hours is a time tracking toolkit with an interactive terminal interface and command-line reporting tools. It is designed for people who want to record time spent on tasks and projects without leaving the terminal.
Its keyboard-driven workflow keeps everyday operations accessible with just a few key presses. Separate views organise tasks, historical entries and inactive tasks, with an integrated help screen for checking shortcuts.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Create and update tasks, and deactivate or reactivate them as needed.
- Start and stop tracking, or switch directly between tasks with a single key press that saves the previous session.
- Add manual time entries, edit ongoing recordings and correct previously saved logs.
- Record comments alongside sessions, inspect entry details and delete unwanted logs.
- Adjust timestamps using keyboard shortcuts, with controls for moving backwards or forwards by minutes and days.
- Generate daily reports showing time spent on individual tasks, with optional aggregation of multiple sessions.
- View logs and statistics for today, yesterday, the current week, specific dates or custom date ranges.
- Display reports, logs and statistics interactively, and filter results by task status.
- Show the current task and elapsed time through customisable output suitable for a tmux status line.
- Customise interface and reporting colours through JSON themes supporting ANSI and hexadecimal colour values.
- Generate sample tracking data to explore reporting without recording real work.
- Cross-platform support – runs on Linux and macOS.
Website: github.com/dhth/hours
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Developer: Dhruv Thakur
License: MIT License
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