Notepad++ freelancing

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

INSTALL THE PLUGIN FOR NOTEPAD++
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Editors Supported
600+
Languages Detected
712,891
Hours Coded this Week

Measure Your Coding

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

Gain Insights

Spend more time in JavaScript or Python? Your personal dashboard shows the metrics you care about.

Improve Your Productivity

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

I love the insight WakaTime gives me for finding bottle-necks in my projects. With WakaTime I know exactly where my time went down to the file.
TJ Holowaychuk
Creator of Express.js
WakaTime tells our team how much time we are spending working on each feature of a project. The result has been more accurate estimates, and better feedback to designers.
Rob Skidmore
Software engineer,
Grow.com
You can’t improve what you don't measure. I use WakaTime to measure my coding and productivity. I also enjoy competing with my team on our private leaderboard.
Robert Adams
Software engineer,
Lyft

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. Download the latest plugin dll from GitHub.

  2. Save the downloaded .dll to C:\Program Files\Notepad++\plugins

  3. Create an empty allowAppDataPlugins.xml file in your C:\Program Files\Notepad++ directory.

  4. Restart Notepad++.

  5. Enter your API key , then press enter.

  6. Use Notepad++ like normal and your stats will automatically show on your WakaTime Dashboard.

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