Crick, a time-tracker dashboard, goes open-source
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Re: Crick, a time-tracker dashboard, goes open-source
#2Hi! I am Will, co-author of the blog post and tool(s).
A long time ago, we asked our intern to develop a time tracker as a CLI, given that we spend most of our time in the terminal and also to give him something fun to do. He designed a great time tracker that we now use daily: Watson (https://github.com/TailorDev/Watson).
Our business involves billing clients per days (7h a day). Watson was our source of truth but sometimes we needed to aggregate reports of different developers. Crick (https://github.com/TailorDev/crick) to the rescue!
These open source tools were part of a much bigger project that never took off. Watson was open source per se but we thought we could maybe create Crick as a paying-product. We conducted interviews and decided not to do that: nobody really needed such a tool. Well. We needed it so we developed it and decided to open source it.
Re: Crick, a time-tracker dashboard, goes open-source
#3Hi! I am Will, co-author of the blog post and tool(s). A long time ago, we asked our intern to develop a time tracker as a CLI, given that we spend most of our time in the terminal and also to give him something fun to do. He designed a great time tracker that we now use daily: Watson ( https://github.com/TailorDev/Watson ). Our business involves billing clients per days (7h a day). Watson was our source of truth but…
Hey would you mind providing some sort of demo of crick? After looking through the article, repo,etc and heading to app.crick.io I can't see what it looks like for the life of me...
Re: Crick, a time-tracker dashboard, goes open-source
#4Hi! I am Will, co-author of the blog post and tool(s). A long time ago, we asked our intern to develop a time tracker as a CLI, given that we spend most of our time in the terminal and also to give him something fun to do. He designed a great time tracker that we now use daily: Watson ( https://github.com/TailorDev/Watson ). Our business involves billing clients per days (7h a day). Watson was our source of truth but…
Hey would you mind providing some sort of demo of crick? After looking through the article, repo,etc and heading to app.crick.io I can't see what it looks like for the life of me...
Good point! In a previous article, we do have a few Gifs: https://tailordev.fr/blog/2017/06/07/le-lab-5-crick-a-backen....
Edit: I added a Gif on the (GitHub) README too: https://github.com/TailorDev/crick.
Re: Crick, a time-tracker dashboard, goes open-source
#5The first link to "Crick" seems to take me to a "Page not found" page(It links https://tailordev.fr/blog/2017/08/02/crick-goes-open-source/... probably instead of https://app.crick.io/
Re: Crick, a time-tracker dashboard, goes open-source
#6The first link to "Crick" seems to take me to a "Page not found" page(It links https://tailordev.fr/blog/2017/08/02/crick-goes-open-source/... probably instead of https://app.crick.io/
Thanks, this should be fixed now!
Re: Crick, a time-tracker dashboard, goes open-source
#7Hi! I am Will, co-author of the blog post and tool(s). A long time ago, we asked our intern to develop a time tracker as a CLI, given that we spend most of our time in the terminal and also to give him something fun to do. He designed a great time tracker that we now use daily: Watson ( https://github.com/TailorDev/Watson ). Our business involves billing clients per days (7h a day). Watson was our source of truth but…
Hey would you mind providing some sort of demo of crick? After looking through the article, repo,etc and heading to app.crick.io I can't see what it looks like for the life of me...
Yeah, trying to get an understanding / demo of it... the site wants an account created first.
(For me) that's a "not going to happen" until after I've seen what it looks like and have some idea whether I'd find it useful. :)
EDIT - There's a quick visual animated gif of it on the GitHub repo README. It would probably be useful to have that (or similar) on the front page of the app.crick.io website too for not-logged-in users. :)
Re: Crick, a time-tracker dashboard, goes open-source
#8Watson reminds me of Timewarrior. https://taskwarrior.org/docs/timewarrior/
Re: Crick, a time-tracker dashboard, goes open-source
#9Watson reminds me of Timewarrior. https://taskwarrior.org/docs/timewarrior/
Hi! Julien, I am a co-author of crick/watson. You are totally right, and you're not the first one to mention it. Note that some people have integrated taskwarrior with Watson, see https://github.com/yloiseau/watson-utils#on-modify-watsonpy
Best.
Re: Crick, a time-tracker dashboard, goes open-source
#10Slightly off topic and with respect to both the authors, and Philip Greenspun:
"Any sufficiently complicated time-tracking program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Org mode."