Track activity to allow productivity feature

[Goaman]

Feature

Track activity when using VSCode. For instance:

• Executing a command from "Quick Open"
• Executing a command from a shortcut
• Clicking on a tab
• Focus on a pane
• ...

The more the activity tracked, the more we can do with it.

Purpose

• Someone want to learn new command/shortcuts but don't know where to start.
• Someone already knows many command/shortcuts but don't know which one they don't know that will increase his efficiency.
• Get insight from inefficient usage (e.g. from data visualization).

The question to solve is: Which are the most important commands/shortcuts/features to learn/discover that will most effectively increase my productivity and efficiency?

Having the activity tracked will allow building an extension that:

• Have a view that filter out the command already known.
• The view shows a list of the commands/shortcut never used.
• The view order the commands/shortcuts/feature by their relationship with the one I already use.

Conclusion

To allow this kind of improvements, it is required to add a tracking feature of the activities and expose them through the API.

What are other benefits can you think of from tracking activities and exposing them in the API?

[jrieken]

/duplicate of #26729

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