Ever wonder how much money you've made while fixing that one annoying bug? Now you'll know.
PayMood turns your VS Code status bar into a real-time earnings ticker. Set your hourly rate, hit the timer, and watch your income grow — one keystroke at a time.
✨ What it does
💵 Live earnings — See your running total right in the status bar as you code.
⏱️ Smart time tracking — Separately tracks Coding time (active edits) and Thinking time (focused but not typing), because staring at the screen counts too.
📊 Dashboard — Open the PayMood panel to see today's breakdown: time spent, money earned, and your settings at a glance.
🌐 Shared preferences — Schedule/pay settings are saved globally and shared across your workspaces.
🔄 Persists across windows — Close a window, open another — your daily totals stay intact until midnight.
🪟 Multi-window aware — Running multiple VS Code windows? PayMood syncs timer state automatically.
🚀 Quick start
Install the extension from the VS Code Marketplace.
Open the Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P / Cmd+Shift+P) and run PayMood: Open Dashboard.
Enter your hourly rate and work hours, then start the timer.
Watch the money roll in. 🤑
🎮 Commands
Command
What it does
PayMood: Open Dashboard
Open the earnings & settings panel
PayMood: Toggle Status Bar
Show or hide the status bar ticker
PayMood: Reset Today Activity
Clear today's coding & thinking totals
PayMood: Reset Settings
Restore all settings to defaults
🧠 How time tracking works
Coding time — counted while a VS Code window is focused and you've made a text edit within the last ~90 seconds.
Thinking time — counted while a window is focused but outside that recent-coding window. (Yes, planning counts.)
Both totals persist for the full local day and reset at midnight.
Multi-window sync uses last-write-wins, so your totals stay consistent no matter how many windows you have open.
🛠️ Development
From the repo root:
cd vscode-extension
npm install
npm run build
Then open the repo in VS Code and run the Run Extension launch config to start an Extension Development Host.
Entry point: src/extension.ts
Storage helpers: src/storage.ts
Build output: dist/extension.js (esbuild via npm run build)
Webview assets (CSS/JS): media/
Webview security: strict CSP with nonce-based script loading
📝 Release notes
v0.1.10 — Clarified settings semantics: dashboard now explicitly labels settings as globally shared across workspaces.
v0.1.9 — Coding today and Thinking today now persist as full local-day totals and no longer reset when a window goes inactive or closes. Added PayMood: Reset Today Activity command.
