[colug-432] Looking for a Linux-based time-keeping application

[Chris Clonch]

On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 16:30 -0800, Peter Kukla wrote:
> I'm working on several projects, and often jerked from one to another.
> 
> I'd like to start keeping closer tabs on how much time I spend on each project.
> 
> My initial thought is that it would be nice to have a pop-up to grab my attention in my X Window session every N minutes to ask me what I'm doing.  I could drag my attention away from whatever task I was working on just long enough to select a radio button or type a keyword or whatever and have the result stored where it could be tracked later.
> 
> Do you have a favorite app for this sort of itch?  Or something that will do the job better in a different way?

At work we setup a Laconica server for this.  Basically just use a
desktop client to make posts and use tags to categorize them.  Since
everything is timestamped, you get an easy recording system.  I'm
currently using Pidgn, a co-worker uses Gwibber.  Previously someone
used Choqok; you get the idea.

Now we haven't wrote any query scripts yet, but at least the data is
getting recorded.

A side effect is everyone can see what you're working on, for better or
worse...

-Chris