Guides by WakaTime

What is WakaTime?

An overview of WakaTime, the fitbit for programmers.

Installing WakaTime

Setting up WakaTime for automatic time tracking and programming metrics. This example shows installing WakaTime for VS Code, and breifly goes over the desktop app, browser extension, and Google Calendar integration.

Installing the WakaTIme Desktop App or Browser Extension

Tracking your time without an IDE extension.

Onboarding your team

Set up a WakaTime dashboard for your dev team.

File expert feature

See the currently focused file’s expert (the person who spent the most time coding in the file) in your vscode status bar.

Team dashboard alerts

Get daily or weekly alerts for devs on your team dashboard.

Manually tracking time

Using the WakaTime website, you can manually add time to your dashboard.

Editing time on your dashboard

Using the WakaTime durations chart, you can edit the project, language, or category of your tracked time.

Keystroke Timeout Preference

See the effect of your Keystroke Timeout Preference on your total reported time.

Invoicing with WakaTime

Automatically fill in and generate your invoices with WakaTime.