A computer application to store & display time i spend doing various activities.

Question

Hi all. I want to make a pc app in which I can store the time I spend daily on various activities. Further, I would also like to add the ability to display the time spent on said activities in graph formats like bar, pie, line etc.
The above can b performed on excel but it turns too tacky if the number of activities I'm tracking is too many.
Which language should I go for to make such app in Windows ?????

Answer 1

You could do it with all languages, but maybe JS and Html/Css would be the quickest way to be able to do graphics... unless you've already skilled in a particular one ;)

Answer 2

@Jan Markus: you could use localStorage to store data, or even database on server side (with firebase, you even don't require server side and database skill)

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... and there's some tricks to handle file writting with JS...

Answer 3

@ Dev Vikram Singh:

As you plan to use Python (I believe it's a good choice), you could handle your data on server side, and create a web app (Html/Css with few JS) wich communicate to server sided Python script (look at Bottle, Flask or Django web frameworks)...

@Jan Markus:

ActiveX/FileSystemObject (Windows/IE only):
http://www.c-point.com/JavaScript/articles/file_access_with_JavaScript.htm

JS libraries to handle file to be downloaded (but only handled on browser side):
https://github.com/eligrey/FileSaver.js
https://github.com/dcneiner/Downloadify

And about file as object urls (used by previous JS libraries):
https://www.nczonline.net/blog/2012/05/31/working-with-files-in-javascript-part-4-object-urls/

Answer 4

about last post of @Jan Markus:
I will never understand why people who thanks me for an answer get more upvotes than the answer itself ^^

@Dev Vikram Singh:
Don't thanks, upvote good answers, and set best answer mark...

Sololearners:
You're wasting mine potential answers by your attitude: now I will again be silent... even if I had some time to lost here, I will rather spend it in real life and mine own coding.

Answer 5

@jan Markus thanks for answering. I will b logging my time intervals manually & feeding it in the app by hand. though I'm also learning python at the moment. so ill go with python with tkinter module

Answer 6

@visph thanks a lot for the help.

Answer 7

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