Log work effortlessly
Every company uses its own time tracking program. Sometimes as an freelancer I have to fill out multiple at once. If you are lucky those time tracking tools are actually useful and do not require exceeded effort to operate.
Sadly from my experience this is not always the case...
Another inspiration was to answer the question: How long do I have to work today?
WDC has the following goals in no particular order:
- Easy to use (if possible)
- Calculate the end time of the current work day
- Log basic work information
- Start time
- End time
- A descriptive message
- Provide an easy way of grouping the logged work information
- Export the logged items
Because this is my tool, I have opted for a CLI tool that can be used on all systems. In order to achieve this WDC is written in python, which is readily available on all platforms.
TBD
The changelog can be found here
Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/dejanfajfar/wdc.git .If you have make available then simply execute the install target
make installIf make is not available on your system then you can run the underlying python command. For that you have to navigate to the directory containing the setup.py file. In that directory execute
python setup.py installIt is assumed that you have python and PIP installed
WDC is published as openly accessible package on pypi.org/project/wdc/.
Because of this it can be easilly installed using pip
$ pip install wdcIn order to make wdc faster usable from the CLI we opted to represent time and dates is a optimized format.
Details can be read at Date and Time format wiki page
Samples
25th of October 2020 ==> 2020-10-25
11:30am ==> 1130
4:30pm ==> 1630
...
WDC supports the following command:
-
wdc calc- Calculate the end time of the working day. -
wdc start- Start a new work task -
wdc end- Adds an end time to the last task of the day -
wdc list- List logged tasks -
wdc amend- Edit existing tasks -
wdc info- View information about logged tasks -
wdc export- Export tasks information