The long awaited v0.11 is finally here! 🎉

After 7 long months, we've finally got the v0.11 release ready, and it comes with a lot of new features, bug fixes, and UX improvements. You can read about them all in the changelog below.

New to ActivityWatch? Check out the website and the README.

Installation

See the getting started guide in the documentation.

Downloads

• Windows (.exe, installer)
• macOS (.dmg)
• Linux (.zip)

Honorary mentions

• Michael Bianco (@iloveitaly) for his work on refreshing the web UI design and improving macOS support!
• Janne Uusitupa (@lambdanana) for finding a critical security vulnerability on macOS! (CVE coming soon)

Changelog

The changelog is written on a per-submodule basis. Look under the Feature subheaders for the most user-affecting changes.

BREAKING CHANGE: This release switches all Python-based modules to toml configuration, past configs will no longer be respected! (you need to migrate them if you want to keep any modifications)

Summary

• ✨ Categories can now have colors!
  • Note: If you're updating, your categories will not have any colors set by default.
• ✨ Barchart visualization now supports categories, as well as the weekly/monthly view.
• ✨ New audible-as-active feature, which counts audible browser tabs as you being active (if you use the web watcher)
• ✨ Sunburst visualization now has labels, so you can get an overview from a glance.
• 🍎 Better macOS support
• 🛡️ Fixed security vulnerability on macOS
• 🐛 Many bug fixes
• And a lot more...

activitywatch (bundle repo)

aw-webui

✨ Features (26)

• feat: added link in category settings to the 'category rules' section on the forum (d15d17d)
• feat: added 'show less' button to the summary visualization (9b93879)
• feat: open modal on category creation (#293) (b4aabfa)
• feat: support weekly/monthly view in barchart visualization (#292) (889a911)
• feat: more applications in the default category rules (#261) (d9782c3)
• feat: switched 'top domains' on default view to 'timeline barchart' (9e3367e)
• feat: set server URL via env vars, and improvements to README (#280) (165ec2f)
• feat: added labels to sunburst, updated dependencies (9d13675)
• feat: added setting for using color fallback (6b12059)
• feat: improved style/layout of settings (cb93715)
• feat: added color picker when choosing category color (a2b8446)
• feat: Support import and export of categories (7a3d988)
• feat: maybe done with audible-as-active (f9fa6d2)
• feat: progress on audible-as-active (13a927f)
• feat: added category time to the timeline barchart (86b8eab)
• feat: continued working on category colors (ec2c385)
• feat: started working on category colors (0ef8936)
• feat: improved the category edit tree (now collapsible, fixed icons, only expand one level, show number of subcategories) (f3f24f8)
• feat: pinned/fixed the top menu on Android (a32a672)
• feat: added a different set of default views for Android devices (cfe8f9f)
• feat: added configurable landing page, note for Android users on Home page, and NotFound page when no routes match (bce7235)
• feat: added search to header menu, as well as an 'early feature' notice (b594850)
• feat: added basic search feature (9060c9e)
• feat: made visualizations draggable when editing view (710098d)
• feat: readded the Sunburst Clock visualization (5d51f0d)
• feat: improvements to category tree visualization (collapsible, show percent) (3b1cea4)

aw-client

✨ Features (5)

• feat!: switched config format to toml (#58) (6c460cb)
• feat: added example script for calculating working hours (6fbce36)
• feat: added load_dataframe.py example (9de8095)
• feat: rewrote CLI to use click (b2e7985)
• feat: added redact_sensitive.py example (75efe3c)

aw-core

✨ Features (2)

• feat: added union_no_overlap from aw-research (d6f783d)
• feat: added support for toml config (f4b1bb8)

aw-qt

✨ Features (1)

• feat!: switched config format to toml (#75) (4d6f4e7)

aw-server

✨ Features (1)

• feat!: switched config format to toml (92452af)

aw-server-rust

✨ Features (10)

• feat: added exclude_keyvals transform (e8cc25a)
• feat: added hostname filtering support to find_bucket (7ad9512)
• feat: switched from getopts to clap for aw-server-rust CLI options (c2af4ce)
• feat: more progress on sync, added basic README (a4588f7)
• feat: add ability to override device_id by CLI parameter (67e565c)
• feat: progress on sync (dbe96b1)
• feat: added CLI param to aw-server for skipping legacy import (27a8eb1)
• feat: added ability to override aw-server port and dbpath via CLI arguments (90aa6a5)
• feat: added query parameters to aw-client-rust's get_events, fixed clippy complaints (9a82ea2)
• feat: added period_union transform (294edaf)

aw-watcher-afk

✨ Features (2)

• feat!: switched config format to toml (#49) (ccf6b12)
• feat: switched to pynput for MouseListener and KeyboardListener (297b58c)

aw-watcher-window

✨ Features (1)

• feat!: switched config format to toml (#57) (301449f)