These are just some quick scripts to use with the wonderful Watson time tracker.
An interactive shell for Watson. It simply dispatches to watson itself, but keeps the context (current project, date span, …)
Use it with rlwrap (see watson-sh --help) for improved experience (command history, completion, …)
Optional dependency:
rlwrap
A cron script to alert you when you forgot to start Watson. Displays a notification when:
- you are working on the same project for a long period,
- you are not working on a project.
The purpose is to remind you to start tracking your time, or to check if you have forgotten to change the project (and remind you to take a break).
Uses notify-send (from libnotify) to send the alert.
Put the script in a cron task. For instance:
*/5 * * * * $HOME/bin/watson-notify
You can redefined the alert parameters in the $WATSON_DIR/alert file which will be sourced if present. Run watson-notify -c to display the current configuration.
watson-notify -c > $HOME/.config/watson/alert
TIP: to use a random message, put one message by line in a file (e.g. $HOME/.config/watson/messages)
and use
QUESTION_MESSAGE="$(shuf -n 1 $CONFIG_DIR/messages)"
in the $WATSON_DIR/alert file. If you use a command-line task management tool, like Taskwarrior, it's easy to display the next task to do in the notification. For taskwarrior, I use the following QUESTION_MESSAGE:
QUESTION_MESSAGE="$(shuf -n 1 $CONFIG_DIR/messages)\n\n<b>TODO:</b>\n$(task rc.verbose=nothing now)"
with the custom now report defined as:
report.now.description=To do now
report.now.columns=id,description.desc
report.now.filter=status:pending and limit:3
report.now.sort=urgency-
to display the next 3 tasks (description and ID).
The notification can be suspended for a short period of time using the --snooze option.
Dependency:
notify-send: (libnotify-binon Debian)
Print Watson reports by time periods.
This is just a little wrapper around watson report. For instance,
to print a monthly report for the last 5 months:
watson-periodic-report 5 months
and to print a weekly report for the last 10 weeks
watson-periodic-report 10 weeks
An I3 bar status displaying the current project (using conky).
Save in e.g. ~/.config/i3/watson-status and add
{"full_text": "\${texeci 5 ~/.config/i3/watson-status}"}
to your conky configuration file.
Another tip that don't deserve a file here: I bind ctrl+alt+delete to a small script that stop watson, snooze the notification and lock the screen. When unlocked, the notification is activated.
#!/bin/bash
watson stop
watson-notify -s 10 hours
mpc pause
i3lock -f -n -c 000000
watson-notify -a
A Taskwarrior hook to start a watson task according to a taskwarrior one.
When starting a task in taskwarrior, the hook starts a corresponding project in watson. The project and keywords of the taskwarrior task are used in watson. When stopping a task in taskwarrior, the hook stops the watson project.
To install, copy in $HOME/.task/hooks/on-modify-watson.py and make executable.
A tool to convert watson frames to other formats.
Usage:
watson-convert <format>
The formats currently supported are:
- icalendar
- ledger
These two formats can be used to create alternative reports. For instance:
-
to display a calendar of the work done in June 2016:
watson-convert ical | ical2html -d -m -l -z Europe/Paris 20160601 P4W > tasks.html
-
to display the relative time spent on dev tasks by projects for this month:
watson-convert ledger | ledger -f - balance --begin "this month" --percent tag dev
This script suppose that the watson "project" field has the form:
[task]@project[.subject]
For instance Write unit [email protected] (this is the format used
by the taskwarrior hook).
These scripts are released under the Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License.
