continuedev
Seamless ambient context integration with open source time/attention tracking tools
@context inputs are tedious and explicit
Solution
ActivityWatch team is only starting to look at AI, see their blog post: "Full-Context Tracking: A Double-Edged Sword / Opportunities for AI Applications"
I could see AW replace all the @context / Meilisearch component of continue :-)
Cross-track: https://github.com/ActivityWatch/activitywatch/issues/959
Love this! Here's what I'm thinking:
- Start with a simple context provider, so you could @ aw to explicitly tell Continue to use ActivityWatch as context. This could even go as far as re-updating the context for every input the way we have things currently setup
- I've considered the idea of context providers that are "always there". That way you could specify that every message to Continue should include AW context without having to explicitly say so
- Once the experimental codebase embeddings feature gets further along, I want to open up the embeddings database for other context sources, and ActivityWatch could be one of these: dump recently viewed content into Chroma and similarity search to get it out
I don't think this will go as far as replacing meilisearch for everyone, but it sure sounds like a game changer for someone already using ActivityWatch, or who is willing to adopt
From a quick look, it seems a ContextProvider could use the aw-client Python package to get data from the server - does this seem right, or have you ever used the python package before?
I'm not a python dev, but hey - I got continue and a bunch of AI co-pilots :-)
Their vs-code tracker might need some work though: https://github.com/ActivityWatch/aw-watcher-vscode/issues/12
Sends following data to ActivityWatch:
- current project name
- programming language
- current file name
- current Git branch
This could be super useful as a meta-context kind of "get me back to what I was working on yesterday", since that's the heaviest time sink in this new age of AI, I just can't remember what happened the last time I sat down for a long stretch of time. I need help synthesizing my own past thinking.
Very interesting. A side note here is that we could accomplish some of this by looking at the output of git log