Show HN: ActivityWatch – Automated time tracker, cross-platform and open-source

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3 pointsErikBjare3 comments

Hi HN,

Me and my brother have been building this for a few years now and our users seem pretty happy with it, so we thought you might enjoy it too!

It's similar to services like RescueTime, but it's free & open-source and has a strong privacy focus (all data is stored locally). We've also managed to get it running on practically every platform, including Linux/macOS/Windows/Android, and even the Oculus Quest (but not iOS).

Let us know what you think!

i've realized one of the most important features for me (enough to trade other features for) is auto tagging categories. how do you plan to do that?

Not entirely sure what you mean by auto tagging, but we have rules-based categories that currently allow you to set a regex that matches on application names and window titles (and soon URLs).

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