Simple app to track what I'm doing (almost) in real-time for macOS, Windows, Linux, Chrome, Firefox (Android and iOS coming soon)

Builds

• ./apps/cli-macos/whatmedoin.dmg
• ./apps/cli-windows/wmd.exe
• ./apps/browser/chrome and ./apps/browser/firefox

TODO

• Make native Android and iOS apps
• Add rate-limiting (for browser, especially)
• Make it more "public":
  • Allow setting application names to track
  • Allow setting browser tab titles and urls to track

Setup

• Install Bun, rustup, cargo-watch, Railway CLI, Node.js, Xcode
• bun install
• Set env variables in .env for each app
• For mobile app, follow React Native/Expo docs for Android Studio/Xcode setup

Windows CLI: ./apps/cli-windows

• bun run build
• add the wmd.exe to PATH
• (requires admin) wmd install to add to startup, wmd start to start, wmd stop to stop, wmd uninstall to remove from startup

Chrome & Firefox extensions: ./apps/browser/chrome/ and ./apps/browser/firefox/

NOTE: For Chrome, set correct Chrome executable path, make sure openssl and ouch CLI tools are available (or use alternatives)

• For Chromium browser: Manage extensions => Load unpacked => select chrome folder
• For Firefox: Debug Add-ons => Load Temporary Add-on => select firefox folder
• Open the extension popup and set API URL

macOS system tray app: ./apps/cli-macos/whatmedoin/

• To create whatmedoin.app:
  • Open in the project in Xcode
  • Product > Archive > Distribute App > Custom > Clone App
• To package as .dmg, put whatmedoin.app inside ./cli-macos and run bun run package

Tracks

• macOS, Windows, Linux

  • If I'm using a browser:

    • Learning Japanese - TK guide, animelon, JP YT channels open
    • Listening to Music playlist on YouTube - "Music" playlist open
    • Watching YouTube - None of the above

  • If I'm using certain apps - current foreground window:

    • Blender
    • WezTerm
    • Cursor
    • Powershell
    • Games (osu!, Elden Ring, WuWa, ...)
    • Slack
    • Anki
    • Heptabase

• Android/iOS - If requests are coming to server, then I'm on my phone

• No update means I'm AFK

Solutions tried

• macOS, Windows, Linux:
  • Tauri with x-win crate - crashes for some reason
  • NPM lib: https://github.com/paymoapp/active-window - works, wanted lightweight CLI and daemon solution
  • Bun + C => executable - works, wasn't sure how to turn it into a daemon
  • Flutter - works, couldn't get the foreground window detection working reliably, also wanted lightweight CLI and daemon solution
  • Rust CLI with x-win (Windows) [✓]
  • Native macOS app (macOS) [✓]
• Android/iOS:
  • Flutter - works and was easier to setup than RN, might switch later
  • React Native app that's always running - couldn't get the background service working
  • Native Android app - too much work, might switch later
• API
  • Go + Echo [✓]
  • Bun + Hono - too much memory usage
  • Rust + Tide - might switch later
• Browser extension
  • Vanilla JS/TS with Bun [✓]
  • Rust + WASM - have to compile to JS at the end anyway

Research - enable cross compilation using cross-rs between macOS, Windows, Linux

Toolchain setup

• rustup default stable
• cargo install cross
• rustup target add aarch64-apple-darwin macOS needed
• rustup toolchain install stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu --force-non-host
• rustup toolchain install stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu --force-non-host

Helper scripts

• "build:windows": "cross build --target x86_64-pc-windows-gnu --release && cp target/x86_64-pc-windows-gnu/release/cli.exe ./cli-windows.exe"
• "build:linux": "cross build --target x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu --release && cp target/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/cli ./cli-linux"
• "build:linuxarm": "cross build --target aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu --release && cp target/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/cli ./cli-linuxarm"
• "build:macos": "cross build --target aarch64-apple-darwin --release && cp target/aarch64-apple-darwin/release/cli ./cli-macos"