🎯 Code Time Tracker

Welcome to Code Time Tracker – a sleek, lightweight, and powerful VS Code extension designed to help you track and analyze your coding time effortlessly. Stay productive, gain insights, and boost your efficiency with real-time tracking! 🚀

✨ Features at a Glance

⏳ Real-Time Tracking

✔️ Automatically logs time spent on each file.
✔️ Dynamic updates as you work – no manual input needed!

📊 Visual Analytics & Insights

✔️ Live Timer Widget displaying:

• ⏲️ Total coding time
• 📂 Active file being edited
• ⏸️ Pause & ▶ Resume buttons ✔️ Bar Chart Visualization – see coding time per file. ✔️ Status Bar Clock – always visible in VS Code.

🎯 Pause & Resume Tracking

✔️ Need a break? Pause the tracker anytime.
✔️ Hit Resume when you’re back at it.
✔️ Ensures precise time logging.

📌 Persistent Data Tracking

✔️ Logs persist even after restarting VS Code.
✔️ Helps maintain long-term coding activity records.

⚡ Lightweight & Non-Intrusive

✔️ Runs efficiently in the background.
✔️ No performance slowdowns, just seamless tracking.

📊 Visual Analytics & Insights

🚀 Installation

1. Open Visual Studio Code.
2. Go to the Extensions Marketplace.
3. Search for Code Time Tracker.
4. Click Install.
5. Activate the extension by running Show Code Time Tracker from the Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P / Cmd+Shift+P).

📌 How to Use

🎬 Step 1: Launch the Timer Widget

🔹 Open the Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P / Cmd+Shift+P).
🔹 Type Show Code Time Tracker and select it.
🔹 The Timer Widget & Chart will appear in a webview panel.

🎯 Step 2: Start Coding & Track Time

🟢 Open any file and begin coding.
🟢 Total Time updates dynamically.
🟢 The Active File section shows the file you’re editing.
🟢 The Bar Chart visualizes time spent per file.

⏸ Step 3: Pause & Resume Tracking

⏸ Click Pause to stop tracking temporarily.
▶ Click Resume to continue logging time.

⌛ Step 4: Monitor Time in the Status Bar

📌 A Status Bar Clock shows total coding duration.
🖱 Hover over it for additional insights.

🛠 Extension Settings

This extension provides the following customizable settings:

• codeTimeTracker.enable: ✅ Enable/disable time tracking.
• codeTimeTracker.resetTime: 🔄 Manually reset tracked time.

🚀 Upcoming Features

🔹 Project-based Time Tracking – monitor time per project!
🔹 Custom Reports – export data for better productivity analysis.
🔹 Dark Mode Support – for an even sleeker UI.

⚠ Known Issues

• ⏳ The timer may reset if VS Code crashes unexpectedly.
• 📁 Performance may vary on very large projects.

📜 Release Notes

🔥 Version 1.1.0 (Latest)

✔️ Added Status Bar Clock.
✔️ Improved performance and UI responsiveness.

🚀 Version 1.0.0

✔️ Initial release of Code Time Tracker.

💡 Contributing

We ❤️ open-source contributions! If you’d like to enhance this extension, feel free to submit a pull request or open an issue on GitHub.

💬 Need Help?

For issues, feature requests, or support, visit our GitHub Repository.

📜 License

This extension is released under the MIT License.

🚀 Happy Coding with Code Time Tracker! ⏳💻