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Having built a linter and plugins for text editors (multiple APIs and multiple languages to deal with), the number of integrations here is very impressive. With a few more apps covered (email (gmail), phone logs (iphone, android, skype), terminal), you could almost track all your activities related to a client seamlessly without thinking about it.

Thanks for the compliment. Yes, it is possible to track any activity you want. Members of the community have actually built a WakaTime for Skype, Hangouts, Thunderbird, etc. Since our plugins are open source and we help anyone building, it really works out.

You should check out https://srclib.org, which is an abstraction layer for writing editor plugins and other code tools that work for multiple languages. It makes it so you only need to write M + N things to support M editors and N languages, not M * N.

E.g., the Go toolchain is https://sourcegraph.com/sourcegraph/srclib-go, and the emacs mode is https://sourcegraph.com/sourcegraph/emacs-sourcegraph-mode. Neither knows about each other.

edit: Oh, I just realized I met the parent poster and have chatted about srclib with him. :)

Hey Quinn, sourcegraph looks cool, but we are already at ~20 plugins and writing more. Not going to rewrite them, but I'll take a look at making a vim srclib plugin since I'm familiar with viml.

Definitely check out what they've done at SourceGraph, very cool stuff.

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