The Automatic Rule-Based Time Tracker (arbtt) is a background daemon that stores which windows are open, which one has the focus and how long since your last action (and possibly more sources later), and stores this.
This is also software that will, based on expressive rules you specify, derive what you were doing, and what for.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Tracks X properties like window title, class, and running program, and you write rules to classify those strings as you wish; but this assumes that the necessary data is present in those properties.
- Mapping from the raw window titles to sensible “tags” is done by a configuration file with a powerful syntax.
- arbtt-capture saves one data sample per minute but this is configurable.
- Statistics program lets you derive information from the generated log file.
- Supports CSV export of time by category in various levels of granularity in a ‘long’ format (multiple rows for each day, with n row specifying a category’s value for that day). These CSV exports can be imported into statistical programs like R.
- Cross-platform software – runs under Linux and Windows.
Website: arbtt.nomeata.de
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Joachim Breitner
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
arbtt is written in Haskell. Learn Haskell with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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