Timewarrior is a command-line time tracking application that records how long you spend on different activities. It is suitable for tracking working hours, projects, personal tasks or simply discovering where your time goes during the day.
The application records time as intervals, each of which can be associated with one or more tags. You can start and stop tracking activities, record past intervals and correct mistakes when you forget to start or stop a timer. Existing intervals can be moved, resized, split, joined or extended to fill gaps in your records.
Timewarrior includes summary reports and terminal-based charts showing how your time is distributed across a day, week or month. Reports can be filtered by tags, dates and interval identifiers. Recorded data can also be exported and imported as JSON, making it possible to exchange information with other applications or transfer records between computers.
The application integrates with Taskwarrior through a hook script that automatically starts and stops time tracking alongside tasks. Timewarrior also supports custom reports and extensions for more specialised analysis.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Track activities using simple start, stop and continue commands.
- Associate multiple tags with recorded intervals to organise activities and projects.
- Record past activities using explicit start and end times.
- Generate summary reports with configurable date ranges, tag filters and interval identifiers.
- Display colour-coded terminal charts showing tracked time by day, week or month.
- Correct recorded intervals by moving, lengthening, shortening, splitting, joining or deleting them.
- Fill gaps between recorded intervals using the fill command or the :fill hint.
- Add annotations to intervals and modify their associated tags.
- Import and export tracked intervals in JSON format.
- Supports configurable colour themes, work weeks, holiday files and command-line hints.
- Automatically track Taskwarrior activities using an on-modify hook script.
- Extend reporting capabilities through custom scripts and extensions.
Website: timewarrior.net
Support:
Developer: Thomas Lauf, Paul Beckingham, Federico Hernandez
License: MIT License
Timewarrior is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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