keeper is an app that keeps track of which keeps track of which application is active. Every 300 seconds it sends the data to a server (by default https://keeper.sofialondonmoskva.com - it is defined in keepers/input/macos/keeper/AppDelegate.h). It is really helpful to know how you use your time but we couldn't trust the commercial productivity meters sooo.. here it is :) simple productivity meter in less then 600 lines of code
When you start the client application it checks for configured UID if it does not have one it gets brand new (128 chars) from /generate/uid/ and stores it.
Every 2 seconds the app gets current active window, if it is safari/chrome it gets URL hostname from the current tab, and stores it in a local dictionary. Every 300 seconds the data is send to a server using SSL connection. There is no information which can link IP<->UID in the database the only place where you can link those are in the web server's access log.
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MacOSX (>=1.6): download from keeper-binary-macos-10.6.zip and just start it, or open input/macos/keeper/keeper.xcodeproj and compile it, click on the status icon (that looks like a K inside a clock) and select
Productivity reportand enjoy. -
linux (proof of concept) (keeper/inmput/linux/keeper.sh) here is how it looks:
[jack@jazz linux]$ sh keeper.sh
productivity report url: https://keeper.sofialondonmoskva.com/[your unique id, kept in keeper.uid after first start]/report/
Thu 16 Jan 17:42:20 CET 2014 - curl -X POST -d '{"unknown":3"emacs":56}' https://keeper.sofialondonmoskva.com/[your unique id, kept in keeper.uid after first start]/input/1389890540
...
the report page looks like this:
if you set productivity to -3 it will ignore the application and will appear at the ignor list (bottom right corner)
install - backend (or use the default one which runs on https://keeper.sofialondonmoskva.com)
The backend is simple sinatra application that uses active_record
$ git clone https://github.com/sofialondonmoskva.com/keeper
$ ruby app.rb db:migrate up # this will create simple config.rb with simple ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(:adapter => 'sqlite3',:database => "db.sqlite3"))
$ thin start -s 3 --socket /tmp/thin.sock -e production
simple nginx config (nginx rox!):
upstream backend {
server unix:/tmp/thin.0.sock;
server unix:/tmp/thin.1.sock;
server unix:/tmp/thin.2.sock;
}
server {
listen 443 ssl;
access_log off;
error_log off;
keepalive_timeout 0;
server_name keeper.sofialondonmoskva.com;
root /keeper/backend/public/;
location / {
proxy_pass http://backend;
}
}
Do not forget to recompile the keeper client to use your URL instead https://keeper.sofialondonmoskva.com
There is no access_log and error_log and we can not link UID<->IP, of course as you know 'there is no place for truth on the internet', that is why we have published the backend code and you can run your own keeper-server and own your data. Since we do not have unlimited resources there is a simple throttle mechanism that allows 1000 POST requests per IP per day per instance (defined in backend/app.rb MAX_REQUESTS_PER_DAY).
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