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It's almost done (it would take one or two weeks to clean it up for FOSS release). It's a CLI tool. It works great for my use case, but I'm wondering if there's any interest in a tool like this.

Say you have a simple time-tracking tool that tracks what you do daily. The only problem is that there are gaps and whatnot, which might not look nice if you need to send it to someone else. This tool fixes pretty much all of that.

Main format is a JSON with a "description", and either "duration" or a "start"/"end" pair. It supports the Timewarrior format out of the box (CLI Time tracking tool).

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 18 hours ago

OT: What program are these diagrams made with? I've seen them floating around recently and really like the looks of them.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 17 hours ago

It's Exclidraw (dark mode)

[-] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

Thanks! I use Excalidraw occasionally, but only in light mode. Derp.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago

Looks like excalidraw to me, but not sure!

[-] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

This looks like draw.io to me, but I could be wrong.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Outputting clean reports is one thing, but "normalizing" the time to make it look better, or as though I'm more busy, is something else entirely. I appreciate the effort, but this tool has the very real potential to get a contractor or employee sued for time fraud. I highly recommend against normalization of time data. The contractor either worked a full 30 or s/he didn't. It's black and white. Saying s/he worked for 30 when s/he worked for 25 is a lie, and subject to lawsuits and further legal action.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 21 hours ago

"they" uses the same number of characters as "s/he" and flows more naturally

[-] [email protected] 11 points 20 hours ago

I'm not sure why "they" isn't used more often to refer to the unknown. This is what we were taught back home when we learned English.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago

Sure, sure. But s/he reading this might appreciate the use of special characters to improve his/her password entropy.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 21 hours ago

I just say I worked X hours per day, above my log entries describing what I did that day. Why do they need anything more than that?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Sometimes I work on a larger project that is split up in different sub projects, that were sold separately and are maybe paid by different departments. So I need to at least spilt those up.
Also it's often easier to follow what exactly was done, when I differentiate more between my tasks and not just put a collective line there - just like small commits are more helpful than one large one.

But maybe I understood you wrong...?

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

This sounds really cool. I have actually made something similar (unpublished and quite hacky though).

I work as a self-employed contractor and must report my times in varying standardised formats, depending on the client or agency I am working with. My input data comes from TimeWarrior (like yours) and I usually just output CSV data so I can copy-paste that into a provided excel template.

Quantizing the data is usually the most essential step as the templates often restrict accuracy. I find it strange that many of the comments here presume this kind of transformation to be fraudulent.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

I do my time tracking in org-mode, and export it to JIRA once a day or so. It is quite a specific/tailored setup, written in a mix of elisp and, well, org-mode (specific names and tags are used to configure some settings), but I'd love to look at this tool to see if I can extend my workflow by using it for the "massaging into a nicer shape" part. I might end up writing some extensions for either side (org-mode input format and JIRA REST calls output format).

My current tooling quantizes everything by rounding start and end times to the nearest full 15 minutes, and starting a new task at the end time of the previous one when clocking in, so that my team lead does not have to report so many fractions of hours to higher layers.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

As someone who works atrocius times of their own volition & has to create a clean timesheet every end of the month, this is a great idea -buyt there are too many special rules to consider imo - also I never properly track time (keep forgetting) but reconstruct work times from emails, chats & calendar entries :)

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Could have some kind of floating timer window/widget in your bar so you don't forget

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

The problem is working on different computers & sometimes switching back and forth between private time and work time. That'd require actual button presses or something to "clock" in/out

[-] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

Ah I see. At my previous company we developed an in house clock in/out system that I always forgot to use. Never did but I wanted to build a big red button with an Arduino that clocked me in and out with the API and showed a timer

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

I don't get it.

Where's Saddam?

I'll head back to linuxmemes now.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Lmao, its everywhere now isnt it

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Idk what it is so I guess it's not everywhere.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Org mode has a time tracking feature, dunno about report generation.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

So this requires some kind of existing tracking software? Are there existing FOSS options for that part?

My current job doesn't need time tracking (yet?, some of my work is for the sister company) but a job I worked before had us clock in and out for specific projects on a computer, but the subscription ended and we were using a UI glitch to continue using it and literally cheat engine to make it still export the files for the office to use.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

An existing FOSS time tracking software I like is Timewarrior (CLI)

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Kimai is a great option

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I would use it, let me know if you need any testing or feedback. What is it written in?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago
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