Table of Contents

• meagain
  • Why?
  • What?
    • Event Stream Sample
    • The steps involved
  • Install
  • Usage
    • Command Line
    • Use as a Module
  • Todo
    • Soon
    • Eventually

meagain

track activity on your computer, optionally save to your AWS account (an S3 bucket you control)

Why?

To analyze your life, you need data. You don't have it, and if you do, you don't own it. Apps like RescueTime store your data in their cloud. Apps like Timing store data locally...but what if they don't really? I mean I'm sure they do...but what if they don't?

What?

currently tracked:

• foreground application
• system idle time.

Event Stream Sample

[
  // ...
  {
    "app": "Sublime Text",
    "time": 1533746158318,
    "duration": 1040
  },
  {
    "app": "Google Chrome",
    "type": "browser",
    "activeTab": {
      "title": "Inbox (1,431) - [email protected]",
      "url": "https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox"
    },
    "time": 1533746159358,
    "duration": 980
  },
  {
    "app": "WhatsApp",
    "time": 1533746160338,
    "duration": 5048
  },
  {
    "app": "AdobeReader",
    "time": 1533746165386,
    "duration": 1028
  },
  // ...
]

The steps involved

1. track foreground application / idle time
2. store locally to an append-only log (~/.meagain/log.db)
3. periodically consume the log and sync to S3
4. TODO: analyze

Install

npm i -g meagain

Usage

Command Line

# configure your storage options
meagain configure

# start tracking your activity
meagain start

Use as a Module

See lib/cli/track.js for an example of how to set up tracking

Todo

Soon

• implement web app (ignore the mess in app/ for now)
• support data queries
  • get activity breakdown during a time period (today, this month)
  • search content of visited browser pages (later)
• improve run-as-a-service mode:
  • enable start on system start

Eventually

• deploy as serverless
  • serve web app from s3 bucket
  • do all processing in lambda