timetrap VS org-journal

After using Ruby's timetrap (sadly no longer maintained) for many years, I realized there was no equivalent in the Node.JS ecosystem, so I decided to build one.

I have used TimeTrap (https://github.com/samg/timetrap) for years. I have it installed on a dev/utility server I have hosted in the cloud. I use JuiceSSH on my android phone to run quick check in and check out scripts. While I'm at my workstation I have a terminal open that is SSHed into my VM. One of the panels in tmux is using a watch command to monitor my time. Purely just a time tracking function so I can't generate invoices or anything like that.

You might be able to do this with timetrap. It is a command-line utility which uses the concept of "timesheets". So, each of your timers A, B, C, can be a timesheet and you can use text commands to start/stop/display etc.

I just wanted to share a project I'm working on for all those who use the timetrap timetracker : a neovim plugin called timetrap.nvim.

The conceptual difference is the file format, as with klog the main idea is to have a format that looks and feels “natural”. So when opening a `.klg` file you don’t need to know much about the format in order to make sense of it, yet the data can be parsed and processed. And you can type in the entries by hand in a text editor. The data format in timewarrior is more opaque, even though it’s still plain text of course.

There are, by the way, also cool projects that use sqlite as underlying datastore, like https://github.com/samg/timetrap , which produces a similar output as timewarrior.

I use org-mode with org-journal https://github.com/bastibe/org-journal

What's nice about this workflow is when I create TODO items and don't finish them for a day it transfers over to the next day.

Sounds like org-mode is what you need, particularly clocking like was mentioned in another comment. However your workflow requires lots of customization. Ultimately you need to take a deeper dive into org-mode and what it can do(and how), along with org-clock-convenience with maybe org-journal. Your starting point should always be agenda, not the .org file itself.

As mentioned elsewhere, I too do a mix (happy to talk fountain pens and paper if you’d like). But for digital, Emacs is the supreme solution. It has tools like Org-roam for Zettlekasten-style notes, Org-journal for a developers journal, Org-babel for literate (or Jupyter-style) explorations. Nothing else comes close. Oh, and the “E” stands for extensible, so if it doesn’t do what you need, you can make it yourself.

For the second question, 1. try package like org-reverse-datetree and org-journal which can custom data format and level. 2. use file+function in capture template to find the right location in the file. 3. make the function in 2 respect you extend-day-until.

org-journal seems to fit your description pretty well. I have been using it for years.

- type my timestamped notes

I can do this from any buffer in Emacs, so it's really convenient to stop in the middle of something, jot down a note, and then go right back to what I was doing. I develop iOS/macOS software right now, so the switch to Emacs from Xcode is a little more friction than I used to have, but it's so useful I don't mind it at all.

I have a weekly journal in a directory for the year, titled week number-month-day that started that week (this week's is `34_08-23`)

[0]https://github.com/bastibe/org-journal

bastibe/org-journal is already a feature full extension to Org for keeping a journal. And actively maintained by Bastian and Christian.

I'm interested in using org-journal, a minor mode for Emacs org-mode, which supports collapsing. https://github.com/bastibe/org-journal

    * Tuesday, 06/04/13