timereport

A small command-line utility for reporting working time and displaying it in different formats.

+--------------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+
|                    | 2025-02-03 | 2025-02-04 | 2025-02-05 | 2025-02-06 | 2025-02-07 |
+--------------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+
|                    | Monday     | Tuesday    | Wednesday  | Thursday   | Friday     |
+--------------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+
| start              |            |            | 08:00      |            |            |
+--------------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+
| stop               |            |            | 17:00      |            |            |
+--------------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+
| lunch              |            |            | 00:45      |            |            |
+--------------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+
| 1. Default project |            |            | 06:15      |            |            |
+--------------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+
| 2. Project A       |            |            | 02:15      |            |            |
+--------------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+
| 3. Project B       |            |            |            |            |            |
+--------------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+

Installation

Timereport stores both configuration and time report data in a file timereport.json, by default at .

1. Run cargo install --path .
2. Set the TIMEREPORT_PATH environment variable to where you want to create the .json file containing settings and time report data. Default is C:\Users\$USERNAME\Dropbox\timereport.json.
3. Run timereport. timereport.json will be created in the chosen location.
4. Set the working_time_per_day variable in the json file to the appropriate value in seconds. Default is 27900 seconds (7 hours and 45 minutes).
5. Add projects as appropriate (see Adding Projects).

Usage

General

It is recommended to assign an alias to timereport. Below the alias t is assumed.

Saturdays and Sundays will only be shown if they are affected. To always show them, use --weekend.

Adding Data

$ t 2025-02-08 start 08:30
$ t monday lunch 45m 
$ t last monday stop 16:45

If date is omitted, the current date will be used:

$ t start 08:30
$ t start 08:30 stop 16:00 lunch 45m

Projects

Adding Projects

$ t add myproject
$ t add "Project containing spaces"

Reporting Time on Projects

These are all equivalent, provided that myproject is number 2 in the list:

$ t project myproject 8
$ t project myproject 8:00
$ t project 2 8:00

Showing Data

Data can be shown one week or one month at a time, either in the terminal or in a web browser.

Add last to show the previous week.

Console

$ t
$ t show week
$ t show last week
$ t show january

Browser

$ t show week html

Weekend

Add the --weekend flag to any command to show Saturday and Sunday:

$ t --weekend
$ t show week html --weekend
$ t start 8:30 --weekend

Development

Running Tests

cargo test

Running Tests with Coverage

cargo llvm-cov [--html]

Publishing to Github and Crates.io

1. Update version in Cargo.toml
2. Add version description to Changelog below
3. Commit
4. git tag x.y.z; git push --tags
5. cargo publish

Changelog

0.2.4

First working version

0.2.8

Add workflow to deploy for Windows

0.3.0

Bold formatting for changed cells

0.3.1

Fix flex display in show week html