This tool tracks the count of open tabs you have, and plots them over time.
When I'm working on a problem, or exploring a new idea, I'll open a new browser window and start searching. I'll discover related ideas that I should look into, new things to learn, and often, more problems to work on. I thought it would be neat to be able to display this data visually.
This is what my open tab chart looked like while I was working on this project. You can see the points in time where I solved a problem I was working on (sharp decrease in open tabs), and the points where I discovered new problems to solve (sharp increase in open tabs).
This package has been released on pypi.
$ pipx install open-tab-tracker
$ open-tab-tracker --install$ open-tab-tracker --help
Usage: open-tab-tracker [OPTIONS]
Open Tab Tracker
Options:
-a, --add-datapoint Add a datapoint
-i, --install Install in crontab to run at startup
--drop-database Drop the database
--graph Opens the graph in a browser
--print-db Print the database
--uninstall Uninstall from crontab
-v, --version Print the version
-h, -help, --help Show this message and exit.
See the project homepage for more details:
https://github.com/alichtman/open_tab_tracker
| OS | Firefox | Chrome / Chromium | Safari |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ |
| macOS | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Windows | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
- Data is stored in a
sqlite3database at$XDG_DATA_HOME/open_tab_tracker.db. - Firefox tab counts are derived from your firefox profile session backup recovery files. You can read the implementation details in
browsers/firefox.py.