ActivytyWatch

ActivityWatch is an app that automatically tracks how you spend time on your devices. It is open source, privacy-first, cross-platform, and a great alternative to services like RescueTime, ManicTime, and WakaTime.

• Website

aw-server

• database: /home/varac/.local/share/activitywatch/aw-server/peewee-sqlite.v2.db
• Config, logs, cache directories
• Activitywatch server Web UI

Install:

pamac install activitywatch-bin

Enable and start aw-server-rust as a systemd service:

ln -s /opt/activitywatch/aw-server-rust/aw-server.service ~/.config/systemd/user/aw-server.service
systemctl --user daemon-reload
systemctl --user enable aw-server
systemctl --user start aw-server

aw-client

• aw-client
• docs
• examples

Install:

pamac install aw-client

Watcher

• Watchers
• ActivityWatch/aw-watcher-vim
• aw-watcher-table monitors whether you have set your height-adjustable table to sitting or standing

aw-watcher-window-wayland

• Wayland support
• aw-watcher-window-wayland

Install:

• aur package is outdated and has a conflict with activitywatch-bin, which is needed for the server component
  • Local patched AUR git package at ~/projects/timetracking/activitywatch/aw-watcher-window-wayland-git including the aw-watcher-window-wayland.service service unit

Steps for patched AUR git package:

cd ~/projects/timetracking/activitywatch/aw-watcher-window-wayland-git
makepkg -i
pamac install openssl-1.1
systemctl --user enable aw-watcher-window-wayland.service
systemctl --user start aw-watcher-window-wayland.service

aw-watcher-web

• aw-watcher-web
• Firefox addon has been removed from Mozilla site
  • Self-building makes no sense since "loading unsigned extensions is only possible in Firefox Nightly and Developer Edition"