Personal Activity Monitoring

Name so chosen so that I can use the acronym PAM.

PAM PAM PAM! -- Michael Scott

Introduction

This is a simple script that logs the active window to a file. It is intended to be used with a cron job to track activity over time.

Tested on macOS 14.2.1

Logs are written to the log/ directory in the same directory as the script, one file per day. Note that the script will not ever delete old logs, so you will need to do that manually if you want to.

Suggested Usage

Clone the repo

git clone

Cron Job

Add a cron job to run the script every minute.

https://crontab.guru/#%2A_%2A_%2A_%2A_%2A

crontab -e

Add a line like the following, replacing the path with the path to the script.

* * * * * /Users/robertbolender/code/activity-tracking/active-window-logger.sh

Sample Output

2024-01-11 21:18:01 - [Code] .gitignore — activity-tracking
2024-01-11 21:19:00 - [Code] README.md — activity-tracking
2024-01-11 21:20:00 - [Arc] https%3A//crontab.guru/%23%2A_%2A_%2A_%2A_%2A
2024-01-11 21:21:01 - [Code] README.md — activity-tracking
2024-01-11 21:22:00 - [Code] active-window.log — activity-tracking