ActivityWatch

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Related topics	Media Tracking, Time Tracking
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ActivityWatch is an open source app that automatically tracks how time is spent cross-platform on devices, mainly PC and smartphone. It is a privacy-first alternative to services like RescueTime, ManicTime, and WakaTime. It can be used to keep track of productivity, time spent on different projects, screen habits, or just to understand how users spend their time.

Basic functionality

ActivityWatch works by installing the application on your computer and/or smartphone. While the app is running in the background it automatically collects data on when and for how long you are using different applications and automatically classifies them. ActivityWatch comes with a web interface which currently has activity overview (most used applications by day, timeline, most time spent on a website) and bucket overview (when a bucket was last updated, listing of the latest events).

The project has a quite complete documentation site regarding its installation, use and customisation.

Exporting data

If you go to the “Raw Data” page in the ActivityWatch webui you can download any of the buckets which contain every collected datapoint in ActivityWatch as a single file. You can also export data programatically using the REST API (not documented).

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Projects that use this tool

Self researchers who used this tool
ErikBjare

We talked about this tool in the following meetings
2022-11-03 Self-Research Chat