Show HN: Thyme, a simple CLI to measure human time and focus

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Post by gonedo » Tue, Aug 16, 2016, 4:52 PM UTC

Show HN: Thyme, a simple CLI to measure human time and focus
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Post by beliu » Tue, Aug 16, 2016, 5:32 PM UTC

Creator of Thyme here. I made it track my own application usage and find possible interventions to boost my productivity. Happy to answer any questions and hope you find it useful!

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Aug 16, 2016, 5:32 PM UTC

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Post by pkmishra » Tue, Aug 16, 2016, 6:11 PM UTC

How do you install it on Mac OSX?

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Post by beliu » Tue, Aug 16, 2016, 6:16 PM UTC

pkmishra wrote: post #4

How do you install it on Mac OSX?

You can find instructions in the README here: https://github.com/sourcegraph/thyme. But to summarize:

0. Install Go (https://golang.org/doc/install?download=go1.7.darwin-amd64.p...)

1. `go get -u github.com/sourcegraph/thyme/cmd/thyme`

2. `thyme dep`

3. Follow the instructions printed by `thyme dep`

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Post by vividmind » Tue, Aug 16, 2016, 6:34 PM UTC

Is there a similar tool for windows?

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Post by diggan » Tue, Aug 16, 2016, 6:40 PM UTC

Looks like a nice project but me myself prefers Wakatime that breaks down the time between project (basically git sources you open in your editor) rather than all the application opens. Then I can see what project I'm spending too much/little time at and balance myself.

Dashboard looks something like this: http://imgur.com/a/jdRct

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Post by xbryanx » Tue, Aug 16, 2016, 7:34 PM UTC

I'm excited to try this out. It'll be fun to compare to some of the data I get by using RescueTime[1].

[1] - https://www.rescuetime.com/

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Post by mdaniel » Tue, Aug 16, 2016, 8:01 PM UTC

beliu wrote: post #5

pkmishra wrote: post #4

How do you install it on Mac OSX?

You can find instructions in the README here: https://github.com/sourcegraph/thyme . But to summarize: 0. Install Go ( https://golang.org/doc/install?download=go1.7.darwin-amd64.p... ) 1. `go get -u github.com/sourcegraph/thyme/cmd/thyme` 2. `thyme dep` 3. Follow the instructions printed by `thyme dep`

For those on OSX, using Homebrew to install go is a far nicer experience, in addition to making it easier to keep things up-to-date. http://brew.sh then `brew install go` will move you past step 0, although I somehow thought one had to specify a `GOPATH` in order to use `go get`:

    $ go get -u github.com/sourcegraph/thyme/cmd/thyme
    package github.com/sourcegraph/thyme/cmd/thyme: cannot download, $GOPATH not set. For more details see: go help gopath

meaning there is a step 0.5 of `export GOPATH=/some/place/with/a/lot/of/disk/space` and (again, as I understand it) you'll want `$GOPATH/bin` in your `$PATH` or step 2 will not behave as expected.

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Post by pweissbrod » Tue, Aug 16, 2016, 9:02 PM UTC

kindly add remarks that this is not compatible with windows