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Re: Ask HN: What are good self hosted time tracking software for consultants?

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Post by jcpst »

jolmg wrote: post #7

org-mode in Emacs. On a headline representing a task or event, `C-c C-x C-i` to clock-in, `C-c C-x C-o` to clock-out. The agenda view includes what you've clocked in to during each day, and from it, `R` can give you a clock report for the timeframe that the agenda view is showing.

Clocking in an out of any headline in the document tree is a great feature.

Re: Ask HN: What are good self hosted time tracking software for consultants?

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Post by fhars »

cranium wrote: post #44
jolmg wrote: post #7

org-mode in Emacs. On a headline representing a task or event, `C-c C-x C-i` to clock-in, `C-c C-x C-o` to clock-out. The agenda view includes what you've clocked in to during each day, and from it, `R` can give you a clock report for the timeframe that the agenda view is showing.

I also use org to clock my hours. The clocktable makes it even better to aggregate/report your hours. You can look at a 1-month block separated by week (I report my hours weekly) with the granularity you want. A very versatile tool! https://orgmode.org/manual/The-clock-table.html

And then you can give each headline a uniq id, write some elisp, call (server-start) and add a lot of

    org-protocol://clock-in?id=12345678-90ab-cdef-afb2-91ad9c6049c9
actions to your StreamDeck to clock into tasks without actually having to find them in your org file.

Re: Ask HN: What are good self hosted time tracking software for consultants?

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Post by quantaseed »

I use aTimeLogger app to track my time then I email myself a CSV report from the app and use Google Sheets to create the invoice using a couple simple formulas and an invoice template I made.

I paste the data from the email into a new copy of the invoice template and it mostly does everything I need. Then I download it as a PDF and send it.

I invoice two to four companies per month. Takes me less than 1/2 hour usually.

But I came here to find out if there was a nice self-hosted alternative.

Re: Ask HN: What are good self hosted time tracking software for consultants?

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Post by dr_kiszonka »

nikslor wrote: post #45

We run a consulting business and created the following tool which may be useful: https://github.com/adfinis/timed-backend https://github.com/adfinis/timed-frontend

I might be missing something, but on GitHub Mobile I can't see any screenshots, examples, or links to information about what this software does.

Re: Ask HN: What are good self hosted time tracking software for consultants?

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Post by nottorp »

lolinder wrote: post #48
nottorp wrote: post #6

Any spreadsheet :) The advantage being that you can always stick a random formula in for whatever you want to find out right now and you didnt need before. It wont generate your invoices But Î find that a minor problem. How many customers do you invoice per month anyway?

With a few intermediate sheets and FILTER, UNIQUE, SUMIFS, and VLOOKUP, you can have it generate invoices too.

I use SUMIF at least. But i paste the totals in word processor docs.

It's my 1st of the month morning coffee ritual. Pretty good for morale.

Re: Ask HN: What are good self hosted time tracking software for consultants?

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Post by freeplay »

bruderstein wrote: post #26

timewarrior.org Not associated, but a big fan. Console based, so easily scriptable. Use it not for consulting but time tracking between projects.

Another vote for TimeWarrior.

As a huge bonus, if you started using or currently use TaskWarrior (console based task management), it integrates seamlessly and will track time spent on a task for you.

It's an awesome, open source, extremely robust, and well thought out little ecosystem.

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