An application for tracking time across numerous (coming soon) terminals. There are many utilities similar to this, but none that worked the way I wanted. Before picking one, I would suggest playing around with most if not all of them.
This project uses cli so all commands (first word following couch-time) will be auto-completed like npm.
Not yet added to npm! But in the meantime you can use npm
to insall from GIT or just checkout the code.
Before you can begin tracking time you must setup couch-time. This is done by configuring a CouchDB database:
couch-time auth http://[user]:[passwd]@[couchdb.com]/[db_name]
Not all database require authentication, but if they do we use nano's auth() method, which supports CouchDB's cookie authentication.
couch-time tag elephants
All projects begun after this command will belong to elephants. This can be overriden by using the --tag argument when beginning a project.
couch-time begin --tag elephants All words from here on will be the message
couch-time begin Use previous tag
couch-time begin All "messages " will be joined together into a single string
couch-time begin
The last one will launch $EDITOR, enabling full control over the layout.
couch-time update
Update the message of your current work item by launching $EDITOR. Any changes you make will be saved locally and published when you end this work.
couch-time end
You can do this as many times as you want. It will just continue to push out the end date.
couch-time clear
This will erase, delete, clear, pick-your-favorite-word, your current entry. Current is defined by begin and not reset on end (though the later might change).
couch-time replicate [db-name | http://[user]:[passwd]@couchdb.com/db_name]
This calls nano's replicate() method and passes in each command-line argument as the source. Please be-aware that the database being replicate to must exist. This will help ensure that you have setup security before copying any records to it.
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beginshouldendprevious work if we know about it - allow
endor createeditto update current message - handle Iris Couch being "off-line"
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beginw/out arguments should launch $EDITOR - Replicate database for backup, relocation, etc
- Bulk insert (for the day?)
- git-rebase like feature (merge, remove, edit)
- Reports, reports, and oh yeah, reports
- Generate Report for the day (
today,stats,sum)
- Generate Report for the day (
- The boss that requires time-sheets
- The projects that almost worked
- The projects that make this possible