├── README
└── trackmac.py


/README:
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 1 | # A simple time tracker for Mac OS X by Nat Friedman (nat@nat.org).
 2 | #
 3 | # Written May 6, 2010 in Munich, while a soft rain fell.
 4 | #
 5 | # Run this script in a terminal. It displays activity statistics 
 6 | # from the last 24 hours, like this:
 7 | #
 8 | # 1h 8m57s  70%  Google Chrome
 9 | #   14m17s  14%  Mail
10 | #    8m11s   8%  iChat
11 | #    3m16s   3%  Colloquy
12 | #    1m28s   1%  1Password
13 | #      43s   0%  Terminal
14 | #      12s   0%  TextMate
15 | #       4s   0%  Finder
16 | #       4s   0%  SecurityAgent
17 | #
18 | # 1h37m12s Sitting at the computer
19 | # 3h37m16s Doing something else
20 | # 5h14m28s Total
21 | #
22 | # It detects idle time based on the screensaver, so lower your 
23 | # screensaver delay or use a hot corner to improve accuracy.
24 | #
25 | # It doesn't save the data, so if you kill the script it loses the
26 | # history.
27 | 


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/trackmac.py:
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  1 | #!/usr/bin/python
  2 | #
  3 | # trackmac.py
  4 | #
  5 | # A simple time tracker for Mac OS X by Nat Friedman (nat@nat.org).
  6 | #
  7 | # Written May 6, 2010 in Munich, while a soft rain fell.
  8 | #
  9 | # Run this script in a terminal. It displays activity statistics 
 10 | # from the last 24 hours, like this:
 11 | #
 12 | # 1h 8m57s  70%  Google Chrome
 13 | #   14m17s  14%  Mail
 14 | #    8m11s   8%  iChat
 15 | #    3m16s   3%  Colloquy
 16 | #    1m28s   1%  1Password
 17 | #      43s   0%  Terminal
 18 | #      12s   0%  TextMate
 19 | #       4s   0%  Finder
 20 | #       4s   0%  SecurityAgent
 21 | #
 22 | # 1h37m12s Sitting at the computer
 23 | # 3h37m16s Doing something else
 24 | # 5h14m28s Total
 25 | # 
 26 | # It detects idle time based on the screensaver, so lower your 
 27 | # screensaver delay to improve accuracy.
 28 | #
 29 | # It doesn't save the data, so if you kill the script it loses the
 30 | # history. You might want to kill it every day or so, so it doesn't
 31 | # get too big (it keeps all the old samples around).
 32 | 
 33 | import time, math, sys
 34 | from AppKit import NSWorkspace
 35 | from operator import itemgetter
 36 | 
 37 | # Sample every second
 38 | sample_interval = 1
 39 | idle_activities = ["loginwindow", "ScreenSaverEngine"]
 40 | 
 41 | def friendly_duration(secs):
 42 | 	minutes, seconds = divmod(secs, 60)
 43 | 	hours, minutes = divmod(minutes, 60)
 44 | 	duration = []
 45 | 	if hours > 0:   
 46 | 		duration.append('%2dh' % hours)
 47 | 	else:
 48 | 		duration.append('   ')
 49 | 
 50 | 	if minutes > 0: 
 51 | 		duration.append('%2dm' % minutes)
 52 | 	else:
 53 | 		duration.append('   ')
 54 | 		
 55 | 	if seconds > 0: 
 56 | 		duration.append('%2ds' % seconds)
 57 | 	else:
 58 | 		duration.append('   ')
 59 | 		
 60 | 	return ''.join(duration)
 61 | 
 62 | def gather_activities(samples):
 63 | 	# Skip past all samples older than 24 hours
 64 | 	now = time.time()
 65 | 	for i in range(len(samples) - 1, 0, -1):
 66 | 		if (now - samples[i][0]) < 24 * 60 * 60:
 67 | 			first_i = i
 68 | 
 69 | 	total_time = samples[len(samples) - 1][0] - samples[first_i][0]
 70 | 
 71 | 	# Count up all the activities
 72 | 	activities = {}
 73 | 	for i in range(first_i + 1, len(samples)):
 74 | 		activity = samples[i - 1][1]
 75 | 		duration = samples[i][0] - samples[i - 1][0]
 76 | 
 77 | 		# If the screen was locked or the computer was suspended
 78 | 		# (or the script was not running), count that as idle time.
 79 | 		if activity in idle_activities or duration > (sample_interval + 3):
 80 | 			activity = "idle"
 81 | 		
 82 | 		if activity in activities:
 83 | 			activities[activity] += duration
 84 | 		else:
 85 | 			activities[activity] = duration
 86 | 
 87 | 	return activities, total_time
 88 | 
 89 | def print_summary(samples):
 90 | 	sys.stdout.write("\033[2J\033[H")
 91 | 	if len(samples) < 3:
 92 | 		print "Please wait, gathering data..."
 93 | 		return
 94 | 
 95 | 	activities, total_time = gather_activities(samples)
 96 | 		
 97 | 	sorted_activities = sorted(activities.items(), key=itemgetter(1))
 98 | 	sorted_activities.reverse()
 99 | 
100 | 	if "idle" in activities:
101 | 		idle_time = activities["idle"]
102 | 	else:
103 | 		idle_time = 0
104 | 	keyboard_time = total_time - idle_time
105 | 
106 | 	for a in sorted_activities:
107 | 		if a[0] != "idle":
108 | 			print friendly_duration(a[1]) + " " + ('%3d' % (a[1] * 100 / keyboard_time)) + "%  " + a[0]
109 | 	
110 | 	print
111 | 	print friendly_duration(keyboard_time) + " Sitting at the computer"
112 | 	if (idle_time > 0):
113 | 		print friendly_duration(idle_time) + " Doing something else"
114 | 		print friendly_duration(total_time) + " Total"
115 | 	
116 | def run_profiler():
117 | 	samples = []
118 | 	while True:
119 | 		activeAppName = NSWorkspace.sharedWorkspace().activeApplication()['NSApplicationName']
120 | 		samples.append([int(time.time()), activeAppName])
121 | 		print_summary(samples)
122 | 		time.sleep(sample_interval)
123 | 
124 | run_profiler()


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