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We need to store data very efficiently.
All strings should be stored only once.

One solution is to create a single file with strings. Each string has a number index assigned.

$1=ActivityStarted
$2=ActivityEnded
$3=C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe
$4=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe

Then day log files will use these variables when storing logs.

1;$1;$3;New Tab;2017-07-11_14:44:49
1;$2;$3;New Tab;2017-07-11_14:44:55

Typically, windows is created and shown with empty title.
Then title is set, but event is to fired, and when active windows is changed, event is logged with title (instead of empty one).

So, fix events with empty title for windows shown before setting title.

Use append-line only file format for performance reasons.
Each event uses single line and semicolon separated values.

https://github.com/justcoding121/Windows-User-Action-Hook

Also, show a progress bar when percentual value.

Foreground process changed
Another process has raised to foreground. We need an id of a previous process and the current one.

Window title changed
Typical for web browser. User navigates to a new page, process id is still the same, but title has changed. This can be change in the activity category.

• Select date from and to.
• Display list of applications.
• Under each application display list of window titles.

User should be able to define rules based on ApplicationPath and WindowTitle to categorize acitivity.

When a category more rules it is easy to exceed reasonable height.

Base events:

ActivityStarted

• ApplicationPath
• WindowTitle
• StartedAt

ActivityEnded

• ApplicationPath
• WindowTitle
• EndedAt

We should periodically save current time stamp for cases when the application crashes (or is not turned off correctly).

After next startup we should generate appropriate ActivityEnded event.