Pretty cool, eh? Best part about Wakatime is I don’t have to press a button to start tracking my time. It does it automatically, it’s really something thus I wanted to share it with you.

It works like this:

1) Open your text editor

2) That’s it! It will do everything for you, pretty amazing right?

There are no tricks. You just need to register a Wakatime account (did I mention it’s free?) and insert the API key to your text-editor. I’ll show you how to do it here.

“Alllllllllllright, let me try it..”

Head over to https://wakatime.com/ and register your free account.

Signup

Grab your account API key

Grab your API key. Don’t share it anyone because the data will get unreliable. We want reliable data!

Great, here’s how you can install it for Atom and Sublime.

Atom

Assuming you have Atom Package Manager, here’s how to install it. If you don’t have APM, go to Atom → Install shell commands.

That’s it! We now have the package. Now we need to insert our API key.

Atom → Preferences → Packages → search for Wakatime → Settings → Enter your API key.