You might be interested in a generic time tracking daemon like arbtt[1]. It takes a snapshot of your activities across all programs in much more granular and co

You might be interested in a generic time tracking daemon like arbtt[1]. It takes a snapshot of your activities across all programs in much more granular and configurable interval. It stores the data in binary format which is more space efficient but ships with tools that can spit out data for further scripting. Independent of data collection, arbtt also has a DSL that lets you tag your samples programmatically. Which means you can use logic such as conditionals and regex on data such as active program name, window title etc to mark a sample productive or distracted etc. The weird thing I do with Emacs here is run a function every N minutes and figure out productive work ratio in that interval with help of other scripts. Then it compares the ratio to a target threshold and performs actions based on if it meets the goal or not. Usually I warn myself if I am not being productive, but when I am feeling particularly intolerant of procrastination I lock myself out of my own laptop for a few minutes, to clear up my head. [1] https://arbtt.nomeata.de/ https://arbtt.nomeata.de/