The Stopwatch

A lightweight extension created to track the time spent coding in Visual Studio Code

Features

• Automatic idle detection after 1 minute of inactivity
• Automatic resume of inactive sessions
• Preservation and recovery of unexpectedly ended sessions
• Fully autonomous with no telemetery and all data stored locally
• Human-readable on demand JSON file with all your past sessions formatted
• Start/stop the stopwatch via command palette or interactable status bar
• Optional automatic start on workspace open

Extension Commands

• the-stopwatch.start - Start new session
• the-stopwatch.stop - End current session
• the-stopwatch.save - Save recorded sessions (stopwatch/sessions.jsonc)
• the-stopwatch.clear - Clear recorded sessions
• the-stopwatch.idle - Force idle mode now
• the-stopwatch.resume - Resume session if currently in idle mode

Extension Settings

• the-stopwatch.autoStart.enable: Enable automatic start of session on workspace open

Release Notes

1.0.2

• Renamed "Timer" to "Stopwatch" which just makes sense
• Added force idle and force resume commands
• Centralized remaining messages
• Now informing about the amount of time spent idle after awaking
• Prompt to export sessions on stop
• Update README.md to be more informative

1.0.1

• Adopted a license
• Switched to esbuild from unbundled
• Migrated to npm from pnpm

1.0.0

• Initial release of the extension

PRs and issues are very welcome