Track your time with the Timeular cube and Hackaru
Timeular (https://timeular.com/) offers a hardware and a software component that helps you to keep track of your time. The great thing is, that you can use the hardware without their software. I really like the idea of the hardware cube. It simply is physically present right besides you. When using the Timeular cube, it is rare that I forget to start or stop the timer for a task. If you want to learn more about the tracker, visit https://timeular.com/tracker/.
I have not looked into the time tracking software from Timeular as I already have a Hackaru which works really well for me. This led to the creation of hackaru-timeular, a small Python program that connects a Timeular cube to Hackaru.
hackaru-timeular is available via PiPy and can be installed as simple as pip install hackaru-timeular.
hackaru-timeular is configured in the configuration file $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/hackaru-timeular/config.yml.
The following example shows how to configure hackaru-timeular to connect to your Timeular cube and a Hackaru instance.
# The bluetooth address of your Timeular cube
address: 00:11:22:33:FF:EE
# The API URL of the Hackaru instance
endpoint: "https://api.hackaru.app"
# The Email address connected to you Hackaru account
email: [email protected]
# A list of tasks resembling the tasks in your Hackaru instance
tasks:
task-1:
id: 3 # The Hackaru project id
description: Describe what you do
daily:
id: 4
description: Daily
coding:
id: 5
description: Coding
# The mapping of Timeular cube sides to Hackaru tasks
mapping:
1: task-1
2: daily
3: coding
The first time you start hackaru-timeular you have to enter your password to login. The login information (cookie) is stored at $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/hackaru-timeular/cookies.txt.