WakaTime for Emacs Emacs

The open source plugin for productivity metrics, goals, leaderboards, and automatic time tracking.

Installing

  1. Follow the instructions under "installing" on MELPA's getting started page. (Doom users see these instructions instead)

  2. Restart Emacs, to make it reloads your init file.

  3. Run M-x package-list-packages.

  4. Find the wakatime-mode package in the list of packages, and move the cursor there.

  5. Press i to mark the package for installation.

  6. Press x to execute the commands and install the marked wakatime-mode package.

  7. Enter your API Key, then press Enter.

  8. Install [wakatime-cli](https://github.com/wakatime/wakatime-cli) python3 -c "$(wget -q -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wakatime/vim-wakatime/master/scripts/install_cli.py)".

  9. Enter ~/.wakatime/wakatime-cli as the path to wakatime-cli, then press Enter.

  10. Add (global-wakatime-mode) to your init.el file, then restart Emacs.

  11. Use Emacs with wakatime-mode turned on and your stats will automatically show on your https://wakatime.com/dashboard.

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