activity_tracker

Log, analyze, and visualize when you were using your computer.

Installation

This package is currently not on PyPI. You need to install it manually:

$ git clone git@github.com:MartinThoma/activity_tracker.git ~/activity_tracker
$ cd ~/activity_tracker
$ pip install -e .

Some additional dependencies you might want to install:

# Dependencies of xprintidle
sudo apt-get install python3-dev libx11-dev libxss-dev

# System dependencies for the autostart option
sudo apt-get install screen

Usage

$ activity_tracker --help
Usage: activity_tracker [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

Options:
  --help  Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  log-activity
  visualize

Start tracking:

$ activity_tracker log-activity
Token: 383d723a-85bb-4a88-89db-5e74fefa6ba3
Store activity log at: /home/moose/activity_log/2021-11-04.csv
last_activity: 150
...

This produces a CSV file like this. That CSV can be visualized via:

$ activity_tracker visualize --help
Usage: cli.py visualize [OPTIONS]

Options:
  -i, --input FILE   [required]
  -o, --output FILE  [required]
  --help             Show this message and exit.

Start Tracking on Startup

This depends very much on your operating system.

On Ubuntu, you can install screen:

sudo apt-get install screen

and add this line to your ~/.profile or ~/.bashrc:

python -m activity_tracker autostart