Memacs VS aw-watcher-window

Might look into some of the tools like novoids Memacs. Notion here is to build tools that push feeds, history data, into Emacs. Using org in your use case with the Khoj tool, could be the "glue" you need to tie it all together. https://github.com/novoid/Memacs#readme.

See the whitepaper, called "What really happened on September 15th 2008? Getting The Most from Your Personal Information with Memacs"[2].

This project is now a little bit dead, but the concept of private data fusion was fantastic, and transformed my view of calendars.

Agree that calendars are a little underused in that way, and would love to see more work towards that private calendar data usage.

[1]: https://github.com/novoid/Memacs

Another method is used via Memacs filename module: it generates a text file with all files that start with a date- or time-stamp. This file can then be used for all sorts of workflows for retrieving files. For example, this is how I include images in my blog using lazyblorg and its "Smart tsfile Image File Search".

Renaming files isn't an issue any more once you've started using file file referencing methods that are not prone to changed folder paths (alternative method) or even the basic file name (by using the unchanged first part of the file name as long as it is unique among all indexed files). This way, I really don't care about broken links any more because I don´t get them. But you don't get that freedom with most PIM tools except mine, I'm afraid.

Yes. AFAIK, it is exactly how Karl Voit uses his file tags. And a lot more: https://github.com/novoid/Memacs

Memacs - a framework for integrating various data sources into Org-mode

https://github.com/novoid/Memacs sounds like it might be somewhat related to your goal of making a timeline of your activity.

Back to the original question. In order to get as much content as possible into a common format to be displayed in a common temporal view, I've created a framework that consists of some general functionality and a set of modules that deal with different input sources and formats. This project is called Memacs. You can also read a whitepaper about it.

My observation in the last few years here seem to indicate that - not many Emacs users are necessarily into Org mode and this kind of data curation, or atleast that few have very elaborate setups that they have shared. Here's some serious inspiration: https://beepb00p.xyz/myinfra.html, and AFAIK the most comprehensive example out there. For example, there's the Promnesia package by the same author (https://github.com/karlicoss/promnesia) which I used for awhile and its cool ! There's also Karl Voit's Memacs https://github.com/novoid/Memacs/ (which appears mentioned in the previous link).

The conflict probably stems from the Asahi leader having caught a bad case of Wayland Derangement Syndrome[0]. This case is particularly bad because his distro aims to give Apple hardware users FREEDOM to use an open source distro. Yet he has nothing but contempt and anger for anyone that wants freedom to use Linux the way they want, they way it was intented. E.g. allowing software to control other software, rather than being sandboxed into discreet, tightly controlled "apps". God forbid, anyone should need cross-application monitoring or time-tracking.

[0] https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/110354541574112092

https://help.rescuetime.com/article/117-common-linux-issues

https://github.com/ActivityWatch/aw-watcher-window/issues/18

We have the same issue for ActivityWatch, see: https://github.com/ActivityWatch/aw-watcher-window/issues/18

Btw I just found this thread, which mentions the wlr-foreign-toplevel-management protocol I meant in my previous comment and also that they found some Gnome-specific solution. I could imagine they’d just write a Gnome extensions which provides all the data they want.