ZenTracker is made to solve a simple problem: understanding how I spend my time on my Mac. It is designed to be dead-simple, completely private, and geek-friendly.
ZenTracker will run in the background, and record the current running application at every minute. You can query your daily activity easily from command line. And you have all the history stored as text files at your disposable. Extract insight from the history as you wish with your commandline-fu.
You need to have Homebrew installed.
bash install.shbash uninstall.shZentracker is collecting activities at the background. See it in action with ps aux | grep zentrackerd.
Get the daily summary with command zentracker, press q to exit. Get yesterday's summary with zentracker -1, and so on.
ZenTracker consists of 2 components: a tracking daemon that checks the front-most application every minute; and a cli script that generates a summary for the tracked activities of the day.
Since all the tracking data is stored as text files(named in the format YYYY-MM-DD) in a directory(default to ~/.zentracker), it is very easy to write small scripts that parse and generate the reports that you want specifically.
Contributions are very welcome! You can open issues for feature requests, or any great idea for improving ZenTracker! Be sure to open an issue before sending your pull requests.
Setting up your development environment is easy: If you set your environment variable ZENDIR to a directory of your preference, executing the tracking daemon zentrackerd would write data files to that directory (this way it won't screw up your activity history), and the cli app zentracker would also read data from that directory.