It’s the twenty fourth today, and people who have been good will soon get things, and those who haven’t will get a lump of coal. Given enough pressure that coal could become a diamond. At such a time it’s interesting to take stock of how productive, or unproductive the year has been. One tool with which to do this is timetagger. Timetagger is either a free app, if you set it up on a local machine, or a paying app if you use a cloud services version.
For at least two or three years I have been using Timelogger and I really liked the app. That’s why I kept using it for so long. There is one fatal flaw to Timelogger. It wants you to pay 2 CHF per month, or 9 CHF per year, or 25 CHF for a lifetime of use. It makes sense to pay for more features. It doesn’t make sense that you need to pay to backup to your own icloud account or export the data.
Today I played with Timetrap, a command line time tracking app. It allows you to track the time you spend doing specific tasks with ease. To install the app you can run the command.
gem install timetrap To create a timesheet you type:
t sheet blogging and it will create/switch to that timesheet. Type this to start the timer.
t in And to stop the timer
t out t list will show a list of timesheets, t display will show the timed sessions for that document and more.