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Overkill. Use https://timewarrior.net instead.
Timewarrior is overkill, an automatic background time tracker is even less overhead.
Timewarrior automatically tracks your time using [start][1] and [stop][2] commands. It also works like a Stopwatch[3], no start command needed.
[1] https://timewarrior.net/docs/timew-start.1.html
That's pretty cool! This is pretty simple and minimalistic. I've been working on my own different take on time tracking too ( https://maesure.com ) which asks you periodically what you're doing and builds a picture of the day from that.
Since I was procrastinating writing timesheets and it was hard to estimate the hours worked weeks back from git commits, slack and Skype history, I hacked thyme to recognize my screensaver/lockscreen, put it into crontab and now I have visual logs about time my workstation was unlocked, which Windows were active and can recreate the timesheets much more easily.
You should add a confirmation to the "CLEAR" button. It's too easy to accidentally wipe the whole log. It would also be nice to download the log as CSV -- this can be done with pure JS.
It's especially true when editing a tag. I thought I could cancel the editing by clicking the cross button, instead it deleted the log.
Somewhat off-topic, but where I work we don't need timesheets - so as an employee my main use-case for time tracking is actually to track my overtime. However most services seem to focus on the employer perspective - which is probably a reasonable product strategy.
So does anyone know a good solution for overtime tracking? Currently I'm using Nokotime in combination with a self-written node.js script that calculates my overtime per week / in total. While I love Nokotimes' UI I would consider switching if there was a tool/service that made the overtime thing easier.
This is pretty cool. We use some awful enterprise software for timesheets (Deltek) and its frustrating enough that I only enter information once per week. During the week I use my outlook calendar, creating events corresponding to projects and hours worked. A nice feature would be to export the Timelite log into an ical file or directly into calendar.