WakaTime is a service that provides automated time tracking and insights into your coding activity across different editors and IDEs. It integrates with popular coding tools like Visual Studio Code, PyCharm, and Xcode to monitor your coding time and provide analytics through interactive dashboards and reports.
Some key features of WakaTime include:
- Automated time tracking of coding activity across projects and languages without manual intervention. It tracks details like lines of code written, files edited, projects worked on, etc.
- Interactive dashboards showing insights like time coded per day/week/month, top languages and projects by time-coded, coding activity heatmaps, etc. This helps identify patterns and improve productivity.
- Weekly or monthly email reports summarizing your coding activity, top projects, frequently used languages, etc. Useful for reflection.
- Browser extensions that show your daily coding stats on sites like GitHub. It lets you showcase your coding activity level to others.
- REST API access allows integration with other developer tools for custom reports.
WakaTime is helpful for developers looking to understand their coding patterns better, become more productive through metrics-driven development, and showcase their development activity.