diff --git a/src/queries.ts b/src/queries.ts
index f8d5c8ab..573a2158 100644
--- a/src/queries.ts
+++ b/src/queries.ts
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ interface DesktopQueryParams extends BaseQueryParams {
   bid_window: string;
   bid_afk: string;
   filter_afk: boolean;
+  always_active_pattern: string;
 }
 
 interface AndroidQueryParams extends BaseQueryParams {
@@ -48,6 +49,7 @@ interface AndroidQueryParams extends BaseQueryParams {
 interface MultiQueryParams extends BaseQueryParams {
   hosts: string[];
   filter_afk: boolean;
+  always_active_pattern: string;
   // This can be used to override params on a per-host basis
   host_params: { [host: string]: DesktopQueryParams | AndroidQueryParams };
 }
@@ -102,6 +104,9 @@ function isMultiParams(object: any): object is MultiQueryParams {
 export function canonicalEvents(params: DesktopQueryParams | AndroidQueryParams): string {
   // Needs escaping for regex patterns like '\w' to work (JSON.stringify adds extra unecessary escaping)
   const categories_str = JSON.stringify(params.categories).replace(/\\\\/g, '\\');
+  const always_active_pattern_str = isDesktopParams(params)
+    ? params.always_active_pattern.replace(/\\\\/g, '\\')
+    : undefined;
   const cat_filter_str = JSON.stringify(params.filter_categories);
 
   // For simplicity, we assume that bid_window and bid_android are exchangeable (note however it needs special treatment)
@@ -115,7 +120,13 @@ export function canonicalEvents(params: DesktopQueryParams | AndroidQueryParams)
     // Fetch not-afk events
     isDesktopParams(params)
       ? `not_afk = flood(query_bucket("${params.bid_afk}"));
-         not_afk = filter_keyvals(not_afk, "status", ["not-afk"]);`
+         not_afk = filter_keyvals(not_afk, "status", ["not-afk"]);` +
+        (always_active_pattern_str
+          ? `not_treat_as_afk = filter_keyvals_regex(events, "app", "${always_active_pattern_str}");
+             not_afk = period_union(not_afk, not_treat_as_afk);
+             not_treat_as_afk = filter_keyvals_regex(events, "title", "${always_active_pattern_str}");
+             not_afk = period_union(not_afk, not_treat_as_afk);`
+          : '')
       : '',
     // Fetch browser events
     isDesktopParams(params) && params.bid_browsers
diff --git a/src/stores/activity.ts b/src/stores/activity.ts
index d8078e59..72a2f98e 100644
--- a/src/stores/activity.ts
+++ b/src/stores/activity.ts
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ export interface QueryOptions {
   filter_categories?: string[][];
   dont_query_inactive?: boolean;
   force?: boolean;
+  always_active_pattern?: string;
 }
 
 interface State {
@@ -301,7 +302,7 @@ export const useActivityStore = defineStore('activity', {
     },
 
     async query_multidevice_full(
-      { timeperiod, filter_categories, filter_afk }: QueryOptions,
+      { timeperiod, filter_categories, filter_afk, always_active_pattern }: QueryOptions,
       hosts: string[]
     ) {
       const periods = [timeperiodToStr(timeperiod)];
@@ -313,6 +314,7 @@ export const useActivityStore = defineStore('activity', {
         categories,
         filter_categories,
         host_params: {},
+        always_active_pattern,
       });
       const data = await getClient().query(periods, q);
       const data_window = data[0].window;
@@ -329,6 +331,7 @@ export const useActivityStore = defineStore('activity', {
       filter_afk,
       include_audible,
       include_stopwatch,
+      always_active_pattern,
     }: QueryOptions) {
       const periods = [timeperiodToStr(timeperiod)];
       const categories = useCategoryStore().classes_for_query;
@@ -345,6 +348,7 @@ export const useActivityStore = defineStore('activity', {
         categories,
         filter_categories,
         include_audible,
+        always_active_pattern,
       });
       const data = await getClient().query(periods, q);
       const data_window = data[0].window;
@@ -382,6 +386,7 @@ export const useActivityStore = defineStore('activity', {
       filter_afk,
       include_stopwatch,
       dontQueryInactive,
+      always_active_pattern,
     }: QueryOptions & { dontQueryInactive: boolean }) {
       // TODO: Needs to be adapted for Android
       let periods: string[];
@@ -454,6 +459,7 @@ export const useActivityStore = defineStore('activity', {
             categories,
             filter_categories,
             filter_afk,
+            always_active_pattern,
           })
         );
         data = data.concat(result);
diff --git a/src/stores/settings.ts b/src/stores/settings.ts
index cb173747..6f90c861 100644
--- a/src/stores/settings.ts
+++ b/src/stores/settings.ts
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ interface State {
 
   newReleaseCheckData: Record<string, any>;
   userSatisfactionPollData: Record<string, any>;
+  always_active_pattern: string;
 
   // Whether to show certain WIP features
   devmode: boolean;
@@ -49,6 +50,8 @@ export const useSettingsStore = defineStore('settings', {
     },
     userSatisfactionPollData: {},
 
+    always_active_pattern: '',
+
     // Developer settings
     // NOTE: PRODUCTION might be undefined (in tests, for example)
     devmode: typeof PRODUCTION === 'undefined' ? true : !PRODUCTION,
diff --git a/src/views/activity/Activity.vue b/src/views/activity/Activity.vue
index 2b9d361a..31726cb2 100644
--- a/src/views/activity/Activity.vue
+++ b/src/views/activity/Activity.vue
@@ -203,6 +203,7 @@ export default {
   computed: {
     ...mapState(useViewsStore, ['views']),
     ...mapState(useSettingsStore, ['devmode']),
+    ...mapState(useSettingsStore, ['always_active_pattern']),
 
     // number of filters currently set (different from defaults)
     filters_set() {
@@ -406,6 +407,7 @@ export default {
         include_audible: this.include_audible,
         include_stopwatch: this.include_stopwatch,
         filter_categories: this.filter_categories,
+        always_active_pattern: this.always_active_pattern,
       };
       await this.activityStore.ensure_loaded(queryOptions);
     },
diff --git a/src/views/settings/ActivePatternSettings.vue b/src/views/settings/ActivePatternSettings.vue
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8707e3d7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/views/settings/ActivePatternSettings.vue
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+<template lang="pug">
+div
+  div.d-sm-flex.justify-content-between
+    div
+      h5.mb-2.mb-sm-0 Always count as active pattern
+
+      small
+        | Apps or titles matching this regular expression will never be counted as AFK.
+        |
+        | Can be used to count time as active, despite no input (like meetings, or games with controllers). An empty string disables it.
+        |
+        | Example expression:&nbsp;
+        code(style="background-color: rgba(200, 200, 200, 0.3); padding: 2px; border-radius: 2px;")
+          | Zoom Meeting|Google Meet|Microsoft Teams
+    div
+      b-form-input(size="sm" v-model="always_active_pattern")
+      small.text-right
+        div(v-if="enabled" style="color: #0A0") Enabled
+        div(v-else, style="color: gray") Disabled
+        div(v-if="enabled && broad_pattern" style="color: #A00") Pattern too broad
+
+</template>
+
+<script>
+import { useSettingsStore } from '~/stores/settings';
+
+export default {
+  name: 'ActivePatternSettings',
+  data() {
+    return {
+      settingsStore: useSettingsStore(),
+    };
+  },
+  computed: {
+    enabled: function () {
+      return this.settingsStore.always_active_pattern != '';
+    },
+    broad_pattern: function () {
+      // Check if the pattern matches random strings that we don't expect it to
+      // like the alphabet
+      const pattern = this.settingsStore.always_active_pattern;
+      if (pattern == '') {
+        return false;
+      }
+      const re = new RegExp(pattern);
+      const alphabet = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz';
+      const numbers = '0123456789';
+      return re.test(
+        'THIS STRING SHOULD PROBABLY NOT MATCH: ' + alphabet + alphabet.toUpperCase() + numbers
+      );
+    },
+    always_active_pattern: {
+      get() {
+        return this.settingsStore.always_active_pattern;
+      },
+      set(value) {
+        if (value.trim().length != 0 || this.settingsStore.always_active_pattern.length != 0) {
+          console.log('Setting always_active_pattern to ' + value);
+          this.settingsStore.update({ always_active_pattern: value });
+        }
+      },
+    },
+  },
+};
+</script>
diff --git a/src/views/settings/Settings.vue b/src/views/settings/Settings.vue
index 14e3c409..b8868349 100644
--- a/src/views/settings/Settings.vue
+++ b/src/views/settings/Settings.vue
@@ -30,6 +30,10 @@ div
 
   hr
 
+  ActivePatternSettings
+
+  hr
+
   CategorizationSettings
 
   hr
@@ -48,6 +52,7 @@ import LandingPageSettings from '~/views/settings/LandingPageSettings.vue';
 import DeveloperSettings from '~/views/settings/DeveloperSettings.vue';
 import Theme from '~/views/settings/Theme.vue';
 import ColorSettings from '~/views/settings/ColorSettings.vue';
+import ActivePatternSettings from '~/views/settings/ActivePatternSettings.vue';
 
 export default {
   name: 'Settings',
@@ -60,6 +65,7 @@ export default {
     Theme,
     ColorSettings,
     DeveloperSettings,
+    ActivePatternSettings,
   },
   async created() {
     await this.init();
diff --git a/test/unit/__snapshots__/queries.test.node.js.snap b/test/unit/__snapshots__/queries.test.node.js.snap
index 2d55ae3b..a5d0451e 100644
--- a/test/unit/__snapshots__/queries.test.node.js.snap
+++ b/test/unit/__snapshots__/queries.test.node.js.snap
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ exports[`generate fullDesktopQuery 1`] = `
 "events = flood(query_bucket(\\"\\"));
 not_afk = flood(query_bucket(\\"\\"));
 not_afk = filter_keyvals(not_afk, \\"status\\", [\\"not-afk\\"]);
+not_treat_as_afk = filter_keyvals_regex(events, \\"app\\", \\"meow|nyaan\\");
+not_afk = period_union(not_afk, not_treat_as_afk);
+not_treat_as_afk = filter_keyvals_regex(events, \\"title\\", \\"meow|nyaan\\");
+not_afk = period_union(not_afk, not_treat_as_afk);
 browser_events = [];
 audible_events = filter_keyvals(browser_events, \\"audible\\", [true]);
 not_afk = period_union(not_afk, audible_events);
diff --git a/test/unit/queries.test.node.js b/test/unit/queries.test.node.js
index 3f03c073..4fd3e397 100644
--- a/test/unit/queries.test.node.js
+++ b/test/unit/queries.test.node.js
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ test('generate fullDesktopQuery', () => {
   const categories = [];
   const filter_categories = true;
   const include_audible = true;
+  const always_active_pattern = 'meow|nyaan';
   const query_lines = queries.fullDesktopQuery({
     bid_window,
     bid_afk,
@@ -16,6 +17,7 @@ test('generate fullDesktopQuery', () => {
     categories,
     filter_categories,
     include_audible,
+    always_active_pattern,
   });
 
   // join query lines into a single string