quarter VS obsidian-releases

I am working on a personal time-tracker where I try to make it as effortless as possible to keep track of what activities you spend time on.

Rationale, as a consultant I am often required to use multiple time-tracking software, all made for accountants, all terrible to use. I made this little web application where I can track my daily activities and at the end of the week transfer the result to whatever system needed.

The desktop is the most polished mode, mobile is functional but I mostly use if for viewing.

It's open source, the hosted version has open registrations given a GitHub or GMail account.

I would appreciate feedback on basically anything. I have been using the same system (during many different rewrites) for years so I am pretty blind to what needs improvement.

https://github.com/eliasson/quarter

https://quarterapp.com/

Thanks!

I have this hobby project for personal time tracking I work on from time to time. It's usable enough for my daily use so motivation has dropped since that point.

https://github.com/eliasson/quarter

I've used QuarterApp for personal time tracking. Not sure if it has grouping features though: https://github.com/eliasson/quarter

It has now reached a point where I think it could be of use or interest for others. You can find it here if you're interested https://github.com/eliasson/quarter

The closest editor that follows our first principle is Obsidian editor:

The solution was already installed on both my computer and my phone: Obsidian.

> why does open source need to "win"

Open source does not need to win.

But your ability to be in control of your computer needs to be preserved. A proprietary fridge cannot control your diet, while a proprietary App Store can control what software you install on YOUR phone (unless you live in EU, hello DMA!). The tail wags the dog, so to speak. Proprietary software has also been shown to break user workflows or remove functions in an update while leaving users with no choice whatsoever.

One alternative to having open source win is to ensure software must come with a robust warranty and other assurances you expect from the things you buy. EU's CRA will make software vulnerabilities in WiFi routers covered by warranty, for example.

You can also ensure robust and interoperable data storage options. For example, https://obsidian.md/ stores all notes in Markdown, not holding the data hostage in case users will not like how future versions will work. GDPR actually has a provision for data portability (Art. 20), but it does not seem to have a requisite effect on the industry yet.

And until the above issues are solved, open source remains the best way to ensure that a software tail cannot wag your computer dog.

[2] https://obsidian.md/

So I've had my fair share of personal websites and blogs. I have built them on stacks ranging from the most basic HTML and CSS, to hosted frameworks like Wordpress and Laravel, to the more modern single page applications built in Vue and React. For a simple content blog I think you can't go wrong with a Static Site Generator though. These days I am almost exclusively writing everything in Obsidian. Which is great because its all in standard markdown format. This allows for a really neat and easy content publishing workflow.

Consider making an Obsidian[^1] plugin, or writing to Obsidian-compatible Markdown files :)

[^1]: https://obsidian.md/

Obsidian is a writing application created to allow for offline / private note taking in markdown format, in an interface that looks a lot like our regular programming IDE. It is very flexible, with a good collection of community plugins that you can use to customize Obsidian to your heart contents.

Obsidian support via our Obsidian Plugin

Thank you!

In the beginning, I used kognise'z water.css [1], so most of the smart decisions (background/text color, margins, line spacing I think) probably come from there. Since then it's been some amount of little adjustments. The font is by Jean François Porchez, called Le Monde Livre Classic [2].

I draft in Obsidian [3] and build the site with a couple python scripts and KaTeX.

[1] https://watercss.kognise.dev/

[2] https://typofonderie.com/fr/fonts/le-monde-livre-classic

[3] https://obsidian.md/