Some Reflections After a Month of Tracking My Own Online Activity

Page Activity Since 8:38 PM on February 22nd, I’ve been recording all my browsing activity in a database I manage using a custom-built browser extension and a wrapper around @rosskevin/ifvisible. The result? I now have a clear picture of just how much time I’ve spent on the web this past month. And, well… I spend a lot of time reading email. Go figure. Here are the top 12 domains I visited, ranked by active time spent on them: mail.google.com linkedin.com feedbin.com github.com local-files (file://, aka, me hacking old-school serverless) youtube.com mcwhittemore.com (turns out I spent a lot of time on my own site...) chatgpt.com en.wikipedia.org docs.google.com news.ycombinator.com www.themag.co.uk Looking over this list, I’m surprised at how different my actual internet usage is from how I thought I used the internet. Gmail, LinkedIn, and Feedbin all make sense near the top (though I’m surprised LinkedIn is so high), but I didn’t expect GitHub, ChatGPT, and Google Docs ... Read full article.