Chrono Maxi

Chrono Maxi is a personal time tracking software that helps you monitor and analyze how you spend your time on your computer. It consists of a Rust backend that captures your activity data and a Next.js frontend for visualizing and interacting with the data.

Features

• Captures active window titles and timestamps using system-specific libraries.
• Stores activity data in a SQLite database.
• Calculates time spent on different activities and programs.
• Provides a RESTful API for the frontend to fetch activity data.
• Offers a user-friendly frontend interface to view and analyze time tracking data.
• Supports different time frames for data visualization (daily, weekly, etc.).

Prerequisites

• Rust programming language
• Node.js and npm (or Yarn/Bun)
• SQLite
• xdotool (for Linux)

Getting Started

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/Andrew-Pynch/time-tracker.git
cd time-tracker

2. Install xdotool

linux

sudo apt-get xdotool

macos

brew install xdotool

3. Run the tracker / web interface

First Terminal (web interface)

cd frontend
cp .env.example .env.local_secrets
bun run local

Second Terminal (tracker)

cd tracker
cargo run

Contributing

Make a PR and if its good or cool I will merge it :-)