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A few years ago, in an attempt to increase productivity, I used a screen recorder that took a screenshot every 10 seconds and played it back at the end of every day. So I had a timelapse of how I was spending my time -- mostly online. It was very enlightening.

The most efficient format to store a sequence of screenshots in is video, because most of them will have heavily overlapping data.

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Huh. That's a pretty nifty thing to do. Just wrote a python script to do that for me and it's running in the background right now. Shall be interesting to come back to it today in the evening. Do you recall how many seconds each screenshot would show itself in the final video (basically what was the framerate?). Currently considering about 4 frames per second but would love to get your take on it :)

I did it before just saving as images and using feh to play with the playback speed. It's easy to play with so just see what works for you

It's up to preference really. I had mine set to max frame rate, then I'd use the [] keys in VLC to slow down the speed. It would take 1-2 minutes to view my day (8-12 hours).

I think at one point I used an ImageMagick script to add timestamps to them.

Originally I used a Windows thing called TimeSnapper which as a bonus lets you scrub through time and shows when there was / wasn't computer activity.

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