ActivityWatch: Save Time With Helpful Telemetry

Working out your bad computer habits can be kind of difficult one when simple way to work out where there might be some problems is to simply track what you're doing to go back and analysis the data, one FOSS tool that stores all your data locally called ActivityWatch let's you do this.

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0:00 Introduction
0:59 How To Use It
1:44 Why
3:19 Data Modules
4:55 Data Exports
6:07 Data Interface
7:40 Data Categories
8:59 Data Timeline
9:57 Query
10:26 Installation
10:59 Alternatives
11:43 Outro

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[mrsansiverius]

- Harvest your own data
- Store it on your own server
- Sell it to the highest bidder
Congrats! You've built your own Google, but you're the one making money 💸
Problem, tech giants?

Awesome video guys! Thanks for covering ActivityWatch 🤗

Regards,
Founder & lead dev of ActivityWatch

[TheoryToE]

Virgin third party telemetry user vs Chad self hosted telemetry user.

[nonetrix]

It's just gonna tell me I spend too much time in my web browser

[AcidiFy]

& Sir Tim Berners Lee's new project
SOLID
will help immensely

I was wondering if LISP is a good alternative to JavaScript???

[aryakiran]

Is there an emacs module ? But I guess it won't help as I use exwm

[ertwro]

Doesn't work with Brave. Their suggestion for this is "use Chrome". Hard, no.

[AnzanHoshinRoshi]

Thank you, Brodie. I can see its usefulness.

[auroradraco]

Hmm, this is interesting to truly find how much you work and how much is actually procrastination

[cheatyhotbeef]

hit the virus detection on chrome when downloaded :(

[fesprogrammer]

A bit problem with ActivityWatch is don't detect automatically categories, like media or browser, and I have to do it manually may because linux, but still useful.

[escate]

it won't open at all, I've uninstalled it and reinstalled it three times and nothing is happening

[liftlinux]

Self Hosted telementry users vs HexDSL (Everything self hosted)