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Now that you're all here, I'm playing with the idea to create a CLI tool so that you can start and stop records from the command line. Would this be interesting

Now that you're all here, I'm playing with the idea to create a CLI tool so that you can start and stop records from the command line. Would this be interesting to you or would it only be a gimmick?

zomgwat 6y ago
Possible integrations with tools like Alfred (macOS app) is a good reason to have a CLI (IMO). I use Watson [1] to track time and mostly interact with it through Alfred. [1] https://tailordev.github.io/Watson/ https://tailordev.github.io/Watson/
- josephd79 6y ago
  +1 for Watson
beshrkayali 6y ago
Org mode on emacs has some pretty nice clocking commands [1] that I find useful frequently. I guess a similar separate cli tool would be nice as well. [1] https://orgmode.org/manual/Clocking-commands.html https://orgmode.org/manual/Clocking-commands.html
pgporada 6y ago
Interesting. I could see myself opening a terminal (or 10) to perform some small scope of work, starting the timer, and then closing the terminals and timer once that task is done.
maaarghk 6y ago
yes, classic january stuff, but I was just thinking I could be doing with a daemon that I can control with rofi for tracking time, I could write some scripts to integrate it with freeagent and perhaps query how much money I made today and display it on i3status. with a CLI over your tool I would only be writing a few wee scripts, which would be ideal. (p.s. if anyone reading this has a suggestion that isn't tied to a python script written by someone whose new year resolution is "Launch 12 products this year and blog about it next year" i would appreciate a pointer. This seems like something a gnu tool probably exists for. I just checked and this one has no API which makes it useless for me since the value is all the boring work is already done...)
loxias 6y ago
It wouldn't be a gimmick, I imagine it would be a hard requirement for me to use the program at all.

Now that you're all here, I'm playing with the idea to create a CLI tool so that you can start and stop records from the command line. Would this be interesting to you or would it only be a gimmick?

zomgwat 6y ago

Possible integrations with tools like Alfred (macOS app) is a good reason to have a CLI (IMO). I use Watson [1] to track time and mostly interact with it through Alfred. [1] https://tailordev.github.io/Watson/ https://tailordev.github.io/Watson/

josephd79 6y ago
+1 for Watson

beshrkayali 6y ago

Org mode on emacs has some pretty nice clocking commands [1] that I find useful frequently. I guess a similar separate cli tool would be nice as well. [1] https://orgmode.org/manual/Clocking-commands.html https://orgmode.org/manual/Clocking-commands.html

pgporada 6y ago

Interesting. I could see myself opening a terminal (or 10) to perform some small scope of work, starting the timer, and then closing the terminals and timer once that task is done.

maaarghk 6y ago

yes, classic january stuff, but I was just thinking I could be doing with a daemon that I can control with rofi for tracking time, I could write some scripts to integrate it with freeagent and perhaps query how much money I made today and display it on i3status. with a CLI over your tool I would only be writing a few wee scripts, which would be ideal. (p.s. if anyone reading this has a suggestion that isn't tied to a python script written by someone whose new year resolution is "Launch 12 products this year and blog about it next year" i would appreciate a pointer. This seems like something a gnu tool probably exists for. I just checked and this one has no API which makes it useless for me since the value is all the boring work is already done...)

loxias 6y ago

It wouldn't be a gimmick, I imagine it would be a hard requirement for me to use the program at all.