You should write a dock-app interface to "gtt" (Gnome Time Tracker)
JW
At 02:31 AM 9/12/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>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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