simon-gunacker / timetracker

a simple cli to track activities

timetracker

timetracker is a simple commandline tool fro tracking your time.

Dependencies And Requirements

It requires python3 and linux. Furthermore, one has to have mysql and mysql-config. To install it, invoke sudo apt-get install python3-dev libmysqlclient-dev. Afterwards, you can install mysqlclient using sudo pip3 install mysqlclient. Finally, you have to copy settings.cfg.default to settings.cfg and set all your db configurations

Current State Of Development

To run timetracker, simply invoke .src/tt.py from your commandline. timetracker supports the options listed below. Note that timetracker supports autocompletion and history for all commands.

start an activity

To start an activity, type start <name_of_activity>

stop the current activity

To stop the current activity, simple type stop

list current activities

To list activities type list <pattern>. All activities beginning with the given pattern will be listed. They are grouped by their name and their overall time is summed up. When no pattern is given, all activities will be listed.

Things To Do

• sync: use rsync to download / upload your timings.db

• hierachical queries: timings should be listed hierachically, e.g. in addition to showing timings for work.project1 and work.project2, timetracker should also show the overall time for work.

• extended code completion: activities already known by the database should be included in autocompletion.