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A lighter faster ActivityWatch with Tauri: now available for testing
The ActivityWatch v0.14.0 release ships a new desktop app: aw-tauri, a lighter, faster cross-platform repackaging of ActivityWatch. As the name implies the project is built with Tauri, a relatively new Rust-based toolkit that enables easy development of small, fast, and secure applications with a great developer experience.
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ActivityWatch v0.14.0: faster, steadier, synced, and a new app
ActivityWatch v0.14.0 is out. It’s been almost two years since v0.13.2, and it’s the biggest release in a long time: about 1,000 changes across 13 repositories, from more than 30 contributors, tested over eight betas.
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Syncing your ActivityWatch devices: what works today, what's next
You can now copy activity data between your phone and your computers without an ActivityWatch account. ActivityWatch has no sync server of its own; whether the copies stay on machines you control depends on the folder tool you pick. Sync and multi-device queries have reached the point where the basics...
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ActivityWatch Research Edition: a variant for your study
If you run a study that needs to know how participants spend their time on a computer, but should not be handed their window titles and URLs, there is now an ActivityWatch build for that: the Research Edition. Making a variant for your study is mostly a matter of supplying...
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ActivityWatch has passed 1 million downloads
ActivityWatch has passed 1 million downloads. The desktop app’s GitHub Releases alone now count over 1.18 million, and that doesn’t include package managers, distro repositories, Google Play, or F-Droid. We didn’t mark the moment when it happened, so this is us catching up.
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ActivityWatch for Android 0.14 is stable: sync, alerts, and a lot fewer crashes
ActivityWatch for Android 0.14 is out of beta. It’s the first stable Android release since v0.12.1 in 2023, and the biggest one the app has had: 30 new features, 100 bug fixes, and contributions from 32 people. Since v0.14.0 (Sept 13), two follow-ups, v0.14.1 and v0.14.2, have gone out to...
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ActivityWatch vs RescueTime: Why I Built a Free Open-Source Alternative
I started building ActivityWatch because I was frustrated with RescueTime. As someone who wanted to understand how I spent my time on the computer, I had been a RescueTime user for years. But over time, the problems kept piling up:
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Announcing Winners of Screenshot Competition!
We’re excited to announce the winners of the ActivityWatch Screenshot Competition! We received some great submissions, and we’d like to thank everyone who participated. Your contributions will help us showcase ActivityWatch to the world!
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The Future of Time Tracking: AI, Privacy, and Personalization
In an increasingly digital world, time-tracking software like ActivityWatch plays a pivotal role in enhancing productivity and self-awareness. As we look to the future, three key elements stand out: Artificial Intelligence (AI), privacy, and personalization.
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Comparing ActivityWatch with RescueTime, ManicTime, and Apple ScreenTime
In today’s digital landscape, effective time management is more critical than ever. While everyone has 24 hours in a day, how we utilize those hours significantly impacts our productivity and well-being. Time-tracking software has thus become a fundamental tool for individuals and organizations aiming to optimize their time use. This...
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Development Update March 2019
We are sorry for the long delay in our development updates, but infrequent updates also mean larger updates. The last development update was written about half a year ago, so we have a lot of things to share!
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Development Update August 2018
During the summer @ErikBjare, @johan-bjareholt, @Powersource, and three other wonderful people have been developing Thankful under the group name Superuser Labs. We think we’re onto something kinda amazing, but we have a bit to go before it’s an improvement over existing donation methods.
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Development Update May 2018
On request we’ve decided to start doing these bimonthly development updates in order to keep you all updated about how development is progressing. It might take a few updates for us to get this going, but we’ll get there!
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