Your coding history, automatically organized into a searchable timeline.

Ever finish a week of work and have no idea what you actually did? Devlog watches you code — file edits, commits, branches, debug sessions, terminal commands, package installs — and quietly turns it into a dashboard you can actually look back on. No timers to start, no logs to write. Just open VS Code and code like normal.

Why Devlog

Answer "what was I doing last Tuesday?" in seconds instead of digging through git log.
Remember your wins. Devlog turns scattered activity into a story you can point to at review time, in a standup, or on your resume.
100% local, 100% private. Everything is stored in a SQLite file on your machine. Nothing is ever sent over the network. Your coding history is yours.
Zero effort. No start/stop buttons, no manual tagging, no tracking rituals. If you forget Devlog is even installed, it's working correctly.

Features

📊 Dashboard — An at-a-glance view of your recent activity: what you worked on, how much, and what kind of work it was (feature dev, bug fixing, debugging, refactoring, testing, docs, code review).

🗓 Calendar — A heatmap of your coding activity by day, so you can spot patterns and jump straight into any day's details.

📁 Project view — Drill into a single project to see its full history, tech stack, and timeline in isolation.

🕒 Timeline — A day-by-day, human-readable log of everything you did — commits, files touched, sessions, terminal activity — automatically rolled up instead of dumped as raw noise.

🔍 Search — Full-text search across your entire history. Find that commit, that file, or that terminal command from three weeks ago.

🧠 Smart session detection — Devlog knows the difference between active coding and idle time, and automatically classifies each session by the kind of work it represents.

Getting started

Install Devlog from the VS Code Marketplace.
Keep coding — Devlog starts capturing automatically in the background.
Open the dashboard anytime with Devlog: Open Dashboard from the Command Palette (Cmd+Shift+P / Ctrl+Shift+P).

That's it. There's no setup, no account, and no configuration required to get value on day one.

Use cases

Standup recall — "What did I do yesterday?" answered without guesswork.
Performance review prep — Pull together months of real work when it's time to write your self-review.
Context switching — Jump back into a project after weeks away and instantly see where you left off.
Time estimation — See how long things like migrations or bug fixes actually took, based on real activity, not memory.

Privacy

Devlog is local-first by design. Your activity data lives in a SQLite database in VS Code's local storage on your machine — it is never uploaded anywhere. Any AI-generated summaries run against a local Ollama instance if you have one installed; if not, Devlog falls back to a simple, deterministic summary. Either way, nothing leaves your computer unless you explicitly choose to sync it (see below).

Settings

Setting	Description	Default
`devlog.idleTimeoutMinutes`	Minutes of inactivity before a coding session is considered ended	`10`
`devlog.careerJournal.apiUrl`	(Optional) Base URL for syncing a day's activity to a Career Journal deployment, if you use one	—