A project-based timer for tracking those billable hours.
Until I get this up on hackage, it will need to be installed from source.
- Haskell Platform 2013.2.0.0 or greater
- Cabal 1.18 or greater recommended (yay, sandboxing)
It is probably best to take advantage of Cabal 1.18's sandboxing. Here is how to do that.
$ git clone https://github.com/rjregenold/timer.git
$ cd timer
$ cabal sandbox init
$ cabal install
If all goes well, you will have the timer executable in
./.cabal-sandbox/bin/timer. You can make this globally available by either
adding that directory to your path (a bit silly) or by creating a ~/bin
directory in your home directory, adding that to your path, then creating
a symlink inside there that points to the sandboxed executable.
$ mkdir ~/bin
$ cd ~/bin
$ ln -s ~/[path/to/timer/source]/.cabal-sandbox/bin/timer timer
Then make sure to edit your ~/.profile, ~/.bashrc, or whatever other shell
config file you need to in order to add ~/bin to your $PATH environment
variable.
The timer is project-based. That means most commands take a NAME which
should be the name of the project. For example, if you're working on a project
for FooBar, Inc your workflow might look something like this:
$ timer start foobar
# [do lots of work]
$ timer stop foobar
$ timer list foobar
Duration Start End
01:34:15 12/29/13 08:00:00 AM 12/29/13 09:34:15 AM
Use this when you start working.
$ timer start NAME
Use this when you finish working.
$ timer stop NAME
Use this if you accidentally started a timer, or if you do not wish to record the current timer entry.
$ timer cancel NAME
Use this to see a list of entries for the given timer.
$ timer list NAME
Use this to see a list of all timer names.
$ timer names
Use this to see a list of active timers, their duration, and when they were started.
$ timer active