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Currently, ActivityWatch is extremely precise in tracking every window change. However, this precision often contradicts the "cognitive reality" of a work session.
For example: While working for 2 hours in Revit, I might spend 15 seconds switching a song on YouTube or 5 seconds checking a system setting. In the current data model, these few seconds of "non-work" activity immediately break the continuity of the work session, resulting in fragmented blocks and an inaccurate (shorter) total of "Work Time."
The Concept:
A professional work session often includes these tiny, non-related tasks that don't actually break the user's focus or the project's time block. We need a way to "absorb" these micro-interruptions into the surrounding work session if they are below a certain duration threshold.
Proposed Feature/Logic:
Interruption Tolerance: Introduce a setting (e.g., "Max Interruption Duration") where any non-work event shorter than X seconds (e.g., 30-60s) does not break a continuous work session.
Gap Filling vs. Activity Filling: Instead of just filling empty gaps where no activity was recorded, the logic should also be able to "swallow" short, unrelated activities that occur between two blocks of the same project/category.
Billing Accuracy: This would allow freelancers to report a realistic "Total Session Time" that isn't penalized by the 10 seconds it took to skip an ad or reply to a quick system toast.
Questions for the community:
Has anyone developed a custom script or a that accounts for these micro-interruptions?bucket-query
Is there a plan to introduce "Fuzzy Logic" or "Tolerance Thresholds" to the visualization/summary layers of ActivityWatch?
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Currently, ActivityWatch is extremely precise in tracking every window change. However, this precision often contradicts the "cognitive reality" of a work session.
For example: While working for 2 hours in Revit, I might spend 15 seconds switching a song on YouTube or 5 seconds checking a system setting. In the current data model, these few seconds of "non-work" activity immediately break the continuity of the work session, resulting in fragmented blocks and an inaccurate (shorter) total of "Work Time."
The Concept:
A professional work session often includes these tiny, non-related tasks that don't actually break the user's focus or the project's time block. We need a way to "absorb" these micro-interruptions into the surrounding work session if they are below a certain duration threshold.
Proposed Feature/Logic:
Interruption Tolerance: Introduce a setting (e.g., "Max Interruption Duration") where any non-work event shorter than X seconds (e.g., 30-60s) does not break a continuous work session.
Gap Filling vs. Activity Filling: Instead of just filling empty gaps where no activity was recorded, the logic should also be able to "swallow" short, unrelated activities that occur between two blocks of the same project/category.
Billing Accuracy: This would allow freelancers to report a realistic "Total Session Time" that isn't penalized by the 10 seconds it took to skip an ad or reply to a quick system toast.
Questions for the community:
Has anyone developed a custom script or a that accounts for these micro-interruptions?bucket-query
Is there a plan to introduce "Fuzzy Logic" or "Tolerance Thresholds" to the visualization/summary layers of ActivityWatch?
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