swdotcom/swdc-vscode

Time-tracking plugin for Visual Studio Code

Code Time

Code Time is an open source plugin for automatic programming metrics and time tracking in Visual Studio Code. Join our community of nearly half a million developers who use Code Time to reclaim time for focused, uninterrupted coding. Protect valuable code time and stay in flow.

Looking for more ways to help your team improve their productivity? When you connect our GitHub App or Bitbucket App, you can measure your team’s performance against engineering KPIs and benchmarks, including velocity, quality, and scale. You can identify bottlenecks in your release process — like slow code reviews — and take immediate action, so you can ship faster and more efficiently.

Getting Started

Create an account to keep track of your coding data and unlock access to advanced data visualizations in the Code Time dashboard and web app. You can customize your profile, such as your work hours and office type, for advanced time tracking. You can also connect Outlook or Google Calendar to visualize your code time vs. meetings in a single calendar.

Registering an account also lets you connect multiple code editors on multiple devices using the same email account. Your code time data will sync automatically across your devices.

Open Code Time in the sidebar and follow the Getting Started prompts to create a new account, or click Log in to sign into an existing account.

Protect Code Time

Automatic Flow Mode makes it easy to eliminate distractions, mute notifications, and stay focused when you are in flow. It detects when you are in a high velocity coding session and automatically silences distractions and prevents interruptions.

With Automatic Flow Mode, you can quickly toggle Zen mode or enter full screen. If you connect a Slack workspace, you can pause notifications, update your profile status, and set your presence to away. If you connect Google Calendar or Microsoft Outlook, you can also block time on your calendar. You can customize Flow Mode by clicking Configure settings in the Code Time sidebar.

If you'd prefer to turn on Flow Mode manually during each coding session, you can enable or disable Automatic Flow Mode from the Code Time settings view. Make sure to hit the save button after you're done updating your settings. To then turn on Flow Mode manually, click Enter Flow Mode in the sidebar to toggle your flow automations. Once you are in Flow Mode, click Exit Flow Mode to resume receiving notifications and reset your Slack status.

Track Development Metrics

Your coding stats can help you understand how you are improving over time.

Your status bar shows you in real-time how many hours and minutes you code each day. A rocket will appear if your active code time exceeds your daily average on this day of the week.

To see an overview of your coding activity and project metrics, open the Code Time panel by clicking on the Code Time icon in your sidebar. Click Dashboard to open your personalized Code Time dashboard in a new editor tab. Your dashboard summarizes your coding data — such as your code time, code time outside work hours, and meeting time — today, yesterday, last week, and over the last 90 days.

Your code time is the total time you have spent in your editor today. Your active code time is the time you spend actively writing and editing code in your editor or IDE. It captures periods of intense focus and flow. Each metric shows how you compare today to your personal averages. Each average is calculated by day of week over the last 90 days (e.g. a Friday average is an average of all previous Fridays).

Explore Data Visualizations

Click More data at software.com in the Code Time sidebar or visit app.software.com to see more advanced data visualizations. You will need to create a free Software.com account to use the web app. In the Code Time dashboard, you will be able to track:

Active code time. Visualize your daily active code time. See productivity trends compared to 90-day averages. See how you stack up against the Software.com community.

Meeting time. Connect your Google Calendar or Outlook Calendar to visualize meeting time versus code time.

Work-life balance. See how much coding happens during work hours versus nights and weekends so you can find ways to improve your work-life balance.

Engineering KPIs for Teams

Take your team to the next level. Software.com makes it easy to automatically track engineering KPIs, including lead time, deployment frequency, and more.

Measure the impact of new tools. See how changes to your engineering organization impact performance over time. Roll out new hiring plans, AI coding tools, platforms, and processes with greater confidence.

Remove bottlenecks and unlock new growth. Setting up the right systems and tools sits at the heart of the developer experience. Development observability helps you uncover hidden bottlenecks and create an environment where every developer can be their most productive.

Build high-performing teams. Better business outcomes are driven by teams that ship predictable and consistent results. Set up standardized metrics across your organization that help teams measure and improve development performance on their own.

Code Time for your entire team. When you upgrade your organization to the Pro plan, you’ll unlock advanced Code Time features for every developer on your team, including custom reports and data exports.

To see your team's engineering KPIs, visit the web app and connect our GitHub or Bitbucket app to your Software.com account. It's free and takes just a few minutes.

It’s Safe, Secure, and Free

We never access your code: We do not read, transmit, or store source code. We only provide metrics about programming, and we make it easy to see the data we collect. You can learn more about how we secure your data on our security page.

Your data is private: We will never share your individually identifiable data with your boss. When you create or join a team, we only show KPIs at the team and company level.

Free for you, forever: We provide 90 days of data history for free, forever. We provide premium plans for advanced features and historical data access.

Code Time also collects basic usage metrics to help us make informed decisions about our roadmap.

Data collected and purpose

Data Collected	Purpose of Data
Local Timezone	Applying time zones to aggregate metrics so that daily values are accurate
Hostname	Used for de-duplicating accounts and linking multiple installations together under same login. Hostname is hashed before usage
File open, save, close events	These events are used to capture general activity within the editor and extend code time sessions
Editor focus / unfocus	These events are used to capture general activity within the editor and extend code time sessions
Document change events	These events are used to characterize what types of changes are being made to a document. CONTENT OF A DOCUMENT IS NEVER STORED OR TRANSMITTED
Project directory	Used to segment activity and Code Time across projects
Git Repo Name	Used to segment activity and Code Time across git repos (Can be turned off in settings)
File name	Used to segment activity and Code Time across file names (File names are one-way hashed before use)

More details here

Join the Community

Enjoying Code Time? Let us know how it’s going by tweeting or following us at @software_hq.

Have any questions? Create an issue in the Code Time project on GitHub or send us an email at [email protected] and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can.

swdc-vscode's Issues

Request: Option to hide or format statusbar text

I love tracking my coding but it's kind of a "personal" thing. When a supervisor or boss comes over my desk, I don't really want to be advertising publicly my numbers of the day and/or average, because they may pass judgement lacking context.

I would like a preference to hide the statusbar text. After all I can always get to the dashboard via the command panel (ctrl+shift+p) menu anyway.

Additionally, it could also be cool to have control over the formatting with a simple tokens system, so you can decide what number to show in the status or not, for example being able to show the hours coded today but not the 90 day average.

Please have a setting to stop console spam

I use this extension while developing other extensions, and unfortunately, due to how prolific this extension is at logging it makes it hard to find important log messages.

Please add a setting to disable this, if it's needed at all.

Thanks.

How to manually set "I'm at work" or "I'm outside of work"?

I added the configurations of working time in app.software.com, But sometimes I'm actually not at work and I'm at home. Maybe it's a holiday or anything else.
How can I config manually that where I am coding right now?
For a real example, these days I'm on holidays and coding at home on my own projects, but coding time will log in work time part!
I think, a small button in the editor can help set status: "I'm at work"!

No Data available

Not sure when it stopped working, but in my dashboard I get the following:

When I try to log in, I get stuck in a loop in the following order:

Click on code time log in through vscode ->
Open log in page in browser ->
Select github ->
No account found, must install plug in first ->
go back to vscode ->
repeat.

Status bar rocket ship question.

I was wondering if the Rocket ship that appears at the bottom of vs code in the status bar means anything. I have seen it sometimes and other times it isn't there. I couldn't really find any FAQ or info about it. Sorry its not really a issue and more of a question.

No data available

I have:
MacOS Mojave
Last version swdc-vscode.
When i try to open code time dashboard i get:

When i try to see dashboards in web, i get white page.

offline use

I noticed yesterday that code time dont send stats if there is no network connection..
Now it looks like I didn't work anything yesterday.

Would it be possible to store this data in json locally when working offline. Then when you get back to a less remote location with internet connection it sends the data to the server?

Team dashboard or linking

Is there an option to link multiple "devs" / Machines to an overall dashboard?
So a global account to monitor my devs performance without going to each of their machines or accounts?
Basically a company profile, with users.

Would be fantastic if it has it.

Thanks.

Web Dashboard 500 Error

When I try to use the online dashboard, it just loads infinitely and I see:

Request URL:https://api.software.com/feed?page=0&limit=5 Request method:GET Remote address:54.193.54.166:443 Status code: 500 Version:HTTP/2.0 Referrer Policy:no-referrer-when-downgrade

Vscode not sending stats anymore.

I just noticed that after updating to the latest version (0.8.5) The vscode plugin doesn't seem to send the data to the app anymore.

When I try to log in again by using the log in command from the plugin, it logs me in just fine but still doesn't update the stats.

I'm on mojave 10.14.3 an vscode 1.31.1.

Did I miss something after the update or did a bug sneak in somewhere?

No access to commands after install/login

This is in response to Code Time's reply on the VS Code market place.

I logged in using github, however in the web interface it doesn't show me what email the account is linked to.

Just to access the web interface, I had to clone the github repo, find the command in the code, change the code so the command would be registered, install the dependences and the build the new version and run the command.

You might want to consider putting the login link somewhere in the readme.

It seems the issue is that the package.json isn't including the Code Time commands. The commands are registered in the code in line 40 in lib/command-helper.ts, but if they're not apart of the package.json the user isn't going to get access to them without manually setting a keybinding and knowing the internal name of the command.

The code is well commented, so that was a plus.

Dashboard shows wrong code time

I'm using Code Time in VsCode on mac.
It is showing the wrong time: look at this report:

CODE TIME          (Last updated on Fri, Mar 15th 8:10 am)

Today (Fri, Mar 15th)
-----------------------------------------------------------------
        Hours coded today: 4.9 hrs
               90-day avg :                                0 min
               Live Share :                                0 min

Yesterday (Thu, Mar 14th)
-----------------------------------------------------------------
              Hours coded :                                    0
      Lines of code added :                                    0
    Lines of code deleted :                                    0
         Characters added :                                    0
       Characters deleted :                                    0
         Total keystrokes :                                    0
                      KPM :                                    0
               Live share :                                0 min

It shows that I spent about 5 hours to code on Friday! Actually, it is for Thursday(yesterday).
Yesterday, every time I checked, It showed 0 min of code! But today it is showing that I coded 5 hours and actually I was at sleep! and it is the exact time of code for yesterday.

Here is also a screenshot of my online dashboard:

Antimalware Service Executable high CPU usage when Ctrl+T (Show All Symbols)

• VSCode Version: 1.38.1
• OS Version: Windows 10 v1903 (OS Build 18362.356)

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Ctrl + T
2. Antimalware Service Executable high CPU usage, the computer becomes very stunned.

Does this issue occur when Code Time for Visual Studio Code extensions are disabled?: No

Code Time Data for the Project Name and File Type

It's sometimes interesting to see how much time we spend on a particular project. The project's name can be inferred from the Folder name.
The other feature request is about File Types, because we want to know how much time we spend coding in some language.

Not calculate time in vscode with openSUSE linux

Code Time work good with my Mac.
But not calculate time with openSUSE Linux.

OS: openSUSE Leap 15
VScode: 1.31.1
code time: 0.6.9

I already try restart vscode and re-install code time, but still not work at openSUSE Linux.

Any thing I could do?
Thanks.

Software.com-related commands appear in context menus of unrelated explorer panes

As much as I would like to order tacos, I'm questioning the involvement of PowerShell, VS Live Share or GitLens in that activity:

how to change timezone

how to change timezone

The calendar issue in https://app.software.com/calendar/codetime

On clicking the suggested code time shows us this issue, but my google account is linked to the app.

Cant able to track code time

VSCode Version:

Operating System:

Code Time stopped working,
telling me to login, I have already logged in

but still I see

Can't login to VSCode plugin on Debian

Everything was OK on Debian, But I've updated my VsCode and now, codetime plugin can't login.
Here is details of VsCode version:

Version: 1.33.1
Commit: 51b0b28134d51361cf996d2f0a1c698247aeabd8
Date: 2019-04-11T08:20:22.771Z
Electron: 3.1.6
Chrome: 66.0.3359.181
Node.js: 10.2.0
V8: 6.6.346.32
OS: Linux x64 4.9.0-8-amd64

and this is the error I've gotten in vscode's developer tools:

Code Time: error fetching data for /users/plugin/state, message: Request failed with status code 500

Codetime plugin version is 0.14.5

When I hit login button on vscode, it will redirect me to this URL: https://app.software.com/onboarding?token=null.

no weekly email report

Last weekly report that was sent from Cody was feb 18, I've the setting activated.

Negative code time

Today I was seeing negative values (~-200 min) in the Total for the day. I'm not sure how far that negative value had propagated.
(Note. I just want to mention that I'm opening another issue for the extension crashing Visual Studio 2017. I don't know if there's any chance they'd be related)

Can't create new account

I am trying to create a new account but it doesn't work, says you already have associated account with this email address

How can I sign out?

Dear:
I want change my account, But there seems to be no logout option in the extension.
or
Is there any way to change my account login?

Thanks.
Have a good time.

Feature Request: Status Bar Toggles

This might be trivial, but I think that the ability to remove Status Bar Items would be nice - or possibly provide the option to show an icon instead?

As you can see in the following image, my status bar gets pretty full - and CodeTime is a big offender. The notification on the left side doesn't show up all the time, but when it does, it appear to only be notifying that I've hovered an option in the Command Palette.

Request for brackets plugin.

Hi awesome Devs.

Could you make this plugin for brackets too? I preffer brackets over VS code, properly not the only one.

./Casper

Not work in mac

I have this plugin but 1 week ago not work

Code time show nothing

I have Vscode 1.32.1

Dashboard displaying empty data

Hello,

Even with keystrokes recorded on the left panel, the right sidebar has no data for any of my activities.
Also, I can't find any list of the time spent by project anywhere, and I think that this is the most interesting feature of the project.

Also, local dashboard reports 0 as well.

Project file open metric

Please excuse if this has already been suggested / requested, I would like a metric that records project file open time. It's kinda like this, when I start work on a project I open the project folder in VSCode. When it's the end of the morning session and I have lunch I close VSCode. I then reopen the project again for the afternoon. How much actual typing I do in the project is variable. Sometimes I'm doing research, or studying theory related to the project. In which case I'm still working on the project, just not much typing into it. So I feel whilst the current sytem of recording activity by the amount of typing into the project is good to have, I do feel that the overall period of activity on a project can be measured by how long the project is open. And before people start jumping down my throat about this and that - it's an option. If you don't like it disable it, now settle down. For me, I've just been researching for my current project for the past hour and swdc says I've only worked on it for 2 min. It feels disapointing and like the rest of my stats are unfair too.

Code Time Dashboard does not show up

Post login, the online dashboard works fine but the dashboard always show no data from within VS Code.

VS Code

Online

pop-up tab "Music Time Dashboard"

I have this empty pop-up tab "Music Time Dashboard" every time I launch the VS code editor.
How to get rid of it?

Gif

Web dashboard: Duplicate entries in feed

Hello,

I have detected a bug where when I click on feed and then on calendar, returning to feed duplicates the cards.

This happens each time I do the process.
See attached:

Key binding conflict

I encounter an issue with the following functionality:

Toggle the Code Time status bar metrics (ctrl+c ctrl+t)

This binding converts CTRL+C keyboard shortcut to a chord, preventing its default function of copying highlighted text.

I suggest changing the default key binding to a combination starting with CTRL+K.

Tested in VSCode 1.33 on Linux.

"Code time: 0 min" all the time and ~/.software/CodeTime file has weird permissions

Hello,

I wanted to wait a few days in case it was some kind of delayed daily process thing, but it's been 3 days or so that after I logged in, presumably everything is working but I see Code time: 0 min all the time on the bottom right of VSCode and the web dashboard (and the "Code time report" from vscode) reports no data at all. (It's showing the default charts explaining what data may look like.)

Is there some secret debug log I could paste to help you investigate this?

I also noticed that the internal file ~/.software/CodeTime had been created by my user but with some bizarre permissions not allowing me to edit the file, which I guess did not help.

It was like this: (notice I have no user read rights on the file, wtf?)

> ls -l ~/.software/
total 72
drwxrwxr-x   2 alan artists   1536 Feb  8 11:37 ./
drwxr-xr-x 192 alan games   207872 Feb  8 11:36 ../
--wxrw--wt   1 alan artists   2833 Feb  8 11:35 CodeTime*
-rw-rw-r--   1 alan artists    227 Feb  7 14:59 session.json

After seeing that, I opened the permissions to my user:

> ls -l ~/.software/
total 72
drwxrwxr-x   2 alan artists   1536 Feb  8 11:37 ./
drwxr-xr-x 192 alan games   207360 Feb  8 11:37 ../
-rw-rw-r--   1 alan artists   2833 Feb  8 11:35 CodeTime
-rw-rw-r--   1 alan artists    227 Feb  7 14:59 session.json

...but it still wasn't working. Restarted VSCode, reinstalled the extension, restarted vscode again for good measure and the permissions went back to being un-readable by my user.

I think there's a bug somewhere?

Here's my vscode info if it helps:

Version: 1.31.0
Commit: 7c66f58312b48ed8ca4e387ebd9ffe9605332caa
Date: 2019-02-06T08:51:24.856Z
Electron: 3.1.2
Chrome: 66.0.3359.181
Node.js: 10.2.0
V8: 6.6.346.32
OS: Linux x64 3.10.0-693.21.1.el7.x86_64

Code Time context menus seem to be added to every tree view

I just noticed that when I right-click in any custom tree view in VS Code (e.g. the Live Share session details tree), the Code Time context menus appear (see below for the experience with the Live Share tree). It would be great if you could scope these commands to a specific context, so it doesn't clutter any UI unexpectedly.

cant login on Linux

Cant login on linux with all programs i use
(vscode atom idea pycharm) it pushes me to the page and i login and thats it

Always auto open itunes in MacBook

When I upgrade codeTime extension in VSCode to 0.16.5, iTunes was always auto opened. After I forbid extensions one by one, I found it depends on codeTime. Please check out it, thanks.

Time Tracking

Does it track even when VSCode is Open in background or just when VSCode window is active?

I'm asking this because I generally keep VSCode open even when I'm working on non-code work on my laptop - need to know if it will affect or not

Crashing Visual Studio 2017

I've been having issues with Visual Studio 2017 crashing ~1 min after startup. Visual Studio is 100% up-to-date. Disabling the Code Time extension has eliminated the problem. (Tried it several times with the extension enabled and disabled. The issue only exists when the Code Time extension is enabled.)

How does "Code time by genre" work?

Hey guys,

On the web dashboard I saw the "Code time by genre", not with actual data, but as a suggested graph that may eventually appear.

I couldn't find any docs about this feature. Is it just in the roadmap and not publicly available yet?

I think it's a very interesting thing to track. 🤔

"command 'extension.codeTimeMetrics' not found"

• Issue Type: Bug
• Extension Name: swdc-vscode
• Extension Version: 0.13.7
• OS Version: Darwin x64 18.5.0
• VSCode version: 1.32.3

Hi, I just installed Code Time, there was no alert prompting me to log in, and none of the commands listed for the command palette works:

extension.codeTimeMetrics
extension.softwareKpmDashboard
extension.viewSoftwareTop40
extension.codeTimeLogin

I'm on macOS Mojave, already made sure that my $PATH is correctly configured, don't have any issues with other extensions.

Please help!

Cannot login with the Remote-SSH extension

Hello,

First of all, thanks a lot for this extension! The insights are really useful :D

I have noticed that this extension doesn't really play well with the VSCode Remote SSH Development extension.

Expected behavior

The extension installs as an UI extension, allowing me to log in from the Ctrl + Shift + P Log In option.

Actual behavior

The extension installs as a Workspace extension. Tracking works, but the login option does nothing.

Current workaround

Following the steps in the official Remote documentation to force the extension to be UI/Local fixes the issue.

This basically means adding this to your settings.json:

    "remote.extensionKind": {
        "softwaredotcom.swdc-vscode": "ui"
    }

If I can help with a PR that fixes this or anything else, let me know :)

Undisclosed advertising in the command panel?!

Dude, not cool:

Nowhere on the extension page, nor the github repo's README, nor your FAQ, does it say you are doing advertising inside the extension. This is straight up unacceptable.

For the record, my problem is not the advertising. I understand servers cost money and this is promoted as a "free" service so I get that some form of advertising may be a revenue stream for you and that's fine within reason, but my issue is you did not disclose the advertising upfront. How am I supposed to trust you with time tracking my personal code if I can't trust you to disclose what your extension is doing? What next, are you sneak in UberEats promos as commented code blocks in my code??

If you wish to keep advertising but make it less sketchy, maybe mention some promo codes inside a changelog that appears on each update as you improve the extension? It'd be less of a breach of confidence that way. At the very least mention the in-panel advertising in your README.

I guess I'm gonna continue sticking with Wakatime until then. They never voided my trust by silently sneaking in any advertising in any of their extensions.

Code Time Metrics opening on it's own

If I open the metrics page once, it will then open itself and take focus roughly every minute. This is incredibly annoying as it interrupts, well, everything.

VSCode version info
Version: 1.30.2 (system setup)
Commit: 61122f88f0bf01e2ac16bdb9e1bc4571755f5bd8
Date: 2019-01-07T22:54:13.295Z
Electron: 2.0.12
Chrome: 61.0.3163.100
Node.js: 8.9.3
V8: 6.1.534.41
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.17763

Code Time version
v0.5.61

Possible SSL decryption issue

• VSCode Version: 1.36.1 (system setup)
• OS Version: Windows 10 v1903 (Build 18362.267)
• Extension Version: 1.1.20
• System Language: US English

Issue

Metrics are not reflected in dashboard.
My corporation has recently implemented SNI Packet Decryption, which fiddles with the certificate a bit and I suspect this might be the root of my issue.
I've run into a couple of issues (one with the Wakatime extension, actually) where this causes issues with SSL verification. Wakatime happens to have a parameter that disables the SSL verification step. Do you have something similar?

Please let me know if I've not included the correct information. I can also provide actual log files if necessary - but we'll have to do that via email or something.

Log Data

~/.software/data.json: 478 lines
~/.software/SummaryInfo.txt:

Our service is temporarily unavailable.

Please try again later.

Web Dashboard not opening from

Opening the Web Dashboard has stopped working from within VSCode (see screengrab for details)

Version: 1.37.1 (user setup)
Commit: f06011ac164ae4dc8e753a3fe7f9549844d15e35
Date: 2019-08-15T16:17:55.855Z
Electron: 4.2.7
Chrome: 69.0.3497.128
Node.js: 10.11.0
V8: 6.9.427.31-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.17763

And on top of that, finding the URL of the Web Dashboard... why is it such a secret? I never noticed before, and didn't even bookmark the URL as the above link worked just fine. But since it's not working I wanted to check up on my stats and am shocked to see that you've not printed the URL in any of the prominent places where it aught to be advertised as connected to the plugin as a service. I don't know about anyone else but I think that's wrong.
https://app.software.com/

[Discussion] Track time spent collaborating with other developers

I’m really enjoying this extension, and I was curious whether it would make sense to track the time that developers spend collaborating via Live Share, since that provides another dimension to their time spent coding. Live Share provides an API that would allow you to detect when a developer is in a collaboration session, and could be a potentially interesting integration.

Unable to login in vscode

Installed extension then clicked on bottom right ⚠️code time that opens a tab in browser and i logged in with google there it is showing dashboard but vscode still ⚠️code time, and on hover it tells click to login.

One Account Between Multiple PCs

Hi, I seem to be running into a problem quite frequently at the moment.
I code on two machines and would like to use one code time account so that I can make the most of the work / home balance.

It seems like every time I swap machines, I need to log in through VS code again, whenever I do this, it zeros off any stats collected on that machine for the day. So if I don't login to code time until the end of the day, my stats will display as 0min both locally and on the web dashboard.

Anyone else come across this?

Using VSCode on Win10 on both machines, nothing else really different about the machines. I use a software.com account to log in.