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Renan Ferro
Renan Ferro

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WakaTime: A powerful, nice, free plugin that you should use!

Hey guys, how are you?!

Today I'd like to share and talk about a nice and interesting plugin for ours developers!

If you sometimes wanted to see somethings like:

✅ The most used IDEA
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✅ Most codified languages
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✅ More coded projects
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✅ Most codified project feature
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✅ Your development insights 
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✅ Team Goals
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And some other cool and interesting stuff?!

I need to show for you the WakaTime!

WakaTime is a plugin for you to use in your favorite IDE and with that you can follow, have access to various useful and interesting information and follow up your day to day code through the available options of WakaTime Dashboard!

And it supports you to be able to integrate it with: Github, Gitlab, Bitbucket and others!

As they say:

WakaTime is committed to making time tracking fully automatic for every programmer. By creating open source plugins for IDEs and text editors, we give powerful insights about how you code, and let you get back to what matters most: creating amazing software.

They have many possibilities for integrations, such as:

And many others and you can find the other's possibilities of integrations here: Plugins Available's


Some images of some examples of interesting and useful features that we can find in WakaTime:

✨ General dashboard with various information:

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✨ Details of activities in a specific project:

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✨ The most worked features in a project:

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That's all folks!

It's been very useful to keep up with my day to day code, see what else I'm working on, like what project, most coded language and a few other things!

See you soon 🤟🤟🤟

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