WakaTime is a productivity & time tracking tool for programmers. Once the WakaTime plugin is installed, you get a dashboard with reports about your programming by time, language, project, and branch.

Heads Up! WakaTime depends on Python being installed to work correctly.

1. Inside MonoDevelop/Xamarin Studio, navigate to Tools -> Add-in Manager

2. Click the Gallery tab, then search for wakatime.

3. Click the Install button and then when add-in installation dialog popups click Install.

4. On MonoDevelop/Xamarin Studio versions prior to 5.10 you might get an error message, just ignore it, it's a Mono.Addin bug, it has been already solved in latest releases.

5. Enter your api key from https://wakatime.com/settings#apikey, then click Apply button.

6. You might have to restart your MonoDevelop/Xamarin Studio

7. Use MonoDevelop/Xamarin Studio like you normally do and your time will be tracked for you automatically.

8. Visit https://wakatime.com to see your logged time.

You can build and install this addin manually. On Linux you can skip the first step.

1. On Mac OS X and Windows you might have to make mdtool globally accessible by..

   • On Mac OS X: ln -sv /usr/bin/mdtool /Applications/Xamarin Studio.app/Contents/MacOS/mdtool
   • On Windows: add %ProgramFiles%"\Xamarin Studio\bin or %ProgramFiles(x86)%"\Xamarin Studio\bin append to PATH environment variable

2. Just open the solution in MonoDevelop/Xamarin Studio and build it using the appropriate configuration (Debug for Linux and Mac and DebugWin32 for Windows).

3. Inside MonoDevelop/Xamarin Studio, navigate to Tools -> Add-in Manager

4. Click the Install from file... button and browse to /path/to/monodevelop-wakatime/bin/Debug or DebugWin32 folder, depending on your OS and install MonoDevelop.WakaTime_x.x.mpack

5. Click the Install button and follow the installation manual above starting from step 4.

• Port WakaTime Cli to C# to avoid installing and running Python

Most of the code has been taken from Visual Studio WakaTime extension originally developed by WakaTime team Hovewer it was made cross-platform and soon will be heavily refactored, including the complete porting of WakaTime Cli from Python to C#