python-time-tracking

This is a simple plain text time tracking tool.

time_logger.py creates a txt file for each day and generate_figures.py creates and saves figures.

gui_time_logger.py has a GUI created with PySimpleGUI. Here is a picture of the GUI:

Usage

python gui_time_logger.py

Once the script is running, there are 4 commands:

To start a new topic: start {TOPIC}

To add a note on current topic: note {NOTE}

To stop current topic: stop

To open log file in notepad: open

OR: if you prefer a gui, you can run

python gui_time_logger.py

Here is an example of an entry in the txt file:

@ml:
-  start:  15:02
-  notes:
-  -  studying semi-supervised learning
-  stop:   15:08

Making figures

After you have created a couple of log files, you can run generate_figures.py to generate figures. generate_figures.py parses all log files (in the selected folder) and summarizes the content in figures.

python generate_figures.py [-d dir]

Currently the code generates a histogram of daily time per topic, a pie chart of total time per topic, a weekly histogram, and a calendar heatmap (looks like the github contribution graph).

Here is an example figure, showing at what times I am most productive: