Hi, almarklein and team. I like your idea on making an open source version of time tracker and how you executed it: website with neat-font and european-japanese cute minimalist style, CLI tool, etc...
I have a bunch of ideas in this field and the essential one is to add a new timeline of "plan" so we can know how much we are in control of ourselves. And with this new timeline we can merge much more functionalities than merely time tracking, like plan next week with todo; add tasks from todo list, classify todo list, form a new habit by tracking it, etc.
Can I work with you guys? or it is against your original idea hence I need to fork this.

The situation for which I am looking for a solution is the following:

In addition to the job/client, I also tag the activities by their "type". Was it a focused work, did I only do routine work or did I participate in a meeting etc.

For the " invoicing" of the hours I do not need these times. That means it would be useful if I could define a list of tags that are NOT included in the report. This could be done directly at the tag where you can also set a time target and the color → set a mark "don't include this tag in the report".

Do others have a similar situation? Is there a better solution than my suggestion?

My suggestion would bring me a significant relief day by day, but also raises a new question: How can I then evaluate how much time I spent focused, in meetings, etc.?

Thanks Chris

What is the check mark or x in the upper left corner beside the menu with a spiral going around it? It's not mentioned in the docs anywhere from what I can tell, and there is no tooltip when hovering over it.

What does it mean when it's an 'x' and what does it mean when it's a check mark?

Lately I've been having this issue where I click "stop" and the recording does seem to stop, but when I come back to work I find the recording had actually not stopped and is still counting.

I don't know exactly how to reproduce it, but it happens quite frequently. I'm using TimeTagger on mobile as a pinned Firefox web app, and on my PC as a GNOME Web (Epiphany) web app, but the error doens't seem to depend on having both open at the same time.

Is this happening to anyone else?

Currently max width of canvas is 1024px, would be nice if I could opt to have it be the full screen width. I tried to figure this out in code but no luck :(

This is just an idea for a very small but helpful enhancement: just make it more visible when a record is running.

A simple way of doing this: Changing the colors of the single "Record" button to white on green, and the "Stop" button to white on red. The "secondary" record button (the one that appears beside the stop button) could be kept as is.

A complementary change could be to also change the background color of the active/running record on the timeline.

I often go to sleep after 00:00, so it would be nice to be able to configure the start of a day. I mainly want it when focusing "today" ("snap to now"). It could also be used in reports grouped by date.

When I zoom out to the point where I can view each week's hours as a single block (this is the month view), the user interface attempts to automatically scroll to snap things into view, but I've never found this to be consistent.

As it stands, it seems to be snapping to something other than week boundaries (perhaps months?). When I'm dragging this view back in time, it will sometimes move several weeks ahead or back in time to do this, making me lose sight of the week I want to be looking at. As far as I can tell, there's no other way to view things week-by-week except by selecting dates manually.

Summary

This is a feature request to make search more accessible and practical when creating new records, helping us to:

• Avoid having to manually enter a description for recurrent or frequent tasks..
• Avoid creating multiple entries with different descriptions for the very same task.
• Avoid creating multiple entries with different tags for the very same task.

Current situation and use case

• When creating a new record, very frequently I want to reuse an existing description, or take it as a basis and edit it slightly.
• Presets do help, but only for tags, not for the actual description. And I wouldn't want to have hundreds of presets.
• So search is the best option: you search for a term, click on the entry that is most similar to what you want so you can edit it, and then create a new record based on that one by hitting "Resume" and then editing the description if needed.
• BUT search is hidden away inside the hamburguer menu, and using it for this purpose is not very practical.

Possible improvements

1. Make the search button permanently visible in the UI.

or

2. Add search to the record creation/edition dialog itself: 2.a. Add a search button near the presets button. It would pop up the existing search window, and once you pick an entry in the search results, go back to the record creation/edition window with the selected description filled in. 2.b. Just start typing in the description field and see a drop-down list similar to the one in the search dialog, showing related options in real time. Clicking on one of the results would put it into the description field to be further edited if needed.

or

Any other ideas?

Good point made here: https://github.com/almarklein/timetagger/pull/169#issuecomment-1044060355

I think we can distinguish (at least) 3 use-cases:

1. The user is looking for a preset. Worked good previously, and still does.
2. The user is looking for a recent tag only. Did not work so well, this PR fixed that.
3. The user is not sure what to look for. I had not thought of this and broke this use-case :)

Some ideas that come to mind:

• When typing "#", show presets first, then recents. When you start typing, the matches show recents first and then presets. No more "##".
• Keep distinction between "#" and "##", but it only determines the order: With "#" show recents and then presets. With "##" show presets and then recents.

Hi,

It would be great if one could setup your personal expected work time per week (like 40 hours). and get an overview how much of this time has already passed in the running week, respectively how much will be left to work.

All the best, Florian

This sample from the README is misleading:

# Using environment variables
export TIMETAGGER_CREDENTIALS=test:$2a$08$0CD1NFiIbancwWsu3se1v.RNR/b7YeZd71yg3cZ/3whGlyU6Iny5i
python -m timetagger

It will expand $2 and $0 and caught me off-guard when building a launcher script. Value has to be wrapped in '.

Please update your README.

Currently, whenever I add a new tag, it'll automatically get the "primary" priority. I'd like to have tag "levels" for customers, projects (some projects can be used with more than one customer, which kinda rules out using / for hierarchy), and add the ticket number our ticket system generates, which looks like a tag (always a numeric one, though).

I could enter the ticket numbers without the #, but I actually kinda like being able to select time items by them, I just want to let them be "secondary" tags by default.

Would that be possible? Feasible? From what I can tell, the entire description, tags and all, is just sent to the database in one go, specific tags settings are only created if I manually edit a tag.

Of course, if need be, I could always run a recurring job that talks to the API and adds settings for ticket-formatted tags, if that's easier.

Hey!

I could not find an issue on this. There is a grouping by date (and date / tags) already. And I think, similarly, it would be nice to be able to group by week and month (and week | month / tags).

It would be useful to track time spent working per week for example.

Thanks!

Hi, currently in version 22.11.2 (this is where it started), and also in 22.11.3, when starting a new task, and entering some text in the description field: when I type "##" to search for saved task presets and choose an entry from the dropdown, the previously entered text in the description field is deleted and replaced by the tag from the list. ;)

In earlier versions, the tag was added to the description text.

Could you please have a look at this?

Thx, Florian

In my opinion it would be a good improvement to be able to plan a day ahead and maybe even evaluate if the planned schedule is being met in the report (but that feature would not be that important I guess).

Example: The evening before someone plans to do task x from 8:00 am to 10:00 am, then task y from 11:30 am to 01:00 pm and so on. For people doing pomodoros it could be good to be able to plan x amount of pomodoros à 25 Minutes from 8:00 am to 10:00 am doing taks y. The day the tasks are due the person inputs its working times as normal and can compare the planned and actual working time. As for the graphical integration it could look like a second layer behind the actual tracked time but in a lighter colour or kind of translucent.

Thanks for your work and a really nice piece of software!