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Introduction

http://demo.qmonix.com/event/awesome_time_tracker/github_view.png

Awesome Time Tracking tool for awesome window manager.

  1. Using Awesome WM prompt widget You are able to rapidly enter the task You're currently working on [1].

res/img/start_task.png

  1. Reports are powered by Qmonix analytics SDK, so this gives us nice charts and allows us to collect/store our task data with no hustle.

res/img/qmonix.png

Dependencies

  1. Qmonix Lua SDK [3]. To retrieve it simply type in Your terminal:
$ git submodule update --init

Installation

Qmonix

First of all You must install Qmonix [2] server on Your local or remote machine. It is explained in here http://docs.qmonix.com/latest/installation/index.html.

Awesome Time Tracker

$ make build
$ make install

will build and install Awesome Time Tracker to ~/.config/awesome by default. To change installation dir, specify variable INSTALL_PATH before invoking make install:

$ INSTALL_PATH="/etc/xdg/awesome" make install

I suggest You to provide INSTALL_PATH directory where rc.lua is located.

When You have installed time tracker files to the right location, let's enable some conveniences key bindings in Awesome WM. We'll be using to key bindings:

  1. cttrl+alt+a - displays the prompt widget where You can type the name of new task/activity.
  2. ctrl+alt+s - stops the task, if one was started. At this point task duration event is sent to Qmonix server.
  3. ctrl+alt+c - display currently started task.

You must modify Your rc.lua config file to enable new key bindings:

 local awesome_time_tracker = require "time_tracker"
 local time_tracker = awesome_time_tracker.create("http://localhost:8337")
 function time_tracker_set_activity(activity)
         time_tracker:set_activity(activity)
 end

 globalkeys = awful.util.table.join(
         ...

         -- Awesome Time Tracker.
         awful.key({"Mod1", "Control"}, "s", function ()
                 time_tracker:stop_current_activity()
         end),

         awful.key({"Mod1", "Control"}, "c", function ()
                 time_tracker:show_current_activity()
         end),

         awful.key({"Mod1", "Control" }, "a", function ()
                 awful.prompt.run({ prompt = "Start new task: " },
                 mypromptbox[mouse.screen].widget,
                 time_tracker_set_activity, nil,
                 awful.util.getdir("cache") .. "/history_eval")
         end),

        ...
)

That's it. Restart Your Awesome WM to apply the config changes and You should be all set.

To test if everything works fine, press ctrl+alt+a and You should be prompted with "Start new task:". Press ctrl+alt+s and open http://localhost:8337 in Your Web browser. Now You should be able to find Your tasks in Qmonix dashboardl. Press ctrl+alt+c to see the name of currently started task.

TODO

[ ] Implement Chromium extension.

References

[1]http://awesome.naquadah.org/doc/api/modules/awful.widget.prompt.html
[2]http://qmonix.com
[3]https://github.com/qmonix/client-lua