OutOfMyWay (Omw) Time Tracker

*** (12/11/19) In active development, it may not work exactly as described, but it's close ***

A minimalist time tracker. The primary purposes of this tool are:

1. Help a user track time and tasks without getting in the way of flow
2. Provide a simple, extendable reporting interface to help transfer tasks to an external system

Any contributions to the tool will not impact these purposes.

Secondary goals are:

• Support Linux, Windows, and MacOS
• Do not require network connectivity to fulfill primary functionality
• Stay as lightweight as practical
• (future) Provide an extensible API to the reporting functions
• (future) Sychronize your timesheet to a backend to allow seamless sharing between devices

This time-tracking tool was inspired by the Ultimate Time Tracker.

Transfering quick tasks from this tool into an external tracking system (ie: Workday) is still largely manual. Since this is usually a requirement for enterprise users, streamlining this process will be a core part of reaching version 1.0.

Prerequisites

For running

• The latest release of Omw
• If you want to use the progressive web app, a recent web browser (we target Chrome for now but others may work)

Getting Started

The program has a command-line and HTTP-accessible API builtin.

To use the command-line interface, run the program omw without any arguments to get help.

To use the network API:

1. Run omw server and note the URL returned
2. Visit the Omw PWA URL and install the Chrome extension *coming soon

For developing

• Go 1.11+

Building

go build

Architecture

Omw is a simple, stateless, time tracker application, in that there is never a running clock in the background. It only adds a task with the current timestamp to a text file log, and then compares adjacent timestamps to generate reports. The timesheet is written line-by-line and stored in the default home directory as returned by the go-homedir package under .local/share/omw/omw.toml.

The binary provides a command-line interface and a Go Gorilla Mux HTTP server providing a REST-ish API. An flock() package provides an interface to operating system file locking.

References

• Ultimate Time Tracker