calenTools

Purpose: run many tools on your list of calendars on Google Calendar from the command line.

Written in Java, uses Gradle utilizes Google API

Different methods:

• summary
  • inputs: date start, date end
  • outputs: category name - hours spent (for all calendars)
• hoursSpent
  • inputs: date start, date end, category name
  • output: hours

How to use:

• Clone this repo
• Create a new Google project, enable Google Calendar API
• Make sure you have gradle installed (brew install gradle)
• Make sure you have Java 1.7 (or higher) installed
• Cd into the repo
• $ gradle -q run
  • The first time you run the program, it will open up a new window (or copy and paste the link given) so that you can either enter in your information

Web application interface:

• About the project
• Sync your calendars!
• Select which calendars to include / categories to add
• View graphs
• Start again (goes back to step 3)

Future additions:

• Modifying and adding events to the calendar on the command line
• Calculate overall productivity with the statistics generated
• Predicting future workload
• Predicting future productivity
• Save information into a CSV
• Transfer as a website
• Create a RescueTime like interface that prompts users about what they've doing, and adds it to their Google Calendar

Notes:

• This tool ignores all primary calendar events.
• Any all-day event can cause the script to error. You can change it so that the event shows up on the primary calendar instead of that individual calendar.