Daze is a day-based time-tracking command line utility.
My use for it (and therefore a lot of the terminology) is to track which days I'm working, in which state, or why I'm not.
My goal was to minimize the chance I would miss a day, have stats available for the year and month, and make easy to adjust errors.
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Daily entry is done by means of cron job that checks every 15 minutes from 9am-8pm whether I've logged a location yet. If not, it uses dialog boxes to ask me where I'm working and logs it. There's a second cron job that creates a backup of the log file every few days. This is primarily because I wanted to have a safety system while developing that would save me from a bug that deleted entries, for instance. But it seems like a mildly useful enough feature that I haven't deleted it.
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Statistics can be checked in a "summary" or "calendar" view.
Summary lists number of days in each location, the earliest and latest dates in the logs, and whether any dates are missing.
It also has a visual calendar mode.
- Errors are easy to find with the calendar/summary mode and can be fixed through the interface by just doing a
daze add weekend 2016-04-09, for instance. Additionally, the storage format is a json that makes for very easy manual editing.
$ daze add 2016-06-15 guilford
$ daze summary
### Improvements
- [ ] Implement a good frontend interface!
- [ ] Turns out there's a calendar module! Should definitely be used for my cal function.
- [ ] Build the setup function (create a ~/.daze directory with a log, backups, and settings, possibly cron job)
- [ ] Add a cli backup function
- [ ] Refactor out the apple dialogs
- [ ] Write up install instructions
- [ ] Implement the remove date function