It’s now been 104 days since the last “bimonthly” development update, this means:

It’s time for a new one, and this is a unusually good “bimonthly” update. Development updates will now be quarterly.

Milestones

2018-05-28: We released v0.8.0b2.

Major performance improvement: pre-merging of heartbeats. (aw-client#33)

Query2 now supports a syntax for creating lists, allowing queries to return multiple things. (aw-core#50)

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2018-05-30: We released v0.8.0b3.

Major performance improvements by pre-merging heartbeats on the server and client-side

Improved design of the web UI

Implemented flooding (aw-core#58) which significantly improving the accuracy some types of events (notably window events, see this issue for numbers).

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2018-06-22: We hit 1000 stars on GitHub

2018-07-03: We hit 5000 downloads and we released v0.8.0b4!

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2018-07-09: We released v0.8.0b5.

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2018-07-17: We hit over 200 daily active users for the web watcher.

2018-08-14: We hit 6000 downloads

2018-08-27: We released v0.8.0b6.

Added a new timeline visualization to better visualize event history. (aw-webui#97)

Fixed the highly popular Windows-specific issue where all modules started by aw-qt also opened a terminal window which they ran in. (activitywatch#212)

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Unknown date:

At some point we implemented support for the text editors Vim and VSCode, probably in v0.8.0b4. This included a visualization in the web UI where you can see the most edited files, most edited languages, and most edited projects!

Going forward

Raw SQL datastore @johan-bjareholt is still working on a raw SQL implementation of the Peewee datastore that is expected to give further performance improvements, among other things. (aw-core#57)

Import bucket API (aw-server#41) And later web UI button to make export/import cycle possible, enabling the ability to manually move data between instances with a simple export file.

Decentralized sync We’ve started researching the possibility for a very simple type of sync where you choose a folder that is being synced by Syncthing/Dropbox/Google Drive which is then used to exchange data between hosts. (aw-server#50) A huge step towards finally implementing a decentralized sync MVP (thanks to Syncthing ).



What else?

During the summer @ErikBjare, @johan-bjareholt, @Powersource, and three other wonderful people have been developing Thankful under the group name Superuser Labs. We think we’re onto something kinda amazing, but we have a bit to go before it’s an improvement over existing donation methods.

Support us!

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