Clocked: A simple time-tracker

Welcome to clocked, a small, simple task-based time tracker. The motivation for creating this was that I wanted to have something I could use to track my working time offline and at the end of the day easily sync up to JIRA. I've tried taskwarrior and OrgMode in the past but none of them offered me the UX and flexibility I wanted. So here we are ;-)

How to get started

Getting started with clocked is quite simple. Just install it and start adding tasks to it. Every screen will show you a list of all the available keyboard commands. If you don't want to sync your tasks with JIRA, then there is even nothing for you to configure :-)

Synchronizing your work-time with JIRA worklogs

If you do want to sync with JIRA, you will have to create a $HOME/.clocked/config.yml file and put your JIRA's URL and username into it:

jiraURL: https://jira.company.com
jiraUsername: jdoe

When you start clocked for the next time then it will ask you for your JIRA password and store it into a macOS keychain.

Once that is all done, make sure to create tasks that have the same code as the tasks you have in JIRA. Then hit ^s to enter the summary view to see all the tasks you've worked on today. From there hit ^j to enter the sync-view and s to actually start the synchronization.

This will delete all your worklogs of the selected date and create new ones for your tasks as tracked by clocked.

If you don't want specific tasks not to be synchornized you can assign them the tag "offline". These tasks will be shown on the sync-view as offline tasks.

Backups using restic

If you have restic installed, clocked will create a snapshot after every change to a task. If you create a new task, a snapshot will be made. If you clock in or out, a new snapshot will be made. By default the backup repository is stored in $HOME/.clocked_backups and its password is saved in $HOME/.clocked/backups.passwd

If you want to keep your backups somewhere else (e.g. inside a Dropbox folder) you have to do two things:

1. Move ~/.clocked_backups to its target location.

2. Inside ~/.clocked/config.yml add the following line:

   backups_path: /Users/yourname/Dropbox/clocked_backups
   

   Replace /Users/yourname/Dropbox/clocked_backups with whatever path you moved the backups to in step 1 🙂

Command-line arguments

• --log-file <path/to/file> specifies a path to a logfile clocked should write to.
• --store <path/to/folder> specifies where clocked should store its files. Default: $HOME/.clocked