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Simple command line timetracker

Language: Ruby

I have used TimeTrap (https://github.com/samg/timetrap) for years. I have it installed on a dev/utility server I have hosted in the cloud. I use JuiceSSH on my android phone to run quick check in and check out scripts. While I'm at my workstation I have a terminal open that is SSHed into my VM. One of the panels in tmux is using a watch command to monitor my time. Purely just a time tracking function so I can't generate invoices or anything like that.
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, due to the simple and memorable syntax.

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.

I guess both philosophies have different strengths and weaknesses, depending on what is important to you.

if anyone wants a nice CLI tool then Timetrap is pretty awesome, been using it for years.

https://github.com/samg/timetrap

I recently started using Timetrap ( https://github.com/samg/timetrap) and find fantastic. Covers a lot of corner cases while still being incredibly simple to use.
I use TimeTrap (https://github.com/samg/timetrap) for keeping track of my time and pen/paper (Bullet Journal) for my work journal. In TimeTrap, I give the name of my current task in the notes and that will point me towards specific notes in my notebook.
I have tried various solutions and finally decided on this one: https://github.com/samg/timetrap
I use timetrap. It's a simple commandline tool. It's awesome: https://github.com/samg/timetrap
I didn't end up trying it, but I thought this looked good (and appears to be recently maintained):

https://github.com/samg/timetrap/

I found it best to keep it simple when you're just a one-man show. I use Google docs to keep track of requirements/stories and to track time I use https://github.com/samg/timetrap.