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What tools do you use for time/project tracking?

l0b0 7y ago
I use Time Keeping Sucks (TKS), because it's a great little command line tool[0], Vim format, web UI[1] and more written by some very talented colleagues and lots of people (myself included) use it daily at work. It's built to interface with the time tracking system at work, but could probably easily be generalized to work with any similar API. (You might find my Python stub[2] if you search for the name. It's really just a development setup based on other work, to maybe use the ideas from the original Perl implementation and hopefully involve a wider community.) [0] https://debian.catalyst.net.nz/catalyst/dists/stable/catalyst/binary-amd64/tks_1.0.32_all.deb https://debian.catalyst.net.nz/catalyst/dists/stable/catalys... [1] https://github.com/grantm/tksweb https://github.com/grantm/tksweb [2] https://gitlab.com/victor-engmark/tks/ https://gitlab.com/victor-engmark/tks/
chaorace 7y ago
Followup question: Can anyone comment on using the org-mode clock feature for something like this? I keep running into mentions of the feature in the manual, but I've never seen anyone actually using it in the wild.
- celeritascelery 7y ago
  I use org-mode for time tracking. I like that I can see the project I am supposed to be working on at the bottom of the screen. Helps keep me on track.
notemaker 7y ago
Activitywatch is nice
- j88439h84 7y ago
  Activitywatch is open source and self-hosted, and written in Python. It's good!
  - oehtXRwMkIs 7y ago
    There's even a Rust implementation that's being worked on, it's pretty nice. Still not as convenient as RescueTime though. Doesn't have automatic categorization for example.
leetrout 7y ago
I am a fan of rescuetime.com I set up separate accounts on my machine for personal, work, sideprojects and log in to those accounts when I am working or when I want to veg out and play minecraft. Couple this with an invasive tracker like rescuetime and I can have HN and reddit blocked on my work-related user accounts.
- jonfw 7y ago
  This is really clever. It's a very robust way of introducing artificial friction to mode switching
neuland 7y ago
I'm using a toy command line python app that I wrote when I was learning how to do PEG grammars. But I've used Harvest [0] in the past when I was a contractor and I was happy with that for time tracking and invoicing. [0] https://www.getharvest.com https://www.getharvest.com

l0b0 7y ago

I use Time Keeping Sucks (TKS), because it's a great little command line tool[0], Vim format, web UI[1] and more written by some very talented colleagues and lots of people (myself included) use it daily at work. It's built to interface with the time tracking system at work, but could probably easily be generalized to work with any similar API. (You might find my Python stub[2] if you search for the name. It's really just a development setup based on other work, to maybe use the ideas from the original Perl implementation and hopefully involve a wider community.) [0] https://debian.catalyst.net.nz/catalyst/dists/stable/catalyst/binary-amd64/tks_1.0.32_all.deb https://debian.catalyst.net.nz/catalyst/dists/stable/catalys... [1] https://github.com/grantm/tksweb https://github.com/grantm/tksweb [2] https://gitlab.com/victor-engmark/tks/ https://gitlab.com/victor-engmark/tks/

chaorace 7y ago

Followup question: Can anyone comment on using the org-mode clock feature for something like this? I keep running into mentions of the feature in the manual, but I've never seen anyone actually using it in the wild.

celeritascelery 7y ago
I use org-mode for time tracking. I like that I can see the project I am supposed to be working on at the bottom of the screen. Helps keep me on track.

notemaker 7y ago

Activitywatch is nice

j88439h84 7y ago
Activitywatch is open source and self-hosted, and written in Python. It's good!
- oehtXRwMkIs 7y ago
  There's even a Rust implementation that's being worked on, it's pretty nice. Still not as convenient as RescueTime though. Doesn't have automatic categorization for example.

leetrout 7y ago

I am a fan of rescuetime.com I set up separate accounts on my machine for personal, work, sideprojects and log in to those accounts when I am working or when I want to veg out and play minecraft. Couple this with an invasive tracker like rescuetime and I can have HN and reddit blocked on my work-related user accounts.

jonfw 7y ago
This is really clever. It's a very robust way of introducing artificial friction to mode switching

neuland 7y ago

I'm using a toy command line python app that I wrote when I was learning how to do PEG grammars. But I've used Harvest [0] in the past when I was a contractor and I was happy with that for time tracking and invoicing. [0] https://www.getharvest.com https://www.getharvest.com