golang-time-tracker

Little app for tracking how much work I do in a day

You can start the server with:

t serve &

You can start watching 'dir' for writes with:

t watch dir &

You can see the time you've spend working with:

$ t

or

$ t week

Finally, you can query the server manually with:

curl \
  --unix-socket ${HOME}/.time-tracker/sock \
  http://unix/${HOME}/.time-tracker/sock/intervals

Design

Time-tracker has three parts:

1. A CLI (completely stateless)
2. A local watcher daemon/API server (state = set of inotify FDs)
3. A SQL database (set of writes, and set of watched directories)

The CLI (1) communicates with the watcher daemon (2) via HTTP over a local socket. Depending on the nature of the call, the watcher daemon can:

• Begin watching a local directory (by writing it to the DB as a directory that needs to be watched, and then installing inotify watches on it and its subdirectories)
  • When writes do occur, they're written to the SQL database
• Report "work intervals" (i.e. periods of time in which writes were happening)