Show HN: Time-tracker that helps me with context switches and documentation

Hi HN!


I was feeling incredibly frustrated with my struggles in context-switching and writing documentation, so I decided to take action and find a solution.


I wrote a simple tool for Alfred and Raycast that helps me be more mindful when switching between tasks, which can even prevent some of those switches. Plus, I can jot down quick notes on each task as I go, making it easier to document everything once I’m finished.


This tool is really simple with only 5 commands - tsr, tsn, tsl, tsv, tse


tsr writes a new record


tsn writes a new note


tsl shows you the current task


tsv builds a static html page displaying a single timeline of the tasks and notes


tse opens the directory where records are stored for easy manual editing


TSR stores your data as simple csv files in ~/tsr, making it super easy to integrate with other tools or perform your own custom analysis and visualisation magic. The built-in tsv timeline visualisation is rather simple and doesn’t do any analysis (for now at least).


It depends solely on Python3 and works offline. I encourage you to check the python scripts to see how simple they are and potentially adapt them to your own needs.


Let me know what you think!



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