ttt

Timeless Time Tracking

Tracking

$ ttt <project> [task] <action> [notes...]

Project can be anything, action is one of: start, end, estimate=<duration>. start and end are obvious, with the caveat that "ending" may be any of "pausing with the intent of starting later", "finished", "done for the day", etc. estimate=<duration> is special and indicates that you're estimating the amount of work to be done on the task (or today, if the task is not specified) to be <duration>. That duration should be expressed in short form, e.g. 3h or 30m or 3/4h or 1h15m etc.

The format for task is free-form, but the convention is that subtasks are delimited with a .. I.e. task.subtask or task.subtask.item.

Anything else passed to the command is considered part of the free-form notes.

What it does

All that command does is record (either locally using files or remotely to a server as configured) all the information you've given it and the exact time you've run it.

You can't record things in the past, nor can you in the future. The command doesn't even care if you've already got a task "running" or if you're going over your estimate, or if you've already set an estimate. It just records a time and a payload of data.

And then what?

The format is uber simple, so you can build your own reporting tools to make this useful. For now this all falls on you, but as soon as we've got time we'll add some demos and standard tools here.

Why Timeless?

Most time tracking systems show a timer running up, or allow you to enter times. This doesn't. It records the time itself and never shows it to you immediately. I've found this increases productivity because you stop caring about the time you spend and instead focus on the work. When you review your day or week, then you can see how you've done, but not before.