NSALogger.exe

[kung foo man]

First I had the idea of a webcam watching myself, analyzing my behaviour, which would then eventually scream "stop procrastinating" at me, but I realized it should way simpler to detect procrastination without an AI + webcam (lol).

Kinda simply by checking the foreground window on Windows Desktop, writing the title of the active window it to a file and then let a process like B3 parse/analyze the output:

01.04.2016 05:56:45:182 window=0000000000550A72 process_id= 3292 processImageName=C:\Users\lama1_000\Desktop\ActiveWindowLogger\activeWindowLogger.exe title=C:\Users\lama1_000\Desktop\ActiveWindowLogger\activeWindowLogger.exe
01.04.2016 05:57:43:285 window=0000000000060758 process_id= 4156 processImageName=C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe title=C:\Users\lama1_000\Desktop\ActiveWindowLogger\ActiveWindowLogger.cpp - Notepad++
01.04.2016 05:57:46:111 window=0000000000060758 process_id= 4156 processImageName=C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe title=C:\Users\lama1_000\Desktop\ActiveWindowLogger\build.bat - Notepad++
01.04.2016 05:57:47:374 window=0000000000060758 process_id= 4156 processImageName=C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe title=C:\Users\lama1_000\Desktop\SoftEngineJSPart2\index.html - Notepad++
01.04.2016 05:57:47:778 window=0000000000060758 process_id= 4156 processImageName=C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe title=C:\Users\lama1_000\Desktop\SoftEngineJSPart2\SoftEngine.js - Notepad++
01.04.2016 05:57:50:050 window=0000000000060758 process_id= 4156 processImageName=C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe title=C:\Users\lama1_000\Desktop\SoftEngineJSPart2\babylon.math.js - Notepad++
01.04.2016 05:57:51:212 window=0000000000550A72 process_id= 3292 processImageName=C:\Users\lama1_000\Desktop\ActiveWindowLogger\activeWindowLogger.exe title=C:\Users\lama1_000\Desktop\ActiveWindowLogger\activeWindowLogger.exe
01.04.2016 05:57:59:420 window=000000000006097C process_id= 6980 processImageName=C:\Users\LAMA1_~1\AppData\Local\Temp\Process Explorer64.exe title=Process Explorer - Sysinternals: www.sysinternals.com [ADMIN\lama1_000]
01.04.2016 05:58:06:575 window=00000000002F09E0 process_id= 6980 processImageName=C:\Users\LAMA1_~1\AppData\Local\Temp\Process Explorer64.exe title=i_view32.exe:108 Properties
01.04.2016 05:58:15:898 window=000000000006097C process_id= 6980 processImageName=C:\Users\LAMA1_~1\AppData\Local\Temp\Process Explorer64.exe title=Process Explorer - Sysinternals: www.sysinternals.com [ADMIN\lama1_000]
01.04.2016 05:58:20:388 window=0000000000030254 process_id= 6004 processImageName=C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe title=lied_17.mp3 - Mozilla Firefox
01.04.2016 05:58:22:055 window=000000000006097C process_id= 6980 processImageName=C:\Users\LAMA1_~1\AppData\Local\Temp\Process Explorer64.exe title=Process Explorer - Sysinternals: www.sysinternals.com [ADMIN\lama1_000]
01.04.2016 05:58:27:651 window=0000000000030254 process_id= 6004 processImageName=C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe title=lied_17.mp3 - Mozilla Firefox
01.04.2016 05:58:30:731 window=0000000000030254 process_id= 6004 processImageName=C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe title=A Sci-Fi Short Film HD: "At the End" - by Jason J. Whitmore - YouTube - Mozilla Firefox
01.04.2016 05:58:38:049 window=0000000000010106 process_id= 1056 processImageName=C:\Windows\explorer.exe title=
01.04.2016 05:58:38:151 window=0000000000070710 process_id= 1056 processImageName=C:\Windows\explorer.exe title=ActiveWindowLogger
01.04.2016 05:58:39:060 window=0000000000010106 process_id= 1056 processImageName=C:\Windows\explorer.exe title=
01.04.2016 05:58:40:924 window=000000000004007E process_id= 1056 processImageName=C:\Windows\explorer.exe title=Dieser PC
01.04.2016 05:58:42:031 window=0000000000550A72 process_id= 3292 processImageName=C:\Users\lama1_000\Desktop\ActiveWindowLogger\activeWindowLogger.exe title=C:\Users\lama1_000\Desktop\ActiveWindowLogger\activeWindowLogger.exe

It could even make statistics like "Your day on PC: 40% Hackernews, 30% Steam Chat, 10% 4Chan, 10% Visual Studio, ...". Which would show on a glance how much time you wasted. I don't know about you all, but I mostly just can't get shit done.

So I started just wrote a bit Win32 code to log the window titles, which is only about 50 lines of C code:

		#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <windows.h>
#include <Winternl.h>
#define SLEEPTIME 50 // in milliseconds

// my gcc didn't know about QueryFullProcessImageNameA(), prolly remove in some other gcc versions or Visual Studio
extern "C" WINBASEAPI BOOL WINAPI QueryFullProcessImageNameA(HANDLE hProcess, DWORD dwFlags, LPSTR lpExeName, PDWORD lpdwSize);

int main() {
    HWND window, oldWindow;
    char title[4096], oldTitle[sizeof(title)]; // whatever the fuckin limit is, i dont wanna hit one
    SYSTEMTIME lt;
    int first = 1;
    while (1) {
        window = GetForegroundWindow();
        if (window == NULL) { // happens when focusing the taskbar
            Sleep(SLEEPTIME);
            continue;
        }
        int ret = GetWindowText(window, title, sizeof(title));
        if (ret == 0) {
            //printf("NO WINDOW TEXT!\n");
        }
        if ( ! first) { // don't compare against uninitialized oldWindow and oldTitle
            int windowTitleChanged = strcmp(title, oldTitle) != 0;
            int hwndChanged = window != oldWindow;
            //printf("titleChanged = %d hwndChanged  = %d\n", windowTitleChanged, hwndChanged);
            if ( !windowTitleChanged && !hwndChanged ) {
                Sleep(SLEEPTIME);
                continue;
            }
        }
        //HMONITOR monitor = MonitorFromWindow(window, MONITOR_DEFAULTTONULL);
        GetLocalTime(&lt);
        DWORD windowProcessID;
        GetWindowThreadProcessId(window, &windowProcessID);
        HANDLE windowProcess = OpenProcess(PROCESS_QUERY_INFORMATION | PROCESS_VM_READ, FALSE, windowProcessID);
        char processImageName[4096];
        DWORD stringSize = sizeof(processImageName);
        QueryFullProcessImageNameA(windowProcess, 0, processImageName, &stringSize);        
        printf("%.2d.%02d.%02d %02d:%02d:%02d:%03d window=%p process_id=%5d processImageName=%s title=%s\n",
            lt.wDay, lt.wMonth, lt.wYear, lt.wHour, lt.wMinute, lt.wSecond, lt.wMilliseconds,
            window, windowProcessID,
            processImageName,
            title
        );
        strncpy(oldTitle, title, sizeof(title));
        oldWindow = window;
        first = 0;
        Sleep(SLEEPTIME);
    }
} 
	

Compiling: g++ NSALogger.cpp -o NSALogger.exe
pause


Maybe somebody wants to push the idea further, I imagined stuff like:
- if serious procrastination is detected (e.g. playing Agar.io for 2 hours), then firefox.exe will be terminated
- have some computer voice commenting on your interactions, kinda as fun gag
- having a website where this data gets send to, with a search function through the window titles to find ppl to chat with

[Ni3ls]

Oh oh no self control!