category builder not working
Author: LukeN90LeadlyCreated Aug 3, 2026Updated Aug 7, 2026
Labelstype: bug
- I am on the latest ActivityWatch version.
- I have searched the issues of this repo and believe that this is not a duplicate.
- OS name and version: 26.5.2 (25F84) MacOS Tahoe
- ActivityWatch version: v0.13.2
Describe the bug
2 parts to my issue which might be linked but I'm unsure.
(1) I'm getting the error: "Unable to find bucket matching 'aw-watcher-window_unknown' (hostname filter set to 'None')" randomly appear at the top of my activity feed whenever I click on filtering the reports etc.
(2) I'm getting 'High uncategorized time' as a warning telling me to go to the category builder. However when I visit the page I'm getting "Common words in "Uncategorized" events" come back as 'Loading' and it never loads.
I did see a similar issue a couple of years back when I checked, my hostname is 'unknown' but I couldn't seem to figure out if that was part of the problem.
Expected behavior
The unknown category to load and for me to be able to classify it.Documentation
Additional context
Source: ActivityWatch/activitywatch