Thyme helper scripts. I used dashes instead of slashes in filenames. Don't forget to create ~/logs/

.config-systemd-user-thyme.service

# https://about.sourcegraph.com/blog/thyme-a-simple-cli-to-measure-human-time-and-focus/
# https://github.com/sourcegraph/thyme

[Unit]
Description=Call thyme to save windows usage to json for statistics

[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/home/shibbiry/go/bin/thyme track -o /home/shibbiry/logs/thyme.json
# if thyme has not finished in 5 seconds, consider it failed and kill it
TimeoutStartSec=5

.config-systemd-user-thyme.timer

[Unit]
Description=Run thyme periodically
Requires=thyme.service

[Timer]
OnUnitActiveSec=30
OnBootSec=100ms

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target


# don't forget to do systemctl --user enable thyme.timer

bin-thyme_extract.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import click
import logging
import click_log
import datetime as dt
import re
import json

logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
click_log.basic_config(logger)

def is_date(string):
    return re.match(r"^\d\d\d\d-\d\d-\d\d$", string) is not None

def is_datetime(string):
    return re.match(r"^\d\d\d\d-\d\d-\d\dT\d\d:\d\d$", string) is not None

def read_dt(string):
    if is_date(string):
        ts =  dt.datetime.strptime(  
            string, "%Y-%m-%d"
        )
        return ts
    elif is_datetime(string):
        return dt.datetime.strptime(
            string, "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M"
        )
    raise ValueError("'{0} is not a valid date or datetime string".format(string))


ALWAYS_ON_WINDOWS = frozenset(["Desktop — Plasma", "Plasma"])
def remove_always_on(record):
    """filter out KDE always-on windows"""
    good_windows = [
        window for window in record["Windows"]
        if window["Name"] not in ALWAYS_ON_WINDOWS
    ]
    bad_window_ids = frozenset([
        window["ID"] for window in record["Windows"]
        if window["Name"] in ALWAYS_ON_WINDOWS
    ])

    new_record = {
        "Windows": good_windows,
        "Visible": [id_ for id_ in record["Visible"] if id_ not in bad_window_ids]
    }
    for key in record.keys():
        if key not in new_record:
            new_record[key] = record[key]
    return new_record


@click.command(help=__doc__)
@click_log.simple_verbosity_option(logger)
@click.option("-s", "--start", type=str)
@click.option("-e", "--end", type=str)
@click.argument("input", type=click.File(encoding="utf-8"))
@click.argument("output", type=click.File(mode="w", encoding="utf-8"))
def main(start, end, input, output):
    records = json.load(input)
    if start is not None:
        start = read_dt(start)
        logger.debug("Writing entries from {0}".format(start))
    if end is not None:
        end = read_dt(end)
        if end.hour == 0 and end.minute == 0:
            end += dt.timedelta(days=1)
            end -= dt.timedelta(seconds=1)
        logger.debug("Writing entries to {0}".format(end))

    def filter(item):
        match = re.match(r"(.*)\.\d+", item["Time"])
        string = "".join(match.groups())
        ts = dt.datetime.strptime(string, "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S")
        if start is not None and ts < start:
            return False
        if end is not None and ts > end:
            return False
        return True

    filtered_records = {
        "Snapshots": [
            remove_always_on(item) for item in records["Snapshots"]
            if filter(item)
        ]
    }

    logger.debug(
        "Writing {0} records".format(len(filtered_records["Snapshots"]))
    )    
    json.dump(filtered_records, output)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

bin-thyme_show.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euo pipefail
IFS=$'\n\t'

TEMP_JSON=`mktemp`
TEMP_HTML=`mktemp --suffix=.html`

thyme_extract.py "$@" --verbosity DEBUG \
                 "$HOME/logs/thyme.json" "$TEMP_JSON"
thyme show -i "$TEMP_JSON" --what=stats > "$TEMP_HTML"
xdg-open "$TEMP_HTML"

gistfile1.txt

$ cat ~/.config/plasma-workspace/env/set_xorg_env_in_systemd.sh
#!/bin/sh

systemctl --user import-environment DISPLAY XAUTHORITY

if which dbus-update-activation-environment >/dev/null 2>&1; then
        dbus-update-activation-environment DISPLAY XAUTHORITY
fi