I use three very simple aliases for the commandline,<p><pre><code> alias ttag='/cygdrive/c/Dropbox/tools/ttag/ttag.sh'
alias ttagcat='cat /cygdrive/c/Dropbox/tools/ttag/ttag-logfile.txt'
alias ttago='open /cygdrive/c/Dropbox/tools/ttag/ttag-logfile.txt'
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where `ttag.sh` is<p><pre><code> # specify the logfile
LOGFILE=/cygdrive/c/Dropbox/tools/ttag/ttag-logfile.txt
# timestamp format
TIMESTAMP_NICE=$(date +"%F %H.%M.%S - %s:")
# always append to the logfile
echo $TIMESTAMP_NICE "$@" >> $LOGFILE
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simple enough for me :)
very simple to add a small note from the commandline, which is timestamped. Makes it easier to get a grasp of how much time I've spent on something, eg when switching between customer projects.
I was gonna say positive things until the page-wide unclosable buy-me-now popup jumped up. This is the kind of web no one wants to touch, even with a long stick, never mind sponsoring it through an annual payment.
I wrote something more automatic for myself. I ask the Google Calendar API how many hours I spend in meetings that week. From that I calculate how many working hours I have for other things. I then use the WakaTime API to get how many hours I spent working already (making sure to not double count during meetings). WakaTime can track my editor usage, terminal usage and work in Chrome (e.g. PR reviews). I use a separate Chrome profile to make sure I only track work-related browsing time, and Choosy to open links to our company GitHub automatically in the work profile.
I show a summary of the time spent and left in my terminal prompt.
Overall really happy with it!
I personally really like RescueTime (<a href="https://www.rescuetime.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.rescuetime.com</a>), does all of the tracking automatically and allows for custom categorization and productivity settings. Been using it for many many years, they've been keeping up, even added a mobile version a couple years back.
I swear by <a href="https://timingapp.com/" rel="nofollow">https://timingapp.com/</a> it's almost frictionless to track time. I've been using it at work for over 2 years daily now, and I don't even use the results anymore.
Wrote a prototype for something like this years ago but don't know enough frontend stuff to take it to production. The big difference is there was a certain amount of randomization to the survey prompt. And had some calendar functionality so as not to ask during scheduled meetings. And allowed you to set some top-level strategy/goals, so that the question "what are you working on now / how bout now / etc" could include a bit more context around core workstreams. Wanted to avoid typical taskmaster PM or GTD approaches that skew toward micromanagement, while still maintaining a general sense of measurable progress.
Since 2010 or so, I am using the hamster applet under Gnome. Combined with low-tech "paper", it has served me and my customers really well[1].<p>The Hamster project do not have a single homepage, thus the "search" link.<p>[0]: <a href="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=gnome+hamster+tracker" rel="nofollow">https://duckduckgo.com/?q=gnome+hamster+tracker</a><p>[1]: <a href="https://www.ceondo.com/ecte/2018/02/10-years-home-office-learned-lessons/" rel="nofollow">https://www.ceondo.com/ecte/2018/02/10-years-home-office-lea...</a>
One of the pros of the paid plan being "No more license key interruptions" concerns me, how often will it nag for payment? I understand needing to be paid but shouldn't nag screens be for trial periods leading to paid subscriptions not for "free" tiers?<p>This concern stems from the giant full screen unclosable (no X at top right) popup offering me 20% off if I buy now before I've even finished reading the landing page.
I've been using Taskwarrior in conjunction with Timewarrior to track time spent on work tasks. I used to be skeptical about it but the whole command-line first, spartan interface does wonders at keeping me focused. Better yet: it allows to set up work hours so I don't have to stop a task whenever I'm no longer working.
I made something similar using Hammerspoon on Mac. I make a list of tasks, one per line, with a time estimate. Hammerspoon will show the active task, the time elapsed, and the estimate on top of everything using canvas. It's helped me stay on task and be more realistic with my planning. If anyone is interested I can share.
Not one comment in here is positive which saddens me. In the end, HN should encourage people to build awesome solutions. But even Dropbox got negative comments when they launched on HN, so maybe this is just how things work.<p>So here's my (positive) take: Great work, thanks for sharing. I especially like the design of the page, playful but still clean. AFAIK there's a similar app from toggl themselves, what are the advantages of your solution?
Uuh no thanks. How about we trust employees and simply check the result of their work? Who cares if someone has spent N hours sitting in front of the screen, show me the results.
I already feel plenty annoyed as it is with project managers (and our Jira setup) asking three times a day how things are progressing and how many hours were spent on what. Second only to games, this has got to be the fastest multiplying application category these past few years...