Semi-automatic tasks tracking? about arbtt

[nomeata]

Original comment by nomeata (Bitbucket: nomeata, GitHub: nomeata).

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Hi Ilya,

what you describe has been proposed before, but people found out a nice way to achieve that without modifications to arbtt: You simply open a program where you can control the title, and use that to add your data. This can even be achieved by a simple shell script:

#!bash
while read -p "New title: " title
do echo -n -e  '\033]2;'"task: $title'\007'
done

You now have a program with title task: Foo in your program list that you can easily match using regular expressions.

[nomeata]

Original comment by Ilya Portnov (Bitbucket: iportnov, ).

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Hello.

That's ok if i work on one issue in one program, especially if that program is a terminal. But what if i'm working on one issue in several programs, and in most of them i can't control title? For example, i would like to say "hey, arbtt, I am currently writing code in Netbeans, but log that time for jira issue #123!".

[nomeata]

Original comment by nomeata (Bitbucket: nomeata, GitHub: nomeata).

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Then you have netbeans open as usual, but also have a terminal window open somewhere (can be on another workspace) with the above program, where you specified Jira-Issue: #123.

[nomeata]

Original comment by Jan Schulz (Bitbucket: jan-schulz, GitHub: jan-schulz).

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Here is the zsh version of the above: while vared -p "New task: " -c -h task; do title "task: $task"; done

Nevertheless, I still would like to see a version where I could change tasks afterwards, e.g. I forgot to change the task and want to edit it. For that a different database would be nice which would be automatically merged with the current one.

[nomeata]

Original comment by nomeata (Bitbucket: nomeata, GitHub: nomeata).

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Issue #94 was marked as a duplicate of this issue.

[nomeata]

Original comment by Ken Mankoff (Bitbucket: mankoff, GitHub: mankoff).

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I came across this before submitting issue #94. If that is considered a duplicate,then I have a follow-up I don't see here - is there a way to mark historical events (e.g. the last hour of idle was actually "meeting project X").

[nomeata]

Original comment by Ilya Portnov (Bitbucket: iportnov, ).

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@ken Mankoff
I think for such "non-computer" activity it worth considering to use another application. Maybe think of some "database", which could use arbtt and other sources as data sources and provide some reports.