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ActivityWatch

activitywatch

The best free and open-source automated time tracker. Cross-platform, extensible, privacy-focused.

Detected by aw-qt, aw-server, aw-watcher-afk | macOS, Linux, Windows |activitywatch.net

Sync it activitywatch.toml

Sync rules

What travels, what stays, what never leaves

ActivityWatch in your home directory Every rule on this page, by file

· ~/Library/Application Support/activitywatch/*/*.toml Sync

· ~/.config/activitywatch/*/*.toml Sync

· %LOCALAPPDATA%/activitywatch/*/*.toml Sync

Only what the catalog names. A directory that syncs brings everything inside it except what is listed as excluded here.

apps/activitywatch.tomlThe file this page is generated from

id = "activitywatch"

name = "ActivityWatch"

homepage = "https://activitywatch.net"

description = "The best free and open-source automated time tracker. Cross-platform, extensible, privacy-focused."

# The project's own logo, from its homepage.

icon = "https://activitywatch.net/img/logo.png"

detect = ["aw-qt", "aw-server", "aw-watcher-afk"]

# https://docs.activitywatch.net/en/latest/directories.html gives the config

# directory per module, and it is a different base directory on each platform

# rather than one place under three names — Windows uses %LOCALAPPDATA% while

# macOS uses Application Support and Linux the XDG config home — so the three

# spellings are written out:

# Windows C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\activitywatch\<module>

# macOS ~/Library/Application Support/activitywatch/<module>

# Linux ~/.config/activitywatch/<module>

# One subdirectory per module (aw-server-rust, aw-qt, aw-watcher-afk,

# aw-watcher-window). https://docs.activitywatch.net/en/latest/configuration.html:

# "In v0.11.0, the previous `.ini` config files used by all Python-based modules

# were replaced by `.toml` files", so the config is the .toml inside each module

# directory. The glob is deliberately narrow: on macOS and Windows the data

# directory is the same directory as the config directory, and it holds the

# event database, which is recorded activity rather than configuration and must

# not be swept along.

paths = [

"~/Library/Application Support/activitywatch/*/*.toml",

"~/.config/activitywatch/*/*.toml",

"%LOCALAPPDATA%/activitywatch/*/*.toml",

]

# Nothing to carve out: the glob above only reaches .toml files, so the

# databases, logs (~/Library/Logs, %LOCALAPPDATA%\…\logs, ~/.cache) and caches

# named on the same page are outside it already.

exclude = []

# ActivityWatch is local-first — the server binds to localhost and there is no

# account — so nothing it writes here is a credential.

secret = []

# No machine_lines: the settings are poll intervals, AFK timeouts, the host and

# port the local server binds to and which watchers autostart. The port is

# arguably per-machine, but it is the same 5600 everywhere unless a user

# deliberately changed it, and stripping it would strand that choice.

Use it with your dotfile manager

Same data, in the shape your tool already reads

Opens Otty and adds this tool to what it syncs

Opens otty://sync/add/activitywatch. Otty ships with this catalog, so the link only has to name the tool — nothing is downloaded.

Every one of these is generated from the same rules as this page.