Busy Bee

AI-powered productivity insights for developers in Visual Studio Code

Understand your focus time, coding activity, file switching, diagnostics, edit sessions, commits, and workflow patterns directly inside VS Code.

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What is Busy Bee?

Busy Bee is a Visual Studio Code extension that helps developers understand how they work.

It tracks coding activity, focus time, file switching, edit sessions, diagnostics, task activity, and commit-related workflow data, then shows those insights inside an in-editor dashboard.

Busy Bee helps you see your development patterns without leaving VS Code.

Why use Busy Bee?

Busy Bee is useful if you want to understand your daily coding workflow more clearly.

It helps answer questions like:

• How much focused coding time did I have today?
• When am I most active while coding?
• How often do I switch between files?
• Which files create the most errors or warnings?
• How long does it take me to fix issues?
• How much work goes into each commit?
• How does my productivity change over time?

Busy Bee is designed for developers who want better focus, cleaner workflows, and more visibility into their coding habits.

How do I start?

Getting started is simple:

1. Install Busy Bee from the VS Code Marketplace.
2. Open VS Code.
3. Sign in with GitHub.
4. Code normally.
5. Open the Busy Bee dashboard to view your insights.

Busy Bee starts automatically after VS Code startup and begins tracking supported productivity metrics after authentication.

Is my data safe?

Busy Bee is designed with developer privacy in mind.

• No productivity data is collected before sign-in.
• Signing out stops tracking.
• File contents are not collected.
• Busy Bee focuses on activity metadata such as timestamps, counts, diagnostics, language type, edit activity, and workflow metrics.
• Authentication is handled through GitHub sign-in.
• Your metrics are used to power your personal productivity dashboard.

Busy Bee is built to help you understand your workflow, not to collect your source code.

Main features

Productivity dashboard

Busy Bee includes an in-editor dashboard that gives you a clear view of your development activity.

You can use the dashboard to review focus time, coding activity, diagnostics, file switching, editing behaviour, task activity, and workflow trends.

Focus and activity tracking

Busy Bee tracks active coding sessions, idle time, and focus streaks.

This helps you understand when you are deeply focused and when your workflow becomes interrupted.

Useful insights include:

• Active coding time
• Idle periods
• Focus streak duration
• Session activity patterns
• Daily productivity behaviour

File switching insights

Busy Bee monitors how often you switch between files during a workspace session.

Frequent switching can show debugging activity, context switching, or fragmented focus. These insights help you understand how your attention moves across a project.

Edit session tracking

Busy Bee tracks when editing starts, when it pauses, and how long active editing sessions last.

This helps separate real coding activity from simply having VS Code open.

Busy Bee can track patterns such as:

• Active edit sessions
• Save activity
• Editing duration
• Changes between work periods
• Coding session boundaries

Diagnostics and fix-time insights

Busy Bee monitors workspace diagnostics such as errors and warnings.

It helps you understand which files create the most issues and how long it takes to resolve them.

This can help identify:

• Files with high error or warning activity
• Error-heavy coding sessions
• Fix-time patterns
• Diagnostic density over time
• Areas of the project that may need more attention

Task and workflow tracking

Busy Bee can track task runs inside the workspace.

This helps show how often you run development tasks such as builds, tests, scripts, or other workflow commands.

These insights can help you understand your build-test-debug cycle.

Commit activity insights

Busy Bee connects coding activity with Git commit behaviour.

This helps show how editing sessions relate to commits and how much work goes into each commit.

GitHub authentication

Busy Bee uses GitHub sign-in to connect your extension activity with your personal productivity dashboard.

Available authentication commands:

Busy Bee: Sign in with GitHub
Busy Bee: Sign out

After signing in, Busy Bee starts supported tracking automatically.

Getting started

1. Install the extension

Search for Busy Bee in the VS Code Extensions panel, or install it from the Marketplace:

Busy Bee on VS Code Marketplace

2. Open the dashboard

Click the Busy Bee icon in the VS Code Activity Bar.

3. Sign in with GitHub

Run the command:

Busy Bee: Sign in with GitHub

After sign-in, Busy Bee starts collecting supported productivity metrics.

4. Code normally

Continue working in VS Code as usual.

Busy Bee runs in the background and updates your dashboard with productivity and workflow insights.

Requirements

• Visual Studio Code ^1.107.0
• GitHub account for authentication
• Internet connection for metric sync and dashboard updates

Feedback and support

Found a bug, have a feature request, or want to share feedback?

Please use the feedback form below:

Submit Busy Bee feedback

You can also contact the author directly:

Author: NDRanasinghe Support: dilushar10@gmail.com

When reporting a bug, please include your VS Code version, Busy Bee extension version, operating system, and a short description of the issue.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

Made with focus by NDRanasinghe