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Working on a FOSS tool to convert raw work time data into a clean report for your boss or client. Any interest?
(lemmy.sdf.org)
It's almost done (it would take one or two weeks to clean it up for FOSS release). It's a CLI tool. It works great for my use case, but I'm wondering if there's any interest in a tool like this.
Say you have a simple time-tracking tool that tracks what you do daily. The only problem is that there are gaps and whatnot, which might not look nice if you need to send it to someone else. This tool fixes pretty much all of that.
Main format is a JSON with a "description", and either "duration" or a "start"/"end" pair. It supports the Timewarrior format out of the box (CLI Time tracking tool).
As someone who works atrocius times of their own volition & has to create a clean timesheet every end of the month, this is a great idea -buyt there are too many special rules to consider imo - also I never properly track time (keep forgetting) but reconstruct work times from emails, chats & calendar entries :)
Could have some kind of floating timer window/widget in your bar so you don't forget
The problem is working on different computers & sometimes switching back and forth between private time and work time. That'd require actual button presses or something to "clock" in/out
Ah I see. At my previous company we developed an in house clock in/out system that I always forgot to use. Never did but I wanted to build a big red button with an Arduino that clocked me in and out with the API and showed a timer
Big red button might help, but when I'm "in the zone" with coding, normally I forget everything around me :) One moment I'll be browsing the web on my leisure time, and then I have an idea for one of my work projects, switch to that and "wake up" 8 hours later with lots of stuff done and no idea when I "clocked in" - that's usually when I do "ls -lR" on my project folders and check file timestamps :D
This makes me glad not to be on the clock, I suck at remembering to do that stuff.
Though I tend to hyper focus on one thing for 4 or 5 hours at a time anyway