TimeKeeper

TimeKeeper is a program to keep track of the time spent during a day or a week. Some years ago, I got this problem myself: During the work day, I spent many moments on all little things I was occupied with, but I forgot which ones and how much. To prevent this problem, I created this little program to do the remembering for me.

To support multiple platforms more easily, I rewrote TimeKeeper in Perl/Tk and Tkx. Because of this, the same program runs under Windows (with ActivePerl) as well as under Linux.

Below are some screenshots of TimeKeeper.

A report of the past period can be created by means of a log-definition. This report can display the totals for any subset of timers. It can also display a timeline with start- and end-times for each timer. This log-definition is written in perl, so any calculation and formatting is possible.

Download here the latest version of TimeKeeper (Note that TimeKeeper is always under development).

Features are:

• Portable perl implementation.
• No compilation or development environment needed.
• Configurable number of timers. Name the timers any way you want.
• Configurable number of reports, defined in perl.
• An automatic, server-less synchronization protocol has been specified but not not yet implemented. This allows synchronization between all devices as well as working offline.
• Supports a graphical user interface in Perl/Tk or Tkx, but also a simple text-based interface.
• An HTML5/Javascript frontend is being worked on (slowly).
• Separate storage module for file-based backend.
• Reports can aggregate timers into totals and/or report as (sanitized) timelines.
• Reports can be output as text, csv, xml or any other format.
• Functions also as a clock, displaying date, time, week number, GMT, UNIX timestamp and (future-ready) Stardate.