Automatic activity time tracker application.
OS: Linux License: GPLv3 Status: Beta
InFocus is an automatic activity time tracker that monitors the currently focused window and stores the amount of time spent on it on a daily basis. The application was developed as a way to monitor my self, and rises from the concern that I may be trashing significant amounts of time on stuff that doesn't matters. So InFocus should help in the auto-evaluation of our daily work on the computer making it easier to make decisions concerning our daily schedule.
The application is developed in PHP and makes use of php's built-in webserver to host the user interface and uses chromium or firefox as a medium to display the web interface. Currently the --app flag of chromium is employed to get an experience more similar to that of a typical application.
Before using the application you have to fetch the composer dependencies by doing:
cd infocus
composer install
Dependencies
- php - for interface and activity logger
- php-sqlite - the php pdo extension to store activity data
- chromium - to display the user interface (recommended)
- firefox - to display the user interface (optional)
- xprop - get active window
- wmctrl - information of active windows
- xprintidle - detect if the person is away from keyboard
If installing directly to system as root user:
cd infocus
./install.sh
The ./install.sh shell script also supports de DESTDIR environment flag, which can be used to easily package the application for distribution by distro packagers.
cd infocus
DESTDIR=~/infocus/install ./install.sh
cd infocus
./install.sh remove
To start tracking your daily activity is needed to launch the infocus logger by enabling the systemd infocus service for your user account.
systemctl --user enable infocus
systemctl --user start infocus
This will track all the applications that you use and how much time you spent on them. This information is stored on a sqlite database located on:
~/.config/InFocus/activity_log.db
The web interface can then be launched from the applications menu.
For help on the available infocus commands, at your shell just invoke:
infocus help