ActivityWatch is great in a lot of ways (in my opinion at least). But not in every way.
Here’s my attempt at keeping a list on the things we don’t do as well as we could. I expect to update this list over time.
Features RescueTime have that’s not in ActivityWatch (yet)
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Sync
- Our plan is to support sync using a variety of storage methods which will enable sync to services like Syncthing (private and decentralized), Google Drive, and Dropbox.
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Easy setup and getting started
- We’re getting there: we hope to end up with an installer for Windows, packages for Linux, and a
.appfor macOS - Windows installer
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macOS
.app(delivered in.dmg, will be available in v0.9) - Linux .deb package
- We’re getting there: we hope to end up with an installer for Windows, packages for Linux, and a
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Android support
- This is a big one as a lot of people spend more time in front of their phones than in front of their desktop or laptop. We’ve been planning it for a while now and
will probably start working on it soonish. - Edit: Basic version done, more improvements to come.
- This is a big one as a lot of people spend more time in front of their phones than in front of their desktop or laptop. We’ve been planning it for a while now and
- Auto-categorize’s activities
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Classify productive time by category/app name/window title/browser tab.
- This is used to give an aggregate productivity score for a given time period. Such as “Today you had 25% more productive time than yesterday” or “This month had 6% more productive time than last week”
- Integrations with a lot of third-party services (which we might be able to do as well in many cases)
Neat things about other services than RescueTime
- WakaTime has pretty good file editor analytics (we could use all the existing open source WakaTime editor plugins)
- ManicTime has pretty crazy tagging features, I feel like I should know more about ManicTime.
- Zenobase is great in general, but privacy is suboptimal