Time tracking.
I have never been able to do it. I really, really need to start, like,
last week.
I'm hoping that technology can solve my problems, but so far google has given
me no cause for hope.
What I'd like is a time tracking tool that will take as little of my own time
and effort as possible to use. Something with a user interface about as
complicated as a chess clock is what I'm after.
I switch between tasks constantly; most of them involve the %$#@& Linux box
one way or another; so it _should_ be simple for me to just keep a log open
and take good notes. One would think.
But somehow it just never happens. So I'm hoping that if I can find/make
something that's _really_ easy to use, and which I can just leave stuck to
my desktop, to stare at as neurotically as I stare at my CPU monitors, and
to thump whenever I switch desktops... maybe I'd actually use the thing.
If I were to write this thing myself, I'd probably make something like a
GNOME- or Windowmaker-style docked app; something tiny that could optionally
pop up a larger interface for when you actually want to pay attention to it
(config time, defining new tasks, viewing logs and stats, etc.) but for which
the normal mode of operation would be to mouse over, enter a keyboard code
or quick mouse sequence selecting the task to switch to, mouse away, and
we're off to the next thing.
That would be ideal, I think. Close to that is great.
Keen extra feature would be the ability to write notes or store arbitrary data
and have that keyed to a moment in time. Shouldn't be too tough to tack that
sort of functionality on to a system that already sits and watches the clock
for you.
Anyhow. Open to any kind of suggestions, and if this is an unmet need maybe
it's time I quit grousing and wrote some code.
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