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Developers seeking to understand and optimize how they spend their coding time through automatic, AI-driven productivity insights
About FlouState
FlouState is an intelligent focus tracking tool designed for developers that automatically monitors and categorizes coding activity to provide deeper insights into productivity and work patterns. Unlike traditional time trackers that only measure how long you spend coding, FlouState analyzes what type of work you are doing, breaking activity into categories such as creating, exploring, refactoring, and debugging. It runs silently in the background as a VS Code extension, requiring no manual timers or input, and captures context such as projects, Git branches, and files to give a complete view of how time is spent. It transforms raw activity data into meaningful insights through dashboards, file-level analytics, and AI-powered summaries that highlight patterns like peak productivity times or workflow inefficiencies. It also tracks uninterrupted focus sessions, helping developers understand when they achieve deep work and how context switching affects performance.
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