What ActiveAppTracker provides

• Overview of how much time you spend at which application

• Every second(default) your active Application on the Mac is determined via AppleScript

• Every 5 minutes(default) the app writes simple statistics into the statistics file

• Daemon behavior:

  • Once started, it runs in background and will be started on system boot automatically
  • Restarts automatically when killed

How to install

Copy the sample .plist file into the Systems LaunchDaemons folder

• sudo cp activeAppTracker.plist /Library/LaunchDaemons/activeAppTracker.plist

• Adjust the /Library/LaunchDaemons/activeAppTracker.plist to match your paths for
  (1) the program
  (2) the statistics file

Start it with:

• sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/activeAppTracker.plist

Stop it with:

• sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/activeAppTracker.plist