Doing: command line tool for keeping track of what you’re doing and have done

Aliased it to '@'.

This is something people should write for themselves because the best usage comes from tailoring it to your own particular needs. Also, you have to maintain it then it may not get all featured-up and bloated. Maybe. :)

then you can finger(1) and get info.

    dun started
    dun Implemented feature xxx
    dun reddit and hn **
    dun Fixed bug xxx
    dun lunch **
    

I like this style of recording things but I would like to be able to log back to a server from anywhere and have things like git commits added as well for additional context. And then there is report generation.

  # from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7411120
  export NOW_FORMAT='%F %T'
  export NOW_FORMAT2='+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'
  export NOW_FILE="$HOME/.now"
  now() {
    if [ -e $NOW_FILE ] &&
       last_line=$(tail -n1 $NOW_FILE | cut -d " " -f 1,2) &&
       time0=$(date -j -f "$NOW_FORMAT" "$(tail -n1 $NOW_FILE)" "+%s") && 
       time1=$(date -j "+%s")
    then echo "ET $(( $time1 - $time0 ))" >> $NOW_FILE
    fi
    echo $(date +"$NOW_FORMAT") - "$@" >> $NOW_FILE
    tail $HOME/.now # show the last few lines
  }

'task reports' lists a number of all the premade reports that will give you some of the information you are looking for. You can also list reports based on status by doing 'task status:pending'. Please see the docs page (http://taskwarrior.org/docs/tutorials/filter.html) on using filters.

The burndown reports are pretty useful too (they are graphical and can help you visualize that status of a project very easily).

Try adding annotations to your tasks.

  $ task <id> annotate "text"

I made doing because I get manic and don't even realize I'm switching to a new task until I've already forgotten what I was doing before. It's probably not an issue for most people. So, for me, I have Day One pop up every hour and ask me what I'm doing, which then gets converted to a "WWID" file in nvALT via the library in doing (and Hazel). If I do remember to track between tasks, I just jot it off on the command line.

I love the idea of a timer, though. I do use Timing to do something similar. http://timingapp.com/

And the organization by nested CSVs has some great potential for longer-term data collection.

`doing now writing too long of a post on HN`

for instance:

  23:34, task started
  00:09, task done
  expected time spent: 35 mins
  reported time spent: -24 mins

https://github.com/pkamenarsky/atea

Not perfect, but as close as possible

For US based folks, here's the US link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tyme/id670592452

http://www.tyme-app.de/en/

I found Mirakel[0] but I do not think that was the app promised by the original dev. Still googling after I hit submit out of curiosity.

[0] http://mirakel.azapps.de/taskwarrior.html