I see there is a support question about auto starting aw-server at boot. That might be similar to mine, but I’m not a programmer, so don’t fully understand the request and answers.
My hope would be to be able to open up my computer in the morning, do my thing in various tabs - manually testing out bugs, running through steps that are laid out in a particular Google sheet for example, updating things in JIRA - and have ActivityWatch tell me something like “You spent X hours and Y minutes on this link”. I think it can already do this, but it doesn’t start tracking my time until I explicitly click on the AW extension icon in my Chrome browser.
Even if this auto-started upon someone opening up a Chrome browser (like, activation triggered by Chrome launch – maybe that’s more doable than having to understand different OS’s?), that would still be super helpful.
The whole point of this tool for my purposes is to help me not forget to track my time doing various things. If I have to remember to start the tool running in the first place, I guess this isn’t the tool for me, even though otherwise, it looks awesomely useful.
(Linking to the support thread I referenced… Auto start aw-server at boot)