A simple time tracker

I've been obsessed with tracking how I spend my time for years now. Tried everything - RescueTime, Toggl, Clockify, Time Doctor, you name it. The best one I found was Rize, but at $12/month, it adds up, and like most of these tools, it's a resource hog.

The irony kept bugging me: I'm using a "productivity" app that actually makes my computer less productive. These things pull 200-300MB of RAM. And they're slow - all that fancy UI and feature bloat means waiting around just to check how you spent your morning.

I've probably spent more time researching time tracking apps than actually benefiting from them. Classic overthinking problem.

This weekend, I said screw it and built something dead simple:

• Runs silently in the background
• CLI interface only (no fancy UI eating resources)
• Sits at ~5MB memory usage

The whole thing just watches what app you're focused on and logs it. View reports through terminal commands. Nothing fancy, but it does exactly what I need without the overhead.

Sometimes the simplest solution is the right one 🤷‍♂️