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Now that you're all here, I'm playing with the idea to create a CLI tool so that you can start and stop records from the command line. Would this be interesting to you or would it only be a gimmick?

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Org mode on emacs has some pretty nice clocking commands [1] that I find useful frequently. I guess a similar separate cli tool would be nice as well.

[1] https://orgmode.org/manual/Clocking-commands.html

Possible integrations with tools like Alfred (macOS app) is a good reason to have a CLI (IMO). I use Watson [1] to track time and mostly interact with it through Alfred.

[1] https://tailordev.github.io/Watson/

+1 for Watson

yes, classic january stuff, but I was just thinking I could be doing with a daemon that I can control with rofi for tracking time, I could write some scripts to integrate it with freeagent and perhaps query how much money I made today and display it on i3status. with a CLI over your tool I would only be writing a few wee scripts, which would be ideal.

(p.s. if anyone reading this has a suggestion that isn't tied to a python script written by someone whose new year resolution is "Launch 12 products this year and blog about it next year" i would appreciate a pointer. This seems like something a gnu tool probably exists for. I just checked and this one has no API which makes it useless for me since the value is all the boring work is already done...)

Interesting. I could see myself opening a terminal (or 10) to perform some small scope of work, starting the timer, and then closing the terminals and timer once that task is done.

It wouldn't be a gimmick, I imagine it would be a hard requirement for me to use the program at all.

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