I don’t like tracking my time. Marking down the start and end times of a task and finding the difference is annoying. Although you can easily redirect the output of “date” to a file, you still have to calculate the difference. So I wrote something to do it for me. This sort of thing has been done before, but I didn’t know about the other solutions before making mine. I call it “tasktimes”. It’s written in C and you can get it on GitHub. If you’re on Windows and don’t have a C compiler, you might try the Tiny C Compiler.
From the command-line, you simply type:
task "TPS reports"
to start a task and later on type:
task off
to complete it. To get the report, type:
task times
and you’ll get something like:
--- Misc ---
2012/12/03 09:01:12 Mo ( 8:31:42) TPS reports
Total 8:31:42
After writing tasktimes, I thought I’d try making a simpler program to let you note whether you completed a certain task each day. Again, it’s easy to save dates to a file, but I wanted the analysis portion. It’s basically a “don’t break the chain“-style motivational program called “did”. It can also be found on GitHub and is also written in C.
From the command-line, you simply type:
did code
to log a task or
did code yest
to log a task done yesterday. Just typing “did” will give you the report.
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