Let your browser record the activities you want to remember tonight.
Maybe you know this: you work on different stuff all the day and at the end of the day you forgot what you did. Or when. This extension turns time recording around: instead of remembering yourself to track your time your browser asks you periodically: "What are you doing right now?". Just answer this question if you want or don't if you are in flow or whatever.
Just define the timeframe for being asked about the actual activity in the options. Then a small form will popup periodically. It will automatically go away after some seconds or by using the ESC key. Write a little note into the field if you want, it lasts just a moment. If you don't (e.g. because your activity has not changed since the last record) it's just fine.
Once I read an interesting article (https://ralfw.de/2017/08/zeiterfassung-mit-activity-sampling) where the author describes
- the motivations and needs for time recordings
- the frustration about existing time recording tools
- the idea behind push versus pull time recording
The domain seems simple enough to use it in training projects. Since I wanted to learn a bit about the development of browser extensions it seemed to be a good way to combine learning and doing something useful :).
This extension is not available via Google Web Store since it is not considered ready for being published. If you want to give it a try you need to clone the repository and add the code manually to the browser as described e.g. here: https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/getstarted
Right now there are some ideas I will work on in the future ... probably ;)
- I want to copy the recorded data to put it into other tools.
- I want some nice, simple and easy UI.
- I want to use this extension on my Firefox as well.
- I want to learn more about extension development :)
- I want to install this extension via the browsers web stores.
