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#1

Hey,

a few days ago i was looking for simple automated time tracking tool. my idea was that it will just record the title of the active window every 10 seconds. later i see all my records in one list where i can search and assign (via drag and drop) each "application using" to an activity (e.g. "Work on Project X"). at the end i can create a report for a specific time period, so i can see that last month i worked 6 hours on project x, 20 hours on project y, 3000000 hours checking mails and reading feeds :).

step 2 would be that all the usings are assigned automaticly to activities based on window title filters ("Google Mail*Firefox" => Reading Mail, "Project X*Eclipse" => Project X....).

i found a tool called slife, which is almost wanted. but its not open source and only available for windows and mac.

so im thinking about doing it myself for fun in python. i attached some mock screenshots.

i would like to hear from you guys, what you think about this, would it be useful for you?

#2

WOW!!!! jwagener, I was looking for exactly this kind of program. And If you wrote it using Python, that makes it even better, since it can be modified easily for specific purposes.

jwagener, is there any was to get the sources, please?