Show HN: Time tracking with plain text files

• klog

  6 515 7.6 Go

  Command line tool for time tracking in a human-readable, plain-text file format. (by jotaen)

• clj-org-analyzer

  6 274 0.0 Clojure

  Fun with org data

I use emacs org mode with the built-in time tracking features (org-clock-in). A while ago I built an analyzer for org files that allows to spice and dice how you spent your time: https://github.com/rksm/clj-org-analyzer This has become my daily vehicle for tracking work.

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• timetrap

  6 1,462 0.0 Ruby

  Simple command line timetracker

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.

• gtimelog

  3 247 7.3 Python

  A time tracking application

  

I have been using the format used by gtimelog[1] for years. It has the benefit of adding one entry per line, so processing is extremely simple.

[1]: https://github.com/gtimelog/gtimelog/blob/master/docs/format...

• tasktimes

  1 2 0.0 C

  Simple command-line time tracking

The method I chose was a clock-in/clock-out type of system where you can use the tool to start and stop tasks. Of course, you can type in and edit entries if you want, but the formatting is much more strict than your system.

https://github.com/timpark/tasktimes

• CCTime

  1 14 0.0 C#

  Simple, unobtrusive time tracking utility for Windows (by rlv-dan)

Shameless self promotion: I got tired of using Excel but could not find a simple way to track my time so I built my own and I think many here would find it useful:

https://github.com/rlv-dan/cctime

• mdtimesheet

  3 7 3.8 Go

  Calculates time spent on projects, based on a markdown .plan style timesheet file.

Update:

https://github.com/keyle/mdtimesheet

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