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Watson
Watson is a free and open-source time-tracker for Linux that uses the command-line interface.
Setup
On most Linux distributions Watson can be installed with the watson package.
Additionally Watson can be installed using Pythons pip package manager.
The pip package is called ´td-watson`.
Alternatively it can be installed via GitHub.
Usage
The following section describes various ways of usage of Watson.
Tracking Time and Displaying Tracked Time
Time can be tracked by running the following command.
This example tracks time to a project called world-domination and uses the tag cats and dogs.
Additional tags can be appended or tags can be ommited if not needed.
This should be adapted to specific needs.
watson start world-domination +cats +dogs
Alternatively the start time can be set in the past by adding the --at flag with a time.
watson start world-domination +cats +dogs --at 13:37
The tracking of the time can be stopped by running the following command.
watson stop
Afterwards the summary of the tracked time can be displayed by running the following command.
watson report
Adding a Time Frame in Retrospect
It can be useful to add time frames in retrospect if the starting and stopping of that task was
forgotten at that time.
For this the following command can be run.
It works similarly to starting a time frame as explained in the
section above.
Additionally the start and stop time are specified with the --from and --to flags.
watson add --from "2018-03-20 12:00:00" --to "2018-03-20 13:00:00" programming +addfeature