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Vigil is a privacy-first desktop productivity tracker — automatic app tracking, focus sessions with auto-blocking, a live "Brain Graph" of your attention, and opt-in AI insights using your own API key. Everything stays local. No account, no cloud, no telemetry.
I built Vigil because I wanted a perfect time-tracker for me. Vigil stores everything in a local SQLite database, nothing leaves your machine unless you turn on a feature that explicitly does (like AI Insights, and even then it's your own API key and only ever aggregate stats, never raw activity).
Some features are:
A live, draggable, zoomable force-directed graph of which apps you jump between and how often, similar to Obsidian's graph view but for your attention instead of your notes.
Focus Sessions: start a timer and Vigil automatically blocks distraction apps for you, no rule setup needed.
A local REST API + MCP server, so if you use Claude or another AI agent,it can read your stats and manage your reminders/to-dos/block rules directly — genuinely useful, not just a gimmick.
Fully open source (MIT), self-host it, read every line, fork it.
Would love your feedback, especially on what's missing before this feels "done" for your own workflow.
How does the auto-blocking actually know what to block during focus sessions, and can I customize the list per project or is it one global blocklist?
finally tried a tracker that doesn't feel creepy, the brain graph actually showed me how scattered my mornings are and now i can't unsee it
About Vigil - OpenSourced TimeTracking App on Product Hunt
“The self-hosted time tracker I always wanted”
Vigil - OpenSourced TimeTracking App was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 4 upvotes and 4 comments, placing #142 on the daily leaderboard. Vigil is a privacy-first desktop productivity tracker — automatic app tracking, focus sessions with auto-blocking, a live "Brain Graph" of your attention, and opt-in AI insights using your own API key. Everything stays local. No account, no cloud, no telemetry.
Vigil - OpenSourced TimeTracking App was featured in Productivity (656k followers), Open Source (68.6k followers), Time Tracking (11.8k followers) and GitHub (41.3k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 186.9k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
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