gott - go time tracker

a timewarrior alternative that fits my needs.

why not timewarrior?

• in timew i cannot add a time for a specific day while ignoring the timespan. I want to just add X hours to it without careing about the conrete time.
• in timew i cannot add project or reference information from taskwarrior. The annotation method is somehow weird.

Usage

start

You can just begin with tracking your time by starting the tracking:

$ gott start [add your message here [project:projectname] [+tag01 +tag02] [ref:EXTERNAL_ID]

Example:

$ gott start writing documentation for gott project:gott.docs +docs ref:ID-1337
tracking writing documentation for gott -- proj:gott.docs -- docs -- ref:ID-1337
    Started          01-14 22:44
    Current (mins)   00:00
    Total   (today)  00:01

The status shows the current tracking, including project, tags and reference. It also shows when the current tracking started, the currently trackt timespan and the summed up timespan for the current day.

annotate

If you want to add some annotation to the running interval, use the annotate subcommand:

$ gott annotate +another-tag
tracking writing documentation for gott -- proj:gott.docs -- docs, another-tag -- ref:ID-1337
    Started          01-14 22:44
    Current (mins)   00:00
    Total   (today)  00:tag

stop

To stop the current interval use the stop subcommand. It shows the status of the stopped, just collected interval.

$ gott stop
tracking writing documentation for gott -- proj:gott.docs -- docs, another-tag -- ref:ID-1337
    Started          01-14 22:44
    Stopped          01-14 22:44
    Current (mins)   00:05
    Total   (today)  00:06

continue

To restart work on the latest task you can just restart an interval with the same config. You can use the continue subcommand for this.

$ gott continue
tracking writing documentation for gott -- proj:gott.docs -- docs, another-tag -- ref:ID-1337
    Started          01-14 22:50
    Current (mins)   00:00
    Total   (today)  00:06

cancel

If you started an interval by mistake or have another reason to cancel some interval and discard the current interval you can use the cancel subcommand.

$ gott cancel

summary

The summary command prints out the current collection state. By default it only prints the today's collected intervals. You can change this by filtering with the keywords you remember from Taskwarror: :today, :yesterday, :week, :month, :all or a date filter with YYYY-MM-DD.

$ gott summary :today
CWEEK  DAY    BEGIN  END    DURATION  PROJECT  TAG                ANNOTATION
-----  ---    -----  ---    --------  -------  ---                ----------
2      01-14  22:44  22:50  00:06     gott     docs, another-tag  writing gott documentation
              22:55  23:00  00:05     gott     docs, another-tag  writing gott documentation
                     day =  00:11
              wk =          00:11°

track

To add a missing interval to a given day. You can use the track subcommand for this.

$ go track 2022-11-20 3h -- bake a cake 

Magic names can be used here, too:

$ go track :today 3h -- bake a cake 
$ go track :yesterday 3h -- bake a bread

edit

If you want to bulk edit some interval you can use the edit subcommand. It exports the given filter to a text file and opens it up in your $EDITOR. When closing the changes become applied in bulk.

$ go edit :today

Configuration

gott uses viper for configuration management. With its help it checks your $HOME and the folder along the gott binary for a .gottrc file with the possible endings: ini, json or yml.

Configkey	Description
databasename	The name and location of the database file.