WakaTime Reviews

Social recommendations and mentions

• Ask HN: How do you track your work hours?

  I use https://wakatime.com/, which is great if you are a dev and want to get a weekly summary of how you spent your time. - Source: Hacker News / 8 days ago

• Ask HN: How do you track your work hours?

  - kind of a diary to help me remember what I worked on https://wakatime.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 8 days ago

• How many of you are told to lie on your 'billable hours'?

  While my situation is slightly different than yours, and I am only a junior dev. My manager and I started to use wakatime to more accurately determine how long we are spending on particular projects. Thought I would share in case it could be useful to you in proving to certain individuals how your time is actually allocated. - Source: Reddit / 11 days ago

• Best Websites For Coders

  WakaTime : leaderboards of coding metrics collected via editor plugins. - Source: dev.to / 2 months ago

• Measuring an Engineering Organization

  I think a lot of the bad rap comes from how the measurements are used - I personally like to know my trends for how many hours/commits/etc I did in different areas during a time period. I use Wakatime[1] in my editor and love checking in every once in a while. However I would never ask everyone on my team to install it and share the dashboards, because then the measurements may be used the wrong way, e.g. "Alice... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• What "new-to-you" tool did you recently start using that just changed your workflow for the better?

  Wakatime, after sinking a lot of hours into trying different time tracking solutions it's the only one that works 100% of the time. If you do hourly billing, timesheets or just want some personal analytics it's a fantastic tool. - Source: Reddit / 3 months ago

• What are some good personal projects to complete while searching for entry-level work?

  I built an integration for the WakaTime service; https://wakatime.com . It's available on the iOS app store and one of them is an editor integration. Both don't have many users. 3 DAU on the former and maybe like 1 DAU on the latter lol Not a good investment of time overall but w/e. - Source: Reddit / 4 months ago

• free-for.dev

  Wakatime.com — Quantified self-metrics about your coding activity, using text editor plugins, limited plan for free. - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago

• Detailed metrics of your coding activity using WakaTime

  WakaTime is an open source plugin for metrics, insights, and time tracking automatically generated from your programming activity. - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago

• Building a distributed task queue in Python

  It's being used in production at https://wakatime.com and performing better than Celery was, but yes it's an internal project that was open sourced early stage. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• Your tips for time recording in emacs?

  You might like WakaTime and its corresponding Emacs mode: https://github.com/wakatime/wakatime-mode. - Source: Reddit / 7 months ago

• Beautify GitHub profile

  There is a Vs Code extension called WakaTime, once you set it up, it will calculate the minutes of you coding a specific programming language. - Source: dev.to / 7 months ago

• Svelte and TailwindCSS on Github Codespaces

  When everything is done, I usually enable Wakatime extension for self time tracking just want to know how much time I used for specific project even it just my personal project XD. - Source: dev.to / 9 months ago

• Analyze your coding activity in a privacy-friendly way

  Shout-out to Ferdinand Mtsch for creating this amazing open-source tool and thanks to Wakatime for open-sourcing their plugins. - Source: dev.to / 9 months ago

• Are there any lesser-known tools you use a lot in your work?

  Wakatime It keeps track of how much time you spend in a project in your IDE, and specifies that per branch, file, filetype, and many other options. Free option keeps 14 days of history, paid plan even more. Makes time tracking much easier! - Source: Reddit / 10 months ago

• Activity tracking software

  Hehe, you may have a look at WakaTime then. It will log your time spent coding, by Projects, IDE, and languages. - Source: Reddit / 10 months ago

• QtCreator Wakatime plugin

  It makes using Wakatime with QtCreator possible. For more information on Wakatime checkout https://wakatime.com. - Source: Reddit / about 1 year ago

• Zsh Plugins Commit TOP

  Wakatime (wbingli) : - Automatic time tracking for commands in ZSH using wakatime. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• 10 things every software developer should know to stay productive

  Sometimes setting up a timer for every project seems like too much work, but there are other times where it really helps push you to get done faster. If you want to challenge yourself using timers, make sure to put something on the line (i.e. money). If nothing else works, then try giving yourself small goals like finishing one section within 5 minutes! Don't be sloppy. You can also use extensions like WakaTime. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• WakaStats Widget

  I wanted a widget that would give me a glance of the data from my WakaTime account. - Source: Reddit / over 1 year ago

• Looking for a plugin to track my coding habits.

  VS Code makes it so damn easy to install plugins, and I had 3 for tracking the amount of time I spent coding: Wakatime, CodeStats, and Code::Time. Each provided me with different data. - Source: Reddit / over 1 year ago