ti - A silly simple time tracker

ti is a small command line time tracking application. Simple basic usage looks like this

$ ti on my-project
$ ti fin

You can also give it human-readable times.

$ ti on my-project 30mins ago

ti sports many other cool features. See the project page for more details.

Wat?

ti is a simple command line time tracker. It has been completely re-written in python (from being a bash script) and has (almost) complete test coverage. It is inspired by timed, which is a nice project and you should check out if you don't like ti. It also takes inspiration from the simplicity of t.

If a time tracker tool makes me think for more than 3-5 seconds, I lose my line of thought and forget what I was doing. This is why I created ti. With ti, you'll be as fast as you can type, which you should be good with anyway.

The most important part about ti is that it provides just a few commands to manage your time tracking and gets out of your way. All data is saved in a JSON file (~/.ti-sheet, can be changed by setting $SHEET_FILE) for easy access to whatever you need to do. Some ideas,

Read your json file to generate beautiful html reports.
Build monthly statistics based on tags or the tasks themselves.
Read the currently working project and make it show up in your terminal prompt. May be even with how long you've been on it. (!!!)

Its your data.

Oh and by the way, the source is a fairly small python script, so if you know python, you may want to skim over it to get a better feel of how it works.

Note: If you have used the previous bash version of ti, which was horribly tied up to only work on linux, you might notice the lack of plugins in this python version. I am not really missing them, so I might not add them. If anyone has any interesting use cases for it, I'm willing to consider.

Usage

Here's the minimal usage style:

$ ti on my-project
Start working on my-project.

$ ti status
You have been working on my-project for less than a minute.

$ ti fin
So you stopped working on my-project.

on and fin can take a time (format described further down) at which to apply the action.

$ ti on another-project 2 hours ago
Start working on another-project.

$ ti s
You have been working on another-project for about 2 hours.

$ ti fin 30 minutes ago
So you stopped working on another-project.

Also illustrating in the previous example is short aliases of all commands, their first letter. Like, s for status, o for on, f for fin, etc.

Put brief notes on what you've been doing.

$ ti note waiting for Napoleon to take over the world
$ ti n another simple note for demo purposes

Tag your activities for fun and profit.

$ ti tag imp

Time format

Currently only the following are recognized. If there is something that is not handled, but should be, please open an issue about it or a pull request (function in question is parse_time)

n seconds ago can be written as:
- nseconds ago
- nsecond ago
- nsecs ago
- nsec ago
- ns ago
- a in place of n in all above cases, to mean 1 second.
- Eg., 10s ago, a sec ago 25 seconds ago, 25seconds ago.
n minutes ago can be written as:
- nminutes ago
- nminute ago
- nmins ago
- nmin ago
- a in place of n in all above cases, to mean 1 minute.
- Eg., 5mins ago, a minute ago, 10 minutes ago.
n hours ago can be written as:
- nhours ago
- nhour ago
- nhrs ago
- nhr ago
- a or an in place of n in all above cases, to mean 1 hour.
- Eg., an hour ago, an hr ago, 2hrs ago.

Where n is an arbitrary number and any number of spaces between n and the time unit are allowed.

Status

The project is beta. If you find any bug or have any feedback, please do open an issue on Github issues.

Gimme!

You can download ti from the source on github. Put it somewhere in your $PATH and make sure it has executable permissions and you should be able to use it just fine.

Who?

Created and fed by Shrikant Sharat (@sharat87). To get in touch, ping me on twitter or email.

License

MIT License.

blaskovic / ti