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Why I Built Check me Up: A Local-First Focus & Distraction Daemon
Tracking active windows, idle walk-away time, and weekly productivity directly from a lightweight background daemon without cloud telemetry.
Aug 20265 min read
#JavaScript#Daemon#Electron#SQLite#Local-First

Observability for Your Own Focus
Most time trackers either force you to manually start timers all day or stream your window titles to a remote server.
I built Check me Up to be a quiet, local-first companion: - A small background daemon watches the currently focused window and detects idle time. - Everything is stored locally on your machine. - Whenever you ask for it, the dashboard renders your active session and a Weekly Summary showing whether your week was genuinely productive.
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Check me Up
Local-first distraction and focus tracker for your terminal & desktop.