That's a great use-case! All that's needed is some UI design and work.

Thanks. That would be greatly appreciated.

I was also using the custom date range report in previous versions of gtimelog and can no longer generate a meaningful report as my reports don't conveniently fall on to one of the quantizations offered by the new gtimelog. It would be very useful to have some kind of custom report range back.

There's some WIP code in the https://github.com/gtimelog/gtimelog/tree/custom-date-range branch. Next step: figure out how to let the user input a date range. I'm thinking GtkPopovers containing GtkCalendars that pop up when you click the date entry boxes maybe?

That sounds like a good idea.

thank you for bringing this feature back.
what I like about the custom-date-report in the old version is the different formatting for the report.
The Listing of each task below the project was cutting it for me. I could then copy a section and paste it into a mail or documentation or jira task (Company uses a jira timetracker, but its not suited for my workflow) or something else.

admin:intern:

  check server hdd                            0:13
  restart webserver                           0:10
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                                                                  0:23

doku:
  write documentation                         0:03
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                                                                  0:03

orga:
  task1                                       1:00
  another task                                1:11
  something else                              0:55
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                                                                  3:06

ticket:
  Ser-1816 blaa                               0:16
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                                                                  0:16

No category:
  Optimization:                               1:40
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                                                                  1:40

Total work done this custom range: 5:28

Categories by time spent:
  orga             3:06
  No category      1:40
  admin:internal        0:23
  ticket           0:16
  doku             0:03

Speaking of Jira, my coworker wrote a script that can parse gtimelog's timelog.txt and upload the times of certain tagged entries to a Jira. It's a bit raw, but it works for us: https://github.com/ProgrammersOfVilnius/gtimelog2jira

would it be possible to optionally have a long date in the report, meaning the day/timestamp and timespan ? e.g. in the monthly report:

orga:
 task1                                       1:00    (week 10 -- 2019-03-03 -- 14:00-15:00)
 another task                                1:11    (week 11 -- 2019-03-12 -- 13:30-14:41)
 something else                              0:55    (week 11 -- 2019-03-12 -- 15:00-15:55)
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... something like that (personally it would help me, to pick out different categories/topic/tags in a monthly (or longer duration) review/retrospective and when work was done, in this period)

Thank you very much for that great tool. I love the 'simplicity' - but still it is a awesome powerful tool!

I wonder, if there are any plans to visualize reports just like clockify does for daily / monthly / yearly usage?

clockify's report samples could be a good starting point for creating some ideas, maybe?

A simple visualization for some clients/projects would be awesome and I really would love to see it...
D3.js is open source for example and could be used, I guess?
Any hints on that idea would be great!
Thank you so much again for that great tool!!!

@FONDSMATIVE can you file a separate wishlist issue for this? Let's not mix unrelated discussions in one place.

@FONDSMATIVE can you file a separate wishlist issue for this? Let's not mix unrelated discussions in one place.

Of course! Sorry!

Any progress on this feature? Seems like the ideas and patches above came close, but I don't yet see a way to achieve this in gtimelog (as a user).

No, there's been no progress on this.