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Do you use an app for this, or do you just use the timer?

• barrucadu 6y ago
  I'm manually noting down durations in timedot format (https://hledger.org/hledger.html#timedot-format https://hledger.org/hledger.html#timedot-format) in a text file. For example, today's entry as of 18:32 is: 2021-01-03 leisure:anime ....................... leisure:social .. sleep 6.5h chores:foodprep . chores:regular . leisure:social ...... leisure:ttrpg:play .......... Each dot is 15 minutes, so I'm missing a bit of time today. Oh well. I think that having a timer app which lets me start / stop timers individually and give them names would be helpful. The one I'm currently using, on my phone, just has a single stopwatch.
  • 6equj5 6y ago
    Shameless plug: I wrote a little Python timer for Linux that works great with a dropdown terminal like Yakuake: https://github.com/krotera/timerBeetle https://github.com/krotera/timerBeetle I often use it for timed tasks, and it's faster than reaching for my phone or even opening a browser tab (and, unlike a Google or DDG timer, it doesn't keep ringing until you re-raise the browser window, find the tab, and silence it, which always annoyed me). : p
  • tracyhenry 6y ago
    The font of the entry looks different than normal texts. How is that done?
    • kzrdude 6y ago
      See https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc (from FAQ)
      • tracyhenry 6y ago
        Thanks!