Inspiration
Given the recent move for people in all fields to work from home due to the pandemic, the line between work and leisure has been increasingly blurred. I am sure some of us have noticed that our parents (or ourselves, even) are spending more and more time on work related matter when they should be relaxing or spending time with the family.
Features
To combat this problem, we created an app called “Trackify”. Trackify is an online app that tracks your computer and app usage with a smart companion app. Whenever you are working, the smart companion silently records screen time and app time usage, and the web app displays it in a straightforward manner using graph visualization. You can also set limits for total screen time and individual app usage time, so you can easily see if stayed within your limit. The app is highly customizable, you can add/remove apps which you want to monitored straight from the website, and the companion app will automatically adjust accordingly.
Why we did this
We created this app because we firmly believe that every person should have a balanced work and personal life. We hope this app will help remind people to stop overworking themselves and relax a little sometimes.
Challenges
Integrating a client app with the webapp was definitely a challenge, both in terms of communication and keeping both sides consistent. We also had some challenges with formatting the website, but eventually solved it. Another major challenge was compressing the usage data to store into the database, which made CRUD troublesome.
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