open-tab-tracker 0.0.1

Graphs how many open tabs you have in your browsers.

Open Tab Tracker

This tool tracks the count of open tabs you have, and plots them over time.

When I'm working on a problem, or exploring a new idea, I'll open a new browser window and start searching. I'll discover related ideas that I should look into, new things to learn, and often, more problems to work on. I thought it would be neat to be able to display this data visually.

This is what my open tab chart looked like while I was working on this project. You can see the points in time where I solved a problem I was working on (sharp decrease in open tabs), and the points where I discovered new problems to solve (sharp increase in open tabs).

Installation

This package has not been released anywhere, so you'll have to run it by cloning the git repo:

$ git clone [e-mail]:alichtman/open_tab_tracker.git
$ cd open_tab_tracker
$ pip3 install .
$ open-tab-tracker --install
$ open-tab-tracker --graph

Usage

$ open-tab-tracker --help
Usage: open-tab-tracker [OPTIONS]

  Open Tab Tracker

Options:
  -a, --add-datapoint  Add a datapoint
  -i, --install        Install in crontab to run at startup
  --drop-database      Drop the database
  --graph              Opens the graph in a browser
  --print-db           Print the database
  --uninstall          Uninstall from crontab
  -v, --version        Print the version
  -h, -help, --help    Show this message and exit.

  See the project homepage for more details:
  https://github.com/alichtman/open_tab_tracker

Support

OS	Firefox	Chrome / Chromium	Safari
Linux	:white_check_mark:	:x:	:x:
macOS	:white_check_mark:	:x:	:x:
Windows	:x:	:x:	:x:

Technical Details

• Data is stored in a sqlite3 database at $XDG_DATA_HOME/open_tab_tracker.db.
• Firefox tab counts are derived from your firefox profile session backup recovery files. You can read the implementation details in browsers/firefox.py.