Projects sharing features with Activitywatch

Kanboard is a self-hosted Kanban project management tool and productivity suite designed for tracking software tasks and team collaboration. It provides a visual system for managing workflows through the use of boards, columns, and cards. The project features an extensible plugin framework and a comprehensive API for programmatic task and project administration. It includes specialized identity management through LDAP integration, allowing for the synchronization of user accounts and group permissions from directory servers. The system covers a wide range of capabilities, including event-dri

Hammerspoon is a programmable automation engine for macOS that enables deep system-level control through a Lua scripting environment. By bridging high-level scripts with native Objective-C APIs, it allows users to interact with the operating system's accessibility tree, intercept hardware input streams, and manage the lifecycle of running applications. The project distinguishes itself through an event-driven architecture that registers asynchronous hooks for system notifications and hardware events. This allows for real-time automation, such as remapping keyboard and mouse inputs, managing wi

This project is a community-curated directory of open-source software designed for deployment in private server environments and home labs. It serves as a comprehensive resource for discovering independent, self-hosted alternatives to mainstream cloud services, enabling users to maintain full data ownership and control over their digital infrastructure. The directory is structured through a hierarchical taxonomy that organizes a vast collection of applications into logical categories, ranging from media management and data analytics to private communication and team productivity tools. It dis

Super-productivity is a cross-platform productivity tool that integrates task management, time tracking, and data synchronization. It functions as a task management application for organizing daily work through todo lists and timeboxing, while serving as time tracking software to record activity durations and generate worklogs. The project features a synchronization layer that imports tickets and tasks from external project management tools, specifically Jira and GitHub, into a centralized local workflow. Data consistency across multiple devices is maintained through cloud storage synchroniza

Tai is a desktop activity tracker and self-hosted productivity monitor designed to record the amount of time spent on specific software applications and websites. It functions as a software usage monitor and website browsing logger to analyze digital time distribution. The system provides capabilities for digital productivity analysis, personal time tracking, and screen time management. It can also be used for employee activity monitoring to audit software engagement and workflows. The project handles monitoring and observability through time-series usage logging and local persistence storag

This is a desktop HTTP client application used for constructing, sending, and analyzing HTTP and GraphQL requests. It provides a graphical interface for API development and testing, including a dedicated GraphQL client with schema-driven autocomplete and validation. The project features an integrated AI assistant that generates API requests from natural language prompts. It supports a complex organization system of spaces and collections with hierarchical authentication inheritance and recursive variable resolution for dynamic request values. The tool covers a broad range of capabilities, in

Akaunting is a modular business enterprise resource planning system and self-hosted accounting software. It provides a comprehensive platform for small business financial management, centering on a double-entry bookkeeping system with a general ledger and chart of accounts. The platform is designed for extensibility through a module-based architecture and a dedicated marketplace for procuring third-party applications. It supports multi-tenant data isolation and utilizes role-based access control to manage granular user permissions. Its capability surface covers a wide range of business opera

Dawarich is a self-hosted location history manager and travel journaling platform. It functions as a personal travel archive that collects GPS coordinates and movement data, providing a private alternative to proprietary tracking services. The system utilizes a PostgreSQL geospatial database to store coordinates, visits, and custom geofence boundaries. The project distinguishes itself as a geospatial data converter and visualization tool, capable of transforming location history between formats such as GPX, KML, and GeoJSON. It allows users to organize GPS tracks and geotagged photos into nam

This project is an embedded operating system for creating decentralized peer-to-peer communication networks using long-range radio hardware. It provides an off-grid messaging protocol for transmitting text and GPS coordinates without relying on cellular or internet infrastructure. The firmware implements a secure communication framework using shared keys and high-grade encryption to protect data transmitted over the air. It includes a LoRaWAN hardware interface to manage radio parameters and an MQTT radio gateway to bridge local mesh traffic to external networks. The system covers a broad ra

Calibre is a comprehensive suite for digital library management, serving as a centralized hub for organizing, converting, and editing e-book collections. It functions as a multi-purpose platform that combines a relational database for metadata tracking with a powerful processing engine capable of transforming document formats and restructuring internal markup. Beyond local management, the software acts as a content server, enabling users to host their libraries over a network for remote access and reading via standard web browsers. The project distinguishes itself through its deep extensibili

Anki is a cross-platform flashcard management system designed to optimize long-term memory retention through spaced-repetition learning. It functions as a digital learning assistant that uses active recall practice and automated scheduling algorithms to determine the ideal timing for card reviews based on individual performance history. The core system relies on a local relational database to ensure data persistence and portability, while supporting complex study workflows through flexible note-type schema modeling and template-driven content rendering. The platform distinguishes itself throu

Flow-dashboard is a centralized personal productivity and knowledge management platform designed to track habits, manage tasks, and aggregate data from disparate sources. It functions as a personal analytics engine that stores records in a relational database, allowing users to visualize behavioral patterns and progress toward long-term goals through detailed charts and reports. The system distinguishes itself through a conversational interface that enables users to interact with their data using natural language commands. By integrating with external services, it synchronizes activity logs,

Joplin is an open-source, cross-platform note-taking application designed for secure, private knowledge management. It functions as a local-first productivity platform, maintaining a complete relational database on the user's device to ensure offline availability and high-performance data retrieval. The application prioritizes data sovereignty by implementing an end-to-end encryption layer, which secures all information locally with a master key before any synchronization occurs. The platform distinguishes itself through a delta-based synchronization engine that transmits only specific file c

Polybar is a customizable X11 status bar and Linux desktop panel. It serves as a system information dashboard and window manager integration tool, rendering real-time hardware metrics, system status, and window state for Linux desktops. The project features an inter-process communication system that allows separate processes to trigger dynamic updates or execute actions across the environment. It also includes a system for building hierarchical interactive menus that use this messaging to launch applications and system settings. Capabilities cover system monitoring for network connectivity a

DeDRM_tools is a software suite designed to automate the removal of digital rights management from personal e-book files. By stripping restrictive encryption layers during the import process, the utility enables users to manage their digital libraries and convert protected files into open formats for use across various reading devices. The system operates through a modular architecture that utilizes plugin-based event interception to hook into host applications. It performs cryptographic key extraction by scanning local configuration files and memory, applying algorithm-specific decryption to

BookStack is a self-hosted knowledge base platform designed for organizing, storing, and managing structured documentation. It utilizes a hierarchical content model that arranges information into nested trees of books, chapters, and pages, supported by a dedicated search index for rapid retrieval across the entire knowledge base. The platform distinguishes itself through deep integration with enterprise identity providers, allowing organizations to centralize authentication and access control via LDAP, SAML, or OIDC. It provides extensive administrative control over the content lifecycle, inc

NodeBB is a real-time, self-hosted community forum platform built on Node.js. It is designed to support scalable discussion environments by utilizing a document-oriented database for content storage and an in-memory engine for high-speed data retrieval and session management. The platform provides a comprehensive administrative interface for managing user groups, forum settings, and system health. What distinguishes the platform is its native support for federated social networking via the ActivityPub protocol, allowing forums to exchange content, synchronize discussions, and interact with de

Cerebro is a cross-platform productivity tool and keyboard-driven command palette. It serves as a central search interface and desktop application launcher for finding and initiating the execution of local files, installed software, and web services. The application is an extensible search tool that supports a plugin system, allowing third-party modules to register custom search providers and new functional capabilities. The software covers several capability areas, including local file system navigation and preview, integrated web search, and productivity utilities for natural language mat

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Pomotroid is a cross-platform desktop Pomodoro timer application designed for managing work and break intervals. It functions as a focus manager and productivity statistics tracker that utilizes a high-precision timer engine to organize focus sessions. The application distinguishes itself by operating as a WebSocket timer broadcaster, featuring a local server that streams timer state and lifecycle events to external automation scripts and stream overlays. It also includes a productivity trend analysis system that logs completed rounds to a local database to generate daily summaries, weekly st

OpenTSDB is a distributed time series database and metrics engine designed for storing and managing massive volumes of high-cardinality system metrics. It functions as a data store and analytics platform that enables large-scale metric ingestion and infrastructure performance monitoring across a distributed cluster. The system distinguishes itself through a distributed storage abstraction that supports multiple backends such as HBase, Cassandra, and Google Bigtable. It utilizes a hierarchical metric tree to organize time series and employs numeric identifier indexing to reduce storage footpri

Solidtime is time tracking software designed for freelancers and agencies to record work durations, manage billable hours, and monitor labor allocation. It serves as a professional services automation tool that organizes work into clients and projects while managing team member assignments. The system features a billable rate manager that defines hourly costs at the organizational, member, and project levels using hierarchical overrides to calculate total billing. It includes a project management tool for organizing clients and tasks into hierarchies with role-based access permissions. The p

Wakapi is a self-hosted activity tracker that collects coding time and language statistics using the WakaTime API protocol. It monitors time spent on projects and programming languages to analyze productivity trends and coding patterns. The project provides a productivity dashboard for analyzing development patterns through time distribution plots and activity reports. It includes a badge generator to create dynamic SVG images and status cards for profile readmes, as well as public leaderboards to rank users based on coding activity. The system manages identity through local credentials or O

Tasmota is a universal firmware platform for ESP8266 and ESP32 microcontrollers, designed to provide local control and management of smart home hardware. It functions as an event-driven automation controller that replaces proprietary factory firmware, allowing users to manage relays, sensors, and lighting systems without relying on external cloud services. The system is built on a modular driver architecture that enables dynamic hardware configuration and peripheral support through a web-based management interface. The platform distinguishes itself through a template-driven hardware mapping s

Firefox is a cross-platform web browser engine designed to render web content, execute JavaScript, and manage secure browsing sessions. It utilizes a multi-process isolation architecture that distributes browser tasks across independent operating system processes to ensure stability and prevent site-specific failures from impacting the entire application. The engine incorporates a sandboxed execution environment to restrict web content and untrusted scripts to isolated memory compartments, enforcing security policies that prevent unauthorized access to system resources. The project distinguis

Hazelcast is a distributed data platform that combines an in-memory data grid with a stream processing engine to support real-time analytics and event-driven applications. It functions as a partitioned, distributed key-value store that replicates data across cluster nodes to provide low-latency access and high availability. The platform also serves as a distributed SQL query engine, allowing users to execute standard SQL statements against both in-memory datasets and external data sources. What distinguishes Hazelcast is its use of a distributed consensus subsystem to maintain strongly consis

LuLu is an open-source application firewall designed for macOS that monitors and controls outgoing network traffic. It functions by intercepting connection attempts at the system level, allowing users to approve or deny network access for individual programs to prevent unauthorized data transmission. The software provides granular control over application-level communication, ensuring that only trusted or explicitly permitted software can establish external connections. By maintaining stateful tracking of network flows and validating the cryptographic signatures of requesting binaries, it pro