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πŸ’»βš’ Productivity and tracking extensions for Visual Studio Code βš’πŸ’»

Michael "lampe" Lazarski on December 08, 2019

"ItΒ΄s better to wait for a productive programmer to become available than it is to wait for the first available programmer to become productive." ...
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Itachi Uchiha

I prefer Clockify.

It has a vs-code plugin clockify.me/vs-code-time-tracking.

But I'm using WakaTime for my GitHub projects.

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Piotr Suplat • Edited

That's fine as long as you do ALL your work inside VC. But what if I am spending considerable amount of time outside of VC, for example working with databases using SSMS or Workbench? Sometimes you are working for a long period trying to solve a particular problem, and you may not type a single character inside VC? Does this mean that I am not being productive?

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Fred Buecker

Wakatime has plugins for numerous editors and tools. They will accept recommendations for new tools to support.

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Samuele Zanca

I personally prefer wakatime due to it being cross-IDE. e.g. I use a mix of VS 2019 & Sublime (occasionally vs code for purely js/nodejs projects) and wakatime allows me to track my time.
Waka also allows you to see how much time you spend on X project, which already ended up being handy for determining which project at work I needed to assign my time to on our time sheet when I forgot to do it. You can also track your commits to a given repo, but I havent used this feature much since all the work I'm currently doing is closed source.

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Fred Buecker

I'm a big fan of Wakatime as well. My issue though is that I can't make a connection via the plug-in from my corporate system. I am trying to find a compatible plugin that is fully offline and self-contained.

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Oparaononaku maximus

Can you be a coach to me pls?