Program to keep track of reading time

[test]

Hello!
I have been trying to keep a tab on the time i spend doing a particular activity on my computer, eg: studying.

Initial approach:
An interactive program that required me to specifically tell it what i am reading, and then it would start a timer and then i would have to tell it when i am done so that it could stop the timer and update an excel sheet. That however proved to be impractical, as i found myself too indisciplined to do the above steps.
The program remained unused.

Current approach:
A program that is auto-run on start-up, which then periodically checks if onenote is running (from where i read). Then it just keeps track of that time.

However, the current approach loses data such as what topic i am reading and for how much time, which can be helpful in planning my further schedule.

Is there a way in which using the current approach, i can directly get the names of active sections and pages from onenote??

Any help will be highly appreciated.

[micseydel]

I'm not especially familiar with OneNote, but you might find their API useful: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/i...th-onenote

[test]

Thanks for your reply @micseydel

I am aware of the Graphs API, but I don't think it is suitable for my purpose. I need a way to auto-detect which page is being read when one-note is open. I was wondering if such a thing is possible using psutil module (say, for eg., to get the name of the video file VLC player is playing when it is active).

Thanks for ur time :)

[snippsat]

I was wondering if such a thing is possible using psutil module (say, for eg., to get the name of the video file VLC player is playing when it is active).

psutil can find if a process is running.
The problem is finding out what the process dos internally as eg OneNote may not give any info to stdout/stdin that can be captured.
VLC is open source,so here can people hack into the running process and try to get some info.
Now Playing is see that used a Lua script to get info what's playing live from the running VLC process.