Time tagging and auto tagging

[johan-bjareholt]

Manual time tagging is similar to what is proposed in this thread, which has a lot of votes.

Manually tracking away/offline-time

As a user who frequently leaves their computer for meetings, phone calls, etc, it would be nice to be able to define manual AFK activities so I can also log in more detail what I was doing. This way when I return to my computer, ActivityWatch can prompt me and ask “What were you doing for the last 42 minutes?” and I can select between defined afk activities. Meeting, Helping another person, phone call, etc.

We have not considered yet how we want to visualize it, but our timeline view certainly needs improvements.

@Ryvix

I can also right click on an activity such as Firefox for example, and create an auto tag out of it. I can also just add auto tags from scratch with various features. I can’t find anything really like it for Linux. I’ve looked for so long. The only reason I use Windows is for ManicTime and games and I’d really like to note have to use it for work if possible.

We have considered how to more easily add categories (such as just pressing on the “Firefox” appname which then prompts you to create a new category or add it to an existing one), but before we do that we want some improvements to our categorization first (such as being able to only categorize on a specific field like “appname” or “title” so that’s what happens when you press it).