Re: Using Ledger as a time tracking system?

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> Colin Dean <c...@cad.cx> writes:

> Has anyone used Ledger as a means for tracking time?

What a great question! since this is my primary use for Ledger now. :)

Ledger directly supports "timelog" entries, which have this form:

i 2013/03/28 22:13:00 ACCOUNT[ PAYEE]
o 2013/03/29 03:39:00

This records a check-in to the given ACCOUNT, and a check-out. You can be
checked-in to multiple accounts at a time, if you wish, and they can span
multiple days (use --day-break to break them up in the report). The number of
seconds between is accumulated as time to that ACCOUNT. If the checkout uses
a capital "O", the transaction is marked "cleared". You can use an optional
PAYEE for whatever meaning you like.

Now, there are a few ways to generate this information. You can use the
timeclock.el package, which is part of Emacs. Or you can use Org-mode's
time-clocking abilities and my attached org2tc script. Or you can write a
simple script in whichever language you prefer to emit similar information.

These timelog entries can appear in a separate file, or directly in your main
ledger file. The initial "i" and "o" count as Ledger "directives", and are
accepted anywhere that ordinary transactions are.

I further run this program through a program I call "hours", which generates a
text display for me like this (I show this on my desktop at 5 minutes
intervals using GeekTool):

0.8% ↓2.4h (166.7h)
⏱ 1.30h

This shows me my temporal progress against a full-time work month, how many
hours are left in the month, and -- if I'm clocked in -- how many hours I've
worked today. I have this program up on GitHub:

https://github.com/jwiegley/hours

Hope this helps,
John

[Craig Earls]

I need to add this to the docuemntation, it is silent on the time
tracking stuff :(

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[John Wiegley]

>>>>> Craig Earls <ende...@gmail.com> writes:

> I need to add this to the docuemntation, it is silent on the time tracking
> stuff :(

That would be a great addition, thanks Craig!

John

[Colin Dean]

Having some good documentation would make this a lot easier to understand. I messed around with it a little last night, but I'm getting caught up on the options because I don't know ledger's options very well yet. 

[colin@kid tmp]$ cat time.ledger

i 2013/04/05 09:30:00 Internal:Meeting:Tactical [Intelligent comment]

o 2013/04/05 10:00:00

i 2013/04/05 10:00:00 CustomerA:Email

o 2013/04/05 10:05:00

i 2013/04/05 10:05:00 CustomerB:Config

o 2013/04/05 11:30:00

i 2013/04/05 11:30:00 Personal:Walk

o 2013/04/05 12:00:00

i 2013/04/05 12:00:00 Personal:Lunch

o 2013/04/05 13:30:00

[colin@kid tmp]$ ledger -f time.ledger  print

2013/04/05 ()

    (Internal:Meeting:Tactical [Intelligent comment])       1800s

2013/04/05 ()

    (CustomerA:Email)                           300s

2013/04/05 ()

    (CustomerB:Config)                         5100s

2013/04/05 ()

    (Personal:Walk)                            1800s

2013/04/05 ()

    (Personal:Lunch)                           5400s

I'd like for the output to be grouped by day and the time in hours rounded to one decimal place.

[thierry]

$ ledger --daily register 

13-Apr-05 - 13-Apr-05   (CustomerA:Email)          5.0m     5.0m

                        (CustomerB:Config)        1.42h    1.50h

                        ..ntelligent comment])    30.0m    2.00h

                        (Personal:Lunch)          1.50h    3.50h

                        (Personal:Walk)           30.0m    4.00h

[Colin Dean]

You have no idea how happy this makes me.

Thanks, folks. I've found the right tool! For multiple jobs!

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