CLTT

Command Line Time Tracker.

What am I working on?

What have I done today?

What did I do yesterday?

What did I do last week?

What is it?

A simple cli utility for keeping track of all the shit you do during your day.

At its core it's a way to respond intelligently the next time your PM asks "What have you been working on today?" Drop into your terminal, run cltt day, and have a solid answer. Or even tougher, "What did you do yesterday?" Answer: cltt day yesterday.

It has a number of tools for browsing through your days and weeks, and you can easily export your timesheets with a single command.

What can it do?

Basic usage:

• Create a project: cltt add "Cltt Widgets"
• Start a timer: cltt start "Cltt Widgets" or just cltt start and follow the prompts
• Add some comments to the timer you are working on: cltt comment "Working on feature A"
• Stop a timer: cltt stop
• Review all your hard work: cltt day or cltt week

Browsing:

What have I done today (or X days ago)?

• See what you've done today: cltt day
• See what you did yesterday cltt day yesterday
• See what you did X number of days ago cltt day "4 days ago
• cltt day also supports pagination for you to browse through your days.

What have I done this week (or X weeks ago)?

• See what you've done for the current week: cltt week
• See what you did last week cltt day week "last week"
• See what you did X number of weeks ago cltt week "4 weeks ago"
• cltt week also supports pagination for you to browse through your weeks.

Exporting timesheets

• Export timesheet for current week: cltt export
• Export timesheet for X weeks ago: cltt export "last week"

Other stuff you can do

• Forget to start a timer? No problem: cltt start [project ID] "45 minutes ago"
• Forget to stop a timer? No problem: cltt stop "2 hours ago"
• Forget to log some times yesterday (or even last week)? Add new time entries on the fly cltt add-time and follow the prompts
• Display all available commands: cltt list
• Get help on a specific command: cltt help add-time
• Show all times logged for a specific project: cltt times
• Archive & restore projects: cltt archive and cltt restore

How do I use it?

Clone the repo: git clone git@github.com:badcrocodile/clitt.git

Symlink cltt to somewhere in your $PATH: ln -s /path/to/clitt/cltt /somewhere/in/your/path/cltt

Initialize the database: cltt

Check the time that php-cli extension is available by running this in a console, adjust as necessary: php -r "echo strftime('%c');"

Create a project: cltt add or cltt add "Project Name"

Start a timer: cltt start or cltt start [project ID].

• Forget to start a timer? Pass a 3rd argument representing when the timer should have been started: cltt start [project ID] "15 minutes ago".
• Any time that can be parsed by php's strtotime function will work.

Add comments to the active timer: cltt comment "Cleaning up database"

Stop your timer: cltt stop.

• Forget to stop a timer? Pass a second argument representing when the timer should have been stopped: cltt stop "1 hour ago"
• Any time that can be parsed by php's strtotime will work.

Edit a time entry: cltt edit [time entry ID].

• Retrieve a list of time entry ID's using cltt times
• The format for the new time is pretty flexible. 11:32pm or 11:32 pm or 11:32PM or 11:32pm. It's all the same.

Archive a project: cltt archive [ID] or cltt archive

Restore a project: cltt restore [ID] or cltt restore

Show active projects: cltt show

Show archived projects: cltt show -a, --archived

See what project is currently being timed: cltt running or cltt status

Add a new time entry on-the-fly: cltt add-time

List entries for a specific project: cltt times or cltt times [ID]

List entries for the day: cltt day

• A second parameter can be used to specify which day. Examples being "yesterday", "last saturday", etc
• Use the prompts to go back/forward in time.
• 'e' will export the currently displayed day timesheet

List entries for the week: cltt week

• A second parameter can be used to specify which day/week. Examples being "last week", "2 weeks ago", etc
• Use the prompts to go back/forward in time.
• 'e' will export the currently displayed week timesheet

Export entries: cltt export or cltt export "last week", etc

• You can also use the cltt week interface to browse back and forth and execute the 'Export' command (e) from the displayed week.

TODO

• User preferences (timezones, export file location)
• Export to Google Sheets?
• Desktop notifications