binarybana/ulogme

Keep track/quantify/analyze productivity throughout the day in a Ubuntu enviornment

ulogme

How productive were you today? How much code have you written? Where did your time go?

Keep track of your productivity throughout the day: visualize your active window titles and the number of keystrokes in beautiful daily HTML timelines. Current features:

• Records your active window title throughout the day
• Records the frequency of key presses throughout the day
• Everything runs completely locally: none of your data is uploaded anywhere
• All generate reports are just HTML and JSON files, ready to be archived for your future viewing pleasure or analysis.

Demo

See a live demo here.

Getting Started

Project is still in early stages and currently only works on Ubuntu. The workflow right now is as follows:

• Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/karpathy/ulogme.git
• cd inside and run ./ulogme.sh (note: this will ask you for sudo authentication which is required for showkey command). This will launch two scripts for listening to your keyboard activity and active window and log the activity into log files in the keyfreq and activewin folders. The log files simply contain the unix time stamp and associated data. Leave this recording for a while, then
• Run python export_events.py, which will write JSON files into render/ directory. The index.html file will read these and create your visualizations
• Go to render/render_settings.js and modify the title mappings according to your own preferences. As an example, one rule specifies that if a window title contains "Google Chrome", it should simply all be grouped into category called "Google Chrome". Follow the provided example.
• Start a webserver inside render/, for example using python -m SimpleHTTPServer and open a window at the root, probably http://localhost:8000/. Enjoy the visualization!

TODO

• MAC OSX support. Requires port of functionality in logactivewin.sh and keyfreq.sh to MAC OSX.
• Possibly incorporate support for lowres screen snapshots. These can already be logged with ./logdesktop.sh but are not yet displayed
• Much more visualizations and analysis!

License

BSD 2 clause license