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Wow that's impressive. I've been thinking about doing this too.

How do you ensure that you consistently track? Automated pings? Physical buttons/sensors at your desk or I guess computer uptime maybe.

Other thing is did you have any concerns about making this info public, I guess it's not locating you exactly.

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Author here: Yes, exactly which is why I chose to use Telegram to enter my data. If you go all the way to the bottom of howisFelix.today and check out the "Data Inputs" section I wrote a little about it. Being able to easily answer on whatever device you're on right now makes everything easier

One thing I've thought of is that on android, it's not so hard to get app usage in a custom app, as a proxy for being on the phone. So it could check if you've been on your phone for 15+ minutes and then ping you only then. It would take some app -> server -> telegram app communication

Wonder if you could do it with Flutter. For me it's a bit of an investment to learn Kotlin/Swift just for this. Tried in the past Android is a beast imo but my opinion is low as I'm primarily a web dev.

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