I’m self employed. I need to record how much time I spend on whatever task for whatever client.

Sounds simple, but I’m terrible at it. I always get to the end of the day without having recorded anything and not knowing what I’ve actually done.

Basically, I’d like to create a text log of the active window title, and take a screen cap.

I’d like to do this periodically as in every 15 minutes or so.

For the text log I just haven’t been able to achieve this at all.

For the screen caps I can use flameshot to take a screenshot from the CLI, but it makes a sound and shows an animation which is sub-optimal.

Any suggestions of where to look much appreciated.

Edit: I’m not asking for a time tracking app. I want something to log the active window title and take a screen cap so I can figure out what I was doing and write it in my time tracking app.

    • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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      35 minutes ago

      Kinda cool, interesting. Thanks for the suggestion.

      It’s not really suitable for me though. This kinda takes periodic screenshots and makes them searchable.

      I need to know what I was doing at different times. So really it’s just the periodic screenshots that I need and the search functionality isn’t useful to me.

      • HelloRoot@lemy.lolEnglish
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        13 minutes ago

        “searchable” in the sense that you can ask an AI what you were doing at certain times.

        I am pretty sure you could ask it to generate per project timetables from that.

        Or at the very least, you can use the codebase to see how they take continuous screenshots. Especially since all the wayland code is clearly seperated in the fork.