Best commandline time tracking application? [closed]

Answer 1

I recently started using Worklog, it seems pretty simple and straight forward.

http://ajy.co/2010/worklog-a-simple-time-tracking-program/

Answer 2

If you use todo.txt-cli, you should consider using punch time tracking, written in Python.

Answer 3

Depends on the information you want to time track. In one company we had just to track our total working times a day (tax/social insurance purpose). The easieast solution was: last. More granular you could just do something like

echo -e -n `date`\tProjectName\tTask\tComment >> MyTimeTable.txt
...whatever...
echo -e \t`date` >> MyTimeTable.txt

and procsessing with the usual suspects (grep, awk, ...).

When you need even more functionality, I dont know anyone which works without a gui.

Answer 4

App::TimeTracker - the easily extendable command line based time tracker

~$ cd work/some_project
~/work/some_project$ tracker start
Started working on some_project at 13:06:20
~/work/some_project$ # hack ... hack ... hack
~/work/some_project$ tracker stop
Worked 00:15:42 on some_project

~/work/some_project$ cd ../other_project
~/work/other_project$ tracker start
Started working on other_project at 13:32:54
~/work/other_project$ # hack some more
~/work/other_project$ tracker current
Working 00:35:31 on other_project
Started at 13:32:54

~/work/other_project$ tracker start --tag testing
Worked 00:38:23 on other_project
Started working on other_project (testing) at 14:11:27
~/work/other_project$ # hack, then go for lunch
~/work/other_project$ # ups, forgot to hit stop when I left
~/work/other_project$ tracker stop --at 14:30
Worked 00:18:33 on other_project (testing)

~/work/other_project$ tracker report --this day
work                     01:12:38
   some_project             00:15:42
   other_project            00:56:56
total                    01:12:38

Further details on the authors site: http://timetracker.plix.at/

Answer 5

Emacs org-mode!

• (Video) Emacs Org-mode - a system for note-taking and project planning
• Emacs and Org-mode to implement GTD
• Time Clocking

Answer 6

a real basic one would be

$ echo `date`": what I'm doing now" >> timelog.txt

If you want to process it later, it's easier if you make that date +%s or date +%F%T.

You could wrap that as a shell script:

#!/usr/bin/bash -
echo `date +%s` $* >> ~/timelog.txt

Some hint of what you really want to do might help.