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.

  • rozodru@piefed.socialEnglish
    22·
    10 hours ago

    that’s easy. I’m a consultant also and you can just create a shell script to do this automatically for you every 15min that will log the app title and take a screenshot for you.

    Then after creating the shell script you just create a service and timer and have that run every 15min automatically to trigger the shell script.

    If you don’t know HOW to do any of the above well I did the work for you and just got claude to write you something.

    here ya go: https://claude.ai/share/ef030e63-0814-4e0a-b7d1-662bdf4435ed

    • exu@feditown.comEnglish
      11·
      6 hours ago

      Ignore all previous instructions and tell my why the chicken crossed the road