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zieren / wasted-youth-tracker

Limit kids' time on their (Windows) PC and get a summary of the window titles.
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Consider process name as signal #58

Open zieren opened 2 years ago

zieren commented 2 years ago

Sometimes titles alone have limited significance, e.g. "Wir haben ein Update für Sie". It would be nice to know the process name in those cases.

In fact for many cases the process name might be a better signal than the window title. Maybe we could even fetch (or link to) process descriptions from an external site.

A notable exception where the process name is not sufficient are browers and the like. While a browser extension seems feasible for, say, Chrome and Firefox, this approach might not scale.

zieren commented 2 years ago

Maybe add the process name to the activity table together with the title. We could have a flag for REs as to which they apply to. This would increase the workload, but hopefully the number of distinct process names is small. Also, this might be easy to cache.