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ulogme
Local activity tracker visualizing computer usage with timelines
Self-hosted productivity tracker that records active windows and keystrokes on Ubuntu/OSX, visualizing your daily computer activity in beautiful HTML timelines without uploading data anywhere.
Overview
Track Your Productivity Locally
ulogme is a privacy-focused activity tracker for Ubuntu and OSX that helps you understand where your time goes throughout the workday. By recording active window titles and keystroke frequency, it creates beautiful HTML/CSS/JS visualizations powered by d3.js that reveal patterns in your computer usage.
Complete Privacy and Control
Unlike cloud-based time trackers, ulogme runs entirely on your local machine. Your activity data never leaves your computer, giving you complete control over sensitive information about your work habits. The system writes simple timestamped logs to local files and serves an interactive web interface on localhost.
Rich Visualization and Annotation
The interface offers both single-day and overview modes. You can add custom notes to mark meetings, breaks, or significant events, creating a searchable timeline of your activities. Regular expression-based title mapping lets you categorize raw window titles into meaningful activity types. The barcode-style timeline makes it easy to spot productivity patterns, context switches, and time sinks at a glance.
Ideal for developers, researchers, and knowledge workers who want quantified self-tracking without sacrificing privacy.
Highlights
Records active window titles and keystroke frequency throughout the day
Runs completely locally with zero data uploaded to external servers
Interactive d3.js timelines with customizable activity categorization
Custom annotations and notes for tracking meetings, breaks, and events
Pros
- Complete privacy with all data stored locally on your machine
- Beautiful, interactive visualizations for understanding time usage patterns
- Lightweight logging with simple timestamped text files
- Customizable activity categorization via regular expressions
Considerations
- Limited to Ubuntu and OSX platforms only
- Requires ECMAScript 6 support, limiting older browser compatibility
- Manual refresh needed to view updated activity data
- Requires sudo authentication for keystroke logging on Ubuntu
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Fit guide
Great for
- Privacy-conscious users who want local-only activity tracking
- Developers and knowledge workers analyzing productivity patterns
- Individuals practicing quantified self without cloud dependencies
- Users comfortable with command-line setup and configuration
Not ideal when
- Windows users or those requiring cross-platform support
- Teams needing centralized reporting or multi-user dashboards
- Users wanting automatic cloud backup or mobile access
- Non-technical users preferring GUI-based installation
How teams use it
Developer Productivity Analysis
Track time spent in IDE, browser, and terminal to identify context-switching patterns and optimize focus time
Freelancer Time Documentation
Create detailed activity logs for client billing while maintaining complete data privacy
Personal Habit Tracking
Annotate timelines with coffee intake, exercise, and breaks to correlate habits with productive periods
Research Session Logging
Visualize time allocation across reading, writing, and analysis tasks for academic workflow optimization
Tech snapshot
Python65%
Makefile17%
C10%
HTML5%
JavaScript2%
Shell1%
Frequently asked questions
Does ulogme send my data to any external servers?
No. All data is stored locally in log files on your machine. The web interface runs on localhost and never uploads activity data anywhere.
Which operating systems are supported?
Currently only Ubuntu and OSX are supported. Windows is not supported at this time.
Why does the interface require a manual refresh?
You need to click the refresh button to pull in newly recorded activity. This ensures the visualization reflects your most recent computer usage.
What browsers work with ulogme?
Browsers supporting ECMAScript 6 Promises work best. Chrome is fully supported; older Firefox versions may have compatibility issues.
Why does Ubuntu installation require sudo authentication?
The showkey command used for keystroke frequency logging requires elevated permissions to access keyboard input events.
Project at a glance
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Repo age11 years old
Last commit5 years ago
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