Best commandline time tracking application? [closed]

Answer 1

I recently discovered TaskWarrior, which is purely CLI but quite feature-rich.

EDIT June 2015: Since I wrote this answer years ago, taskwarrior has developed in an awesome project with lots of features and integrations. Among my favourite there are:

• https://inthe.am/about (web interface)
• http://mirakel.azapps.de/index.html (android app)

More taskwarrior tools here.

Answer 2

You could use wtime:

wtime [ -t task ] [ <action> ]

-t  task
    Specify the name of the task. It has to be  a  valid  file-
    name.  Only the first 32 characters are taken into account.
    The default value is "default".

action is one of the following:

-h  Display help.

-a  Start counting.

-s  Stop counting.

-c  Display current elapsed time in seconds.

-r  [ start [ end ]]
    Display time spent on the task during the  specified
    period.  The  parametres start and end represent the
    begginning and end of the reporting  period  respec-
    tively.  The  format  of start and end is '%d-%m-%Y'
    (see strptime (1)).  The default values are the cur-
    rent  time for end and the begginning of the current
    month for the start parameter.

Answer 3

TimeTrap. It's simple and lightweight, and somewhat intuitive to use.

$ t switch World Domination Plan
$ t in --at "5 minutes ago" Research Volcano Islands
$ t out
$ t display
Timesheet World Domination Plan:
Day            Start      End        Duration   Notes
Mar 14, 2009   19:53:30 - 20:06:15   0:12:45    Research Volcano Islands
Total                                0:12:45

It's written in ruby an available as a gem on gemcutter or on github: http://github.com/samg/timetrap

A similar tool written in python is called TimeBook and available on bitbucket.