Homemade timetracking in its simplest form.

README.md

What ?

It's a very simple timetracking tool for linux users that use systemd services & zenity.

(source)

How to install

1. Put timetracking.sh on your computer.
   Do not forget to set correct paths & chmod +x the script
2. Create file /etc/systemd/system/timetracker.service (put content of timetracker.service inside).
   Do not forget to set correct path to timetracking.sh & systemctl enable timetracker
3. Apply changes with sudo systemctl daemon-reload

Screenshots

Licence

WTFPL2

timetracker.service

[Unit]
Description=Really simple timetracking tool.

[Service]
Type=simple
Environment="DISPLAY=:0"
Environment="XAUTHORITY=/home/YOUR USER HERE/.Xauthority"
ExecStart=/YOUR/PATH/TO/timetracking.sh
Restart=on-failure

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

timetracking.sh

#!/bin/sh
#
# timetracking.sh - a really simple semi automated timetracking tool
# version 1.0.1
#
# Licensed under WTFPL v2 - see https://wtfpl2.com/
# Corentin Bettiol - 2020
#
# The goal here is to ask what you are doing 5 minutes after your computer startup,
# and then every 30 minutes.
# > (/etc/systemd/system/timetracker.service)

savetimeandtextinfile () {
        filelocation="/YOUR/PATH/TO/timetracking.txt"
        txt=$(zenity --entry --text="What are you doing right now?" --title="timetracking.sh - [$datetime]" --width="330" --display=:0.0)
        datetime=$(date '+%d/%m/%Y %H:%M:%S')
        echo "[$datetime] $txt" >> $filelocation
}

sleep 300
savetimeandtextinfile

while sleep 1800;
do
        savetimeandtextinfile
done

Nice, thanks!