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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ot? : how to track and bill my work under gentoo
Date: Mon, 02 May 2011 21:47:45
Message-Id: 201105022246.48427.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] ot? : how to track and bill my work under gentoo by "Stefan G. Weichinger"
1 On Monday 02 May 2011 22:33:03 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
2 > greets,
3 >
4 > I assume that many of you earn your money by working w/ computers, in
5 > IT, programming, hacking, "being root" ;-)
6 >
7 > I do and I always have the nagging feeling that I somehow lose money by
8 > not being able to easily track my work.
9 >
10 > A typical workday consists of getting emails, receiving calls ...
11 > hopping from one customer to another, doing admin-work here and there.
12 >
13 > It is quite hard to keep track here.
14 >
15 > I use the hamster applet under Gnome:
16 >
17 > http://projecthamster.wordpress.com/
18 >
19 > I use it on my main machine, unfortunately it is not yet able to store
20 > its db somewhere on the net, so I don't use it on my thinkpad (I would
21 > have to somehow merge lists when writing bills).
22 >
23 > A thought would be to look at the logs of my ssh-client ;-)
24 >
25 > Long story ...
26 >
27 > The question: how do you handle this?
28 > Any special hints, any ebuilds to look at?
29 >
30 > Thanks a lot, Stefan
31
32 I don't use Gnome so can't advise for Gnome only apps, but KDE's Kontact suite
33 has Time Tracker.
34
35 For a DE independent application you may want to have a look at Task Coach:
36
37 $ eix -l taskcoach
38 * app-office/taskcoach
39 Available versions:
40 1.1.4-r1 "amd64 x86" [libnotify]
41 ~ 1.2.12 "~amd64 ~x86" [libnotify]
42 ~ 1.2.15 "~amd64 ~x86" [libnotify]
43 ~ 1.2.16 "~amd64 ~x86" [libnotify]
44 Homepage: http://www.taskcoach.org
45 http://pypi.python.org/pypi/TaskCoach
46 Description: Simple personal tasks and todo lists manager
47
48 No doubt there are similar webapps online these days, but have not had a look
49 yet.
50 --
51 Regards,
52 Mick

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