a fixpoint for your work
anker is a local CLI tool that helps you remember what you actually did — without time tracking, productivity metrics, or background agents.
About this project: anker is built in collaboration with Claude AI as a demonstration of modern AI-assisted development practices. The goal is to explore how AI can accelerate software development while producing genuinely useful tools.
Work happens across multiple git repositories, scattered notes, meetings, and unplanned tasks. At the end of the day, the hard part isn’t always doing the work — it’s explaining and remembering what actually happened.
anker accepts the chaos. You cannot plan everything in advance — production incidents happen, requirements change, bugs emerge. anker helps you reconstruct your workday after the fact, without judgment or optimization.
Most productivity tools focus on measuring time, activities, or output. They ask you to track every minute, optimize every task, and chase efficiency metrics.
anker takes a different approach.
Instead of chasing classic productivity metrics, anker embraces what we call an #AntiProductivity mindset — focusing on understanding what you actually did rather than how many minutes you logged or how much you planned/optimized.
The goal is not to make you faster, but to help you reflect on your work in a human-centric, meaningful way. anker reconstructs your day from the sources of truth you already have (like Git), and turns your work into readable, narrative summaries.
This aligns with the belief that:
- Productivity is not about more.
- It’s about clarity, context and value.
Read more about the AntiProductivity mindset →
- Deferred analysis — work first, summarize later
- Explicit over implicit — nothing is tracked automatically
- Local & transparent — all data stays on your machine
- Text-first — human-readable storage
One-line install (macOS/Linux):
curl -sSL https://charemma.de/anker/install.sh | sh
Or download from GitHub Releases
Or using Go:
go install github.com/charemma/anker@latest
# Add your git repositories (one-time setup)
anker source add git ~/code/my-project
anker source add git .
# Generate a report
anker recap today
anker recap thisweek
anker recap lastmonth
anker recap yesterday --format simple
2026-02-09 (2 activities)
• Fix authentication bug in user service
• Update README with installation instructions
Markdown format includes full git diffs – perfect for AI to understand actual code changes:
# Generate standup notes with code context
anker recap yesterday --format markdown | claude -p "Create standup notes"
# Full pipeline: analyze → summarize → render
anker recap thisweek --format markdown | claude -p "Summarize my week" | glow -p
# Code review with full diffs (markdown format includes all code changes)
anker recap today --format markdown | claude -p "Review these changes and suggest improvements"
See Usage Guide for more examples and format details.
The quality of anker’s output depends on your data sources. The more comprehensive your sources, the better anker can reconstruct your workday.
Currently supported:
- Git repositories — commits from tracked repos
- Markdown files — notes with tag or heading filters
- Obsidian vaults — modified/created files by timestamp
Planned sources:
Calendar events, browser history, issue trackers (Jira, Linear, GitHub Issues), communication tools.
We need your help! If you have ideas for additional sources, please open an issue or contribute via pull request.
anker has no default data sources. Every source must be explicitly added by you with anker source add. anker does not monitor your system or collect data automatically.
Your data stays local:
- No telemetry, no analytics, no cloud sync
- All storage in plain text files (
~/.anker/) - Human-readable YAML and Markdown
- No background processes or filesystem watchers
We’re in the early stages and welcome contributions! Whether it’s:
- New data source providers
- Bug fixes and improvements
- Documentation enhancements
- Feature ideas
See our Issue Templates to get started.
- Not a time tracker
- Not a productivity optimizer
- Not a background daemon
- Not a cloud service
- Not a monitoring tool
Apache 2.0 — see LICENSE for details.
Get started now:
curl -sSL https://charemma.de/anker/install.sh | sh
anker source add git .
anker recap today