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The Timer

The Timer

Olebeh

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| (0) | Free
A lightweight extension created to track the time spent coding
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Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.
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Timer

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 timer via command palette or interactable status bar
  • Optional automatic start on workspace open

Extension Settings

  • timer.autoStart.enable: Enable automatic start of session on workspace open

Release Notes

1.0.0

  • Initial release of the extension

1.0.1

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

PRs and issues are very welcome

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