Trackstar 🏃‍♂️

Track things. Like a star!

Trackstar is a simple, command line based practice tracker. It creates human-readable Markdown files for every entry in your log.

Use the built in stats functionality to get some insights. If you need to edit or review entries, just open up the files.

Installation

$ gem install trackstar

Usage

Create a new Trackstar log

$ trackstar -n "Guitar Practice"

This will create a directory for your log, a trackstar.yaml config file, and a directory called posts where all of your entries will go.

Create a new post in an existing Trackstar log

To write new posts in your log, you will to run the trackstar command from within your log directory. When you write a new log, a new Markdown file will be created in the posts directory.

$ trackstar
New Post For Aug 19 2017 10:09 pm:
---------------------
subject:
...

Get log stats

$ trackstar -s

List recent posts

$ trackstar -l # lists the 10 most recent posts
...
$ trackstar -l 5 # lists the 5 most recent posts
...

Need more help?

$ trackstar -h

Customisation

Editing Post Fields

You can change the fields used in your Trackstar log by editing the post_fields values in the trackstar.yaml config file. The format is:

post_fields:
  field_name: conversation_method

where conversation_method is a Ruby String method for type conversion.

Editing Post Formatting

You can add formatting to the post Markdown by editing the post_formatting values in the trackstar.yaml config file. The format is:

post_formatting:
  field_name: formatting_method

where formatting_method is a method implemented in the Trackstar::Post class to add formatting after a field.

Currently supported formatting methods:

• hr_after: Adds a horizontal rule after the field

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release to create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Testing

To run tests:

$ rake test

Contributing

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/dorkrawk/trackstar/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request