Emacs plugin

How much time do you spend in Emacs? Get the WakaTime plugin and track your programming in real-time.

INSTALL THE PLUGIN FOR EMACS
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Measure Your Coding

The WakaTime plugin for Emacs gives you real-time metrics per project, file, branch, commit, feature, operating system, language, etc.

Gain Insights

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Improve Your Productivity

Compete with your friends on private leaderboards, improve your daily coding average, and check your rank against other WakaTime users.

Customer Testimonials

WakaTime gives us insight into our development process and increases our impact as a team.
Scott Milliken
CEO of Mixrank
I use WakaTime to measure and improve my focus. Reading Deep Work by Cal Newport made me realize the importance of deep sustained focus. WakaTime seamlessly helps me achieve this goal, and I strongly recommend it.
Kirubakaran
Software Consultant
I love the insight WakaTime gives me for finding bottle-necks in my projects, I know exactly where my time went down to the file.
TJ Holowaychuk
Creator of Express.js

Open Source

We value Open Source and make a point to release all our plugins on GitHub under a BSD License.

Install the plugin

  1. Follow the instructions under "installing" on MELPA's getting started page.

  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 with sudo pip install wakatime or by downloading the GitHub repo.

  9. Find the path to wakatime cli with which wakatime or use the absolute path to wakatime/cli.py inside the GitHub repo you downloaded.

  10. Enter the path to wakatime cli, then press Enter.

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

  12. Use Emacs with wakatime-mode turned on and your time will be tracked for you automatically.

  13. Visit https://wakatime.com/dashboard to see your coding activity.

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