PicoJr/rtw

Export to human-readable format(s)

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skyfaller commented

Let's say I want to share my time log with someone. Maybe I'm a freelancer who wants to document my work for a client, maybe I want to show my life coach where I'm wasting all of my time so they can help me be more efficient, whatever.

Nobody wants me to send them a JSON file, and asking them to install rtw to load the JSON file seems like a tall order. Could we export to some format that I could easily send to a layperson so they could see how I spent my time?

We can already do a crappy version of this by running e.g. rtw summary > summary.txt but I feel we could do a better job of presenting that information to people.

Ideas:

Apologies if this is outside the scope of the project.

PicoJr commented

Hello,

Yes it would definitely make sense to be able to export data to an external format.

iCalendar is a great suggestion, there is already a crate for iCalendar: https://github.com/hoodie/icalendar-rs

Apologies if this is outside the scope of the project.

It's perfectly on scope: I use rtw for keeping track of what I've worked on at my job.

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PicoJr commented

Create an activity:

❯ ./target/debug/rtw track 08:00 - 12:00 "eat cookies"
Recorded eat cookies
Started 2020-06-15T08:00:00
Ended   2020-06-15T12:00:00
Total   04:00:00

Dump current day finished activities as an iCalendar to stdout:

❯ ./target/debug/rtw dump
BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:ICALENDAR-RS
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20200615T193917Z
DTEND:20200615T100000
DTSTART:20200615T060000
SUMMARY:eat cookies
UID:26da67a8-28a5-4bc9-aeb9-fd148f301029
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR

Intended usage:

./target/debug/rtw dump > today.ics

Note: it's still alpha-level feature, I still need to write more tests and document the dump subcommand properly.

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PicoJr commented

Available in v1.4.0

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