Time tracking software
I feel a need to keep an eye on what the hell I’m doing at work, and
how long time I spend doing it. I know that there are lots of apps
around which help you track time spent on projects, but most of them
are graphical apps. I wanted a console app that could live in my
screen session so that I could work from home and still have a
totalitarian view of what I was doing at any given point in time.
A quick trawl through Freshmeat didn’t turn up anything other than the aforementioned graphical apps, so I happily sat down and started work on my own, using my recently acquired knowledge of Perl’s terminal capabilities. I wanted a full-screen app that I would just press a button in and switch tasks.
While writing this, I needed a trivial time conversion that I had
forgotten. While googling for it, I discovered a time tracking app
written in Perl that used it for its own purposes:
tt. Ironic, huh? The app
isn’t exactly what I envisioned, but it’s more full-featured than
mine, so I’ll give it a try. Otherwise I’ll develop my own app
further.
Posted on Sunday, 2005-02-27,
in the comp category.
