Show HN: A personal log from the command line

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>job add --tag email --tag o email

I would never compel myself to document my day in such detail, if I had to type that (or even the short versions) for every entry.

I actually use a similar system, but it's no more than a short shell script that 1) is triggered by a hotkey and 2) gives me a little window to type my activity in. Making the impedance trivially low is key.

I do because I need this level of detail in my time sheet. `job r -t e` comes pretty quickly off the fingers if you type it every day.

Any thoughts on backing up the logs? I don't want to put my personal Dropbox on my work machine

I'm afraid I don't have any useful thoughts. It's just a file. The log I've been keeping since October of 2014 has about 19,000 lines in it now and is just short of a megabyte. Gzip takes it down to 200K. So it's a pretty easy file to move about.

The whole point is to ignore the log file itself, though, in daily use. I wouldn't want to be porting it around on a thumb drive every day. That being said, you can override the default location with the --directory option. Maybe this plus an alias so you don't have to type the whole path in every time.

Maybe I've misunderstood your question.

How about plain old Git for backups. The files are text files so git works great.

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