PayMood (VS Code extension)

Status bar work progress + earnings, with a webview settings dashboard.

Runtime behavior

• Coding today is aggregated across all active VS Code windows on the same machine.
• Thinking today tracks focused-but-not-coding time and is also aggregated across active windows.
• A window is treated as active when it has reported heartbeat updates recently (about the last 20 seconds).
• Multi-window timer state (start / pause / end) auto-syncs using last-write-wins.
• Status bar tooltip shows both Coding today and Thinking today.

Quick start

From the repo root:

1. Install dependencies:

cd vscode-extension
npm install

2. Build the extension:

npm run build

3. Run in VS Code:

• Open the repo in VS Code
• Run the Run Extension launch config (or start an Extension Development Host pointing to vscode-extension/)

Commands

• paymood: Open Dashboard — Open the settings dashboard webview
• paymood: Toggle Status Bar — Show/hide the status bar
• paymood: Reset Settings — Reset all settings to defaults

Development notes

• Extension entry point: src/extension.ts
• Build output: dist/extension.js (esbuild bundle)
• Webview media: CSS and JavaScript live in media/ and are loaded with webview.asWebviewUri(...)
• Webview security: strict Content Security Policy with nonce-based script loading
• Webview state: UI state that should survive reloads is saved with vscode.getState() / vscode.setState()
• Resource roots: webview localResourceRoots is limited to media/