A small Erlang application to keep track of how long you have worked the current day, without any user interaction. The purpose is to be able to tell you when you have worked enough for a single day. A bit like hamster.
It will not tell you what you've worked on, how much money you can bill your customers, or any of that. The idea is (1) to tell you "hey, you can stop working today", and (2) you shouldn't have to tell it anything.
Currently it uses two ways to detect "activity":
xinputto detect mouse and keyboard activitylsmod | grep ^uvcvideoto detect when a video device is active
After a "inactivity threshold", it will consider you to be "not working", and stop the timer. As soon as it detects that you are working again, it will resume the timer.
When you've worked more that your daily limit, it'll show a popup
telling you that it is time to stop working. This currently shown
using xmessage.
Although the Erlang parts should work with just OTP available, the activity detection stuff assumes Linux at the bare minimum.
There are some configuration options available in
config/sys.config. Perhaps the most interesting one is
workday_length.
This is an Erlang program, so you'll need Erlang + rebar3 to run this. To build the Erlang release, and start timetracker as a daemon, do:
$ ./timetracker
If you want to see what it does, tail the log file:
$ tail -f _build/default/rel/timetracker/timetracker.log