MyTime
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LICENSE
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MyTime: A minimalistic time track tool usable from the system tray
Copyright (C) 2008 Marnix Klooster <marnix.klooster@gmail.com>
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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Icons by http://dryicons.com (Aesthetica Icon Set, version 1.12,
http://dryicons.com/free-icons/preview/aesthetica/).
GOAL
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MyTime is intended to be a minimalistic time track tool. For me, that
currently means the following:
- During day-to-day work it takes up minimal screen space, so in a desktop
environment it stays in the system tray.
- It only has commands for the basic actions: start working on a new or on an
existing task, stop working, and edit start/end times and task names for
recent activities.
- It generally stays out of the way until I use it once a week to generate a
report of some kind.
However, I do also have the following requirements:
- The tool should work cross-platform, at least Windows and Gnome-on-Linux
should be supported.
- It should be based on a well-defined, simple, and compact time log file
format.
- It should be flexible in the reports that can be generated (but not
necessarily through the GUI: a command-line interface is OK as well).
So why did I start creating yet another time track tool? Well, I couldn't find
one that fit the above ideas perfectly. And it was also a good excuse to try
and create a simple GUI in Java, and to get to know Eclipse better, which I
need to do for my day-time job.
TODO
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* Build initial screen to indicate starting/stopping work.
* Allow editing of start/end times of work.
* Create an 'About' screen, with acknowledgments for DryIcons' icons.
* Allow specification of a task name.
* Design an initial version of the time log file format.
* In the context menu, show a list of recent tasks, and start the timer on
a task that is selected.
* Make every task/time change persistent to a time log file. Read this file
on start-up.
* Add a multi-level 'undo' function to the UI (the time log is not rolled
back, but an undo entry is added).
* Add a multi-level 'redo' function.
* Allow specification of 'tags' for each task name, to help in reporting.
* Try to make the application respond to (configurable) global keystrokes.
