dcs-worklog 0.0.18

Simple CLI tool to log work and projects

Worklog - Simple CLI util to track work hours

Worklog is a simple and straight-forward tool to track working times via CLI. It uses a plain text file as it's storage backend which makes it easy to process the logged information with other tools.

Getting started

You need to have Python >= 3.6 installed.

pip install dcs-worklog

Command Line Interface (CLI)

The tool registers itself as a CLI tool with the name wl (short for worklog).

It provides the basic commands to start and stop tracking work times.

wl commit start    # starts a new work session
wl commit stop     # stops a running session

It's also possible to give a time offset to the current time:

wl commit start --offset-minutes 5
wl commit stop --offset-minutes -5

Learn about all options by using the --help flag for any command:

wl commit --help   # show more options

To see how the current status of the worklog use the status command:

$ wl status

Status         : Tracking on
Total time     : 07:49:40 ( 98%)
Remaining time : 00:10:20 (  2%)
Overtime       : 00:00:00 (  0%)
End of work    : 17:18:27

To see historical entries use the log command:

wl log             # shows the last 10 records (latest first)
wl log --all       # shows all records  (latest first)

Configuration

By default the log file is written to ~/.worklog. The format is CSV with pipe symbols (|) as delimiters.

A working day is configured to have 8 hours. 2 hours are set as a (soft) limit for overtime.

This configuration can be changed by creating a config file in ~/.config/worklog/config. Partial changes are allowed and are merged with the default configuration.

An example customized configuration could be the following file:

[workday]
hours_target = 8.5
hours_max = 12

Integration in task bars

tbd

wl status --fmt '{status} | {remaining_time} (percentage}%'

Sanity check

The current log file can be sanity-checked with the doctor command. In case entries are missing the doctor command will tell so:

$ wl doctor
ERROR:worklog:Date 2020-04-08 has no stop entry.

Development

Clone this repository and install the development version:

pip install -e ".[testing]"

Run tests via

pytest worklog/

Create a release

To create a release, update the version number in setup.py first. Then execute the following commands:

python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
twine upload --skip-existing -r pypi dist/*

Troubleshooting

If you are behind a proxy the installation might not work. In this case try to setup the proxy via the --proxy flag:

pip install --proxy=http://localhost:3128 dcs-worklog