Hi everyone!

I'm trying to get a much clearer picture of how I spend my time on digital devices.

I'd like to track my daily usage in hours and minutes, ideally with detailed statistics broken down by application, device and activity.

My devices and requirements:

• Windows PC: Time spent using each application, browser and website, with daily, weekly and monthly reports.

• Android phone: Screen time per application, daily usage and historical statistics.

• Amazon Alexa / Echo: Total music and podcast playback time per day (ideally accurate to the minute).

• Smart TV: Total daily viewing time and, ideally, usage time per individual streaming app.

What I'm looking for:

1. A dashboard that combines as many devices as possible.

2. Automatic tracking rather than manual time logging.

3. Daily, weekly and monthly statistics, including total hours.

4. Detailed historical reports and data export (CSV would be great).

5. Privacy-friendly options, preferably with local data storage.

6. The ability to gradually reduce usage once I understand my habits.

I've come across ActivityWatch, ManicTime and StayFree, but I'm not sure which combination would work best.

Does anyone have experience tracking all these devices, especially Alexa music playback and Smart TV usage?

I'd appreciate any recommendations, technical solutions or personal experiences.

Thanks!

I wanted my weather, music, tasks, and other daily essentials always visible without constantly switching apps. So I built Life HUD, a sleek, customizable widget dashboard that docks to the top or side of your screen.

Think iPhone-style widgets for Windows, but always visible, with your apps automatically resizing around them. No bulky Electron app running in the background.

Under the hood:

• Rust + Slint, native Win32/WinRT integration

• Single executable, minimal resource usage (~0.5% CPU core)

• Modular architecture for adding new widgets

Widgets: Weather, Spotify/media, tasks, notes, Reddit, YouTube, news, sports, stocks, and search.

Free, open source (MIT). No accounts or telemetry.

GitHub: https://github.com/George-API/LifeHUD

Feedback and contributions welcome.

We repost from foss. Hope you’ll enjoy.

The goal is to convert any desktop device into a homeserver while making sure that the process is super simple and intuitive even for non-tech savvy people and must not require any money to operate.

You'll just have to connect once using qr code/6-digits code and itll stay. Now you can send files, choose folders(whatsapp,photos,etc) to backup, restore the selected folders, access pc file system, stream videos, view photos, rename, edit, etc from anywhere.

However, connection behind CG-NAT is very tricky, ive find solutions to make it reliable i.e using drive as tunnel(we can replace it with nextcloud, VPS, relays, etc), nostr relays and tor servers. But dont worry, my every decision is taken keeping privacy and encryption in mind.

Now, the application is ready and functioning but i do not have the resources to conduct testing for every scenerio. So if you really find the application useful or interesting, you can text me or mail me and i can add u as beta user and i can perfect the application in next few weeks and we can even discuss potential upgrades.

my email: [email protected]

https://github.com/saqibsiddiq/QurbSpace

My personal list:

- Excel
- Visi-Calc
- Photoshop
- Adobe Reader
- Word Perfect

I recreated Window's 11 Paint, with the same UI & functionality.

When I moved to Linux, I needed an app like Paint the most, because of its ability to get the job done quick & not get in your way. It being lightweight was also very useful.

Repo: https://github.com/nilpotent7/Paintly

Just wanted to share a neat open-source tool I stumbled upon on GitHub called FreePartition. (Disclaimer: I am not the developer, just sharing it because it's way too good to stay under the radar).

Having proper standalone apps for email and calendar makes a huge difference to my daily workflow. On macOS, Apple’s built-in Mail and Calendar handle Google accounts seamlessly. On Windows, the options feel frustrating—New Outlook looks great, but its Google support is rough, while Thunderbird is super dependable yet looks way too dated.

So I ended up building my own lightweight desktop wrappers for Gmail and Google Calendar with Tauri 2.

Key features:

Compatibility & scope: Built and tested exclusively on Windows 11. I originally put these together just to have a cozy, no-nonsense setup for myself, so they are intentionally lightweight—but I’d gladly take feedback or feature suggestions!

Get them on GitHub (source code, .exe**, and installers):** https://github.com/developer88/desktop-mail-and-calendar/releases

Disclaimer: Not affiliated with Google.

Safari profiles keep cookies apart, but every profile still goes out through the same IP, so sites see one person. And every antidetect browser I tried was Chrome pretending to be something else.

So I built an account manager on top of real Safari. Every profile is its own Safari with its own cookies, its own proxy and its own history. You can run dozens side by side and stay logged in to all of them.

What it does:

- Each proxy is checked before a profile opens, DNS and WebRTC go through it too

- If the IP changes or the proxy dies, that profile stops instead of falling back to your home connection

- An IP log shows every address an account has ever been seen from

- Folders, tags and statuses for hundreds of accounts

- Hand a profile to someone else or move it to another Mac and stay logged in

- Free proxies built in, so you can try it without buying any

Mac only: stealthpilot.app/software

I'd really like feedback: what's missing for you, and what you use for multiple accounts now.

I've been building Jumpman, an MIT-licensed batch photo editor, and I'm looking for feedback from people who use FOSS photo tools day to day.

Most editors are built around one photo at a time, but shoots come in sets: a trip, a wedding, a product shoot. Jumpman treats the batch as the unit of work. Select a group of photos, make one edit, and it applies to all of them. Then switch to individual mode to fix the odd shot out.

Everything runs on your device. Editing happens in WebGL2 in any modern browser (Linux, macOS, Windows, Android, iOS), and there's no backend at all: no uploads, no account, no tracking. It works offline as a PWA, there's an Android APK, and you can self-host it as a static site.

What it does

- Layers: Adjust, LUT, Curves, 8-band HSL and split toning, each with its own opacity

- Auto-match to even out exposure and white balance across mixed lighting

- Masks: linear, radial, luminance and color range, plus heuristic sky/subject masks

- Bulk crop to common ratios (1:1, 4:5, 9:16 and so on)

- Batch export to JPEG, PNG, WebP or AVIF with watermarks, filename patterns and ZIP output

- Non-destructive history with per-batch undo/redo and one-step revert to originals

- 15 built-in LUTs plus .cube import/export

- Lightroom-compatible XMP import/export and Capture One style import, so your presets aren't stuck anywhere

Current limits (it's v0.1.1)

- RAW files (DNG, CR2/CR3, NEF, ARW, RAF, ORF, RW2 and more) open through their embedded full-size preview, not a real raw decode. Full decoding with LibRaw compiled to WebAssembly is on the roadmap.

- No brush masks yet.

- The "smart" bits (smart selection, scene-aware auto edit, edit by text description) are rule-based and run locally. Nothing leaves the browser.

So it's not trying to replace darktable or RawTherapee. For now I think it fits best after them: develop your raws as usual, export, then use Jumpman to make the whole set consistent and batch-export versions for the web.

Links

- Try it without installing: https://fzn0x.github.io/jumpman/app/

- Project site: https://fzn0x.github.io/jumpman/

- Source (MIT): https://github.com/fzn0x/jumpman

- Android APK and self-host zip: https://github.com/fzn0x/jumpman/releases/latest

What would it need to earn a spot in your workflow? I'm especially curious whether auto-match holds up on your mixed-light sets and what's missing from export.

Issues, PRs and presets for the community gallery are all welcome.

Looking for comments and feedback.

Any ideas or features are welcomed.

Been annoyed for a while at how clunky it is to just send a file from my laptop to my phone, so I built ByteDrop to fix that for myself.

You run it on your PC, it shows a QR code, you scan it with your phone’s browser (or just open the link on another PC) and you’re connected — drag and drop files either way, clipboard syncs too. Works over your home wifi, Windows’ mobile hotspot, or a public link if you’re not even on the same network.

No accounts, nothing to install on the other device, totally free and open source.

GitHub if you want to try it: https://github.com/HusseinWalid48/ByteDrop

Hi, I'm Davut. I built this, so this is a maker post and I'm biased.

I kept running into the same thing: a stream, a video or a call in a language I don't speak, and subtitles that pull my eyes off the screen. So I built an app that speaks the translation instead.

Voxis listens to whatever your PC is playing and says it again in your language a few seconds behind the speaker. The original sound keeps playing quietly underneath and you get live captions next to it. It works for videos, streams and games. There is also a Meeting mode for calls that runs in both directions: you hear the other person in your language and they hear you in theirs. No bot joins the call.

Things you should know before trying it:

- Listening needs no virtual cable or driver. Meeting mode is different: on Windows the outgoing voice needs a free virtual audio cable, and setting it up takes a few minutes.

- It translates 79 languages. The free daily minutes speak 35 of them and show the rest as captions.

- Translation runs in the cloud, so it needs an internet connection, and it is always a few seconds behind. It is machine translation. Don't rely on it for anything legal or medical.

Cost: a new account gets 15 free minutes of the better voice once, then 10 free minutes every day in Video & Game mode in the Windows app. Past that it is paid: minute packs from $6.99 for 80 minutes that never expire, or monthly plans from $9.99.

It is on the Microsoft Store, and there are Mac and Linux versions and a Chrome extension too: https://voxislive.com

I'd like to know which language pairs sound right to you and where it breaks. I'll answer here.

If you run several Claude Code or Codex sessions, one of them is usually stuck on a permission prompt in a window you're not looking at. Openbar puts all of them in the MacBook notch (or a small island at the top of the screen on Windows and Linux): you see which one is working and which one needs you, read the diff and allow it without switching windows.

It also handles remote sessions over SSH, gives each session its own git worktree, and now picks up Pi, Mistral Vibe and Devin CLI too. GPL-3.0, no account, no telemetry.

Source and downloads: https://github.com/MF-DEEV/Openbar

Hi everyone,

If you use a DualSense on PC, you've probably run into games where you need a USB cable to get the full haptic feedback and adaptive trigger effects.

I built DS5 Untethered to use those effects over Bluetooth. The game sees a wired DualSense, and the app sends the game's own effects to the actual controller wirelessly. It works with your PC's built-in Bluetooth or a USB Bluetooth adapter.

For example, I used it with God of War Ragnarök: both haptic feedback and adaptive triggers worked wirelessly.

For games without native DualSense support, you can create your own adaptive trigger profiles and turn game audio into haptic feedback.

It also has per-game profiles, button remapping, gyro and a mouse mode.

It's free and open source, and will stay that way.

Source: https://github.com/Midzer00/ds5-untethered

Download: https://github.com/Midzer00/ds5-untethered/releases/latest

If you find it useful and want to support the project, you can star the repo on GitHub.

Happy to answer questions.

Demo video: https://www.reddit.com/r/Dualsense/comments/1xvzirq/i_made_a_free_opensource_app_for_wireless/

Feel free to try it, its freee. Feedbacks would be appreciated thanks guys.

Hey everyone!

I've been working on NumDeck, a small Windows app that turns an ordinary external USB numpad into a customizable Stream Deck-style controller.

I've just pushed a pretty big update, with several improvements:

What's new?

• 6 Ready-to-Use Profiles – General, Gaming, Coding, Streaming, Editing and Productivity.

• Custom App Icons – Recognizable icons for apps and websites, plus support for your own icons.

• System Tray Support – Keep NumDeck running in the background and quickly access it from the tray.

• Start with Windows – Launch NumDeck automatically when Windows starts.

• Copy & Paste Keys – Easily duplicate configured keys between buttons.

There are also plenty of smaller improvements and fixes.

The goal is to make a regular numpad much more useful without needing to buy a dedicated Stream Deck.

Download / Project:
https://github.com/Naveen-io/NumDeck

It's free to try. I'd genuinely appreciate feedback, suggestions, or ideas for what I should improve next!

Thanks for checking it out.