Track what you are spending your time on.

• It logs the current open window title and whether the user is active every 15s.
• Reports to be done. Ultimately I want to classify in "deep work" and "slacking" and see when I am most productive.

Place into ~/.config/autostart/activitytracker.desktop:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Activity Tracker
GenericName=Tracks what you spend your time on
Exec=/home/user/Downloads/activitytracker/tracker.sh
StartupNotify=false
Terminal=false
Version=1.0
Categories=Utility;
Type=Application
X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true

Then restart.

Or start it manually with:

$ /home/user/Downloads/activitytracker/tracker.sh

Watch the recording:

$ tail -f ~/.local/share/activitytracker/log

• Create ~/.local/share/activitytracker/classes defining in each line:

  • Name of class
  • t as separator
  • Regular expression for matching "title :: executable"

  for example:

  Hobby   ~/Downloads/activitytracker
  Lit     JabRef
  Programming     /usr/bin/gedit
  Programming     IPython
  Programming     /usr/lib/gnome-terminal/gnome-terminal-server
  

  • The first matching class is assigned.

• run report.py:

  $ python report.py
  
  day of the year
  |
  |   hour of day (four for each 15 minutes
  |   |
  v   v
  DDD-HH Hobb Lit  Prog Rese   <-- classes
   66-16 ====
   66-16 ====
   66-16 ===       ==
   66-17 ====      =
   66-17 ====
   66-17 ===       ==
   66-18 =    =         ===
   66-18           ==== =
                   \^
                   |
                   bar shows time fraction
                   spend on that class
  

2-clause BSD