the user in different tasks on the computer.
Install the package with sudo python3 setup.py install. Once installed you can run the program with the command activitywatch. If you wish to run it programatically you may either program your own start() function (see main.py for reference) or run the default one with the following code:
import activitywatch
activitywatch.start()
Alternatively, you can install and run it from a virtualenv. If you wish to run it from a virtualenv then you'll find the executable in $your_virtualenv/bin/activitywatch after installation.
When you run the program the first time, a configuration file will be created at $HOME/.activitywatch.json, you must edit this file with correct settings in order to get some modules to load. This system will be improved upon in the future.
Since a stable version of activitywatch has yet to be released there are a few bugs every early user should know about, these are generally tagged with high_priority and you can find them all by following this link.
ActivityWatch currently only supports Linux systems using X11 (if you use Linux and don't know what X11 is, you are probably using it). It has not been extensively tested so keep an eye on the logs and report any bugs you find!
A more user friendly approach to installation and usage might become available in the future, depending on interest. Such a release might have Python bundled for non-python3 systems (with py2app and py2exe, on Linux it will likely still depend on Python 3.3+ being installed since most users probably don't want bundled Python).
Logs every activity on a computer and saves it to a JSON file or uploads it to Zenobase. It is designed to be easily extendable.
We think we need logs on our lives, so that we know what we said, did, how well we did it and how much time we spent doing it. Not just so we know, but so that we can improve upon it.
There are already services doing something similar. But they are often closed source, costly, lack mobile support, buggy and feature incomplete. For a programmer closed source is very frustrating as it prevents one from solving the imperfections of existing solutions. So this is an attempt to start from scratch with the intention to make what came before obsolete, with the hopes that what might one day make this obsolete has taken advantage of our code and published it under a free license so others may follow. Some alternatives are open source however (and pretty damn good), but they often lack in features when compared with proprietary services, which is sad.
I was aware of the existance of (most) of these when I started, but didn't find them satisfactory. I'm listing them here since I think it's important for me to disclose the alternatives you have if you are looking for something similar to this project. Also, having multiple datasources never hurt.
- selfspy
- arbtt
- WakaTime (specializes in monitoring code editors, partially open source with centralized data storage)
- RescueTime (closed source, centralized data storage)
- ManicTime (closed source, offers server software)
- Time Doctor (closed source, centralized data storage)
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