Stempel

Small utility to store and calculate the time spent at work.

:warning: v0.10.0 introduces a new storage file format. Run stempel migrate to update your json database to the new format.

Usage

Example for managing one day:

# start working now
stempel start
# start a break five minutes ago
stempel break start --offset 5m-
# optional: break can be canceled:
stempel cancel
# finish break in one hour (only if not canceled above)
stempel break stop --offset 1h+
# Finish the day
stempel stop

For a detailed reference, run stempel help or stempel SUBCOMMAND --help. Available subcommands are:

• cancels the last break, start or does nothing if no break or start in the storage,
• break: use start or stop as subcommand to handle breaks,
• migrate: migrate storage file from old (before 0.10.0) to new format (since v0.10.0)
• start: start a working period, aborts if you already started previously,
• stats prints current statistics.
• stop: checks if a start entry is in the storage file and calculates the working time, aborts if no start entry is found,

Options:

--offset

This option allows to specify a positive or negative offset to the current time. In other words, giving the option --offset 10m+ means that the command is executed with the current time plus 10 minutes, 20s- stands for current time minus 20 seconds. The syntax allows ([0-9]*)(h|m|s)(+|-) where h|m|s refers to hours, minutes and seconds, respectively.

--storage

Specifiy a path to the storage file where all work entries are written to. The path defaults to $HOME/.config/stempel.json and is created on the first invocation of the start subcommand.

Features

• Statistics:
  • statistics of last two months grouped by weeks
  • allow printing only ranges of stats, e.g. months, years...
  • display long hours
• Tracking: allow to specify start and stop time as cli arg
• Tracking: cancel started work
• Specify an offset from current time when starting or stopping
• Add more possibilities to offset

License

MIT