I tend to forget to log my time, then I tend to forget what I did and for how long. The idea of this is to have a popup on my screen every hour that displays a text box and asks me what I did. I enter a short line saying what I was doing.

hour_log_pest

#!/bin/sh

DISPLAY=:0
export DISPLAY


prompt_dialog ()
{
    text=$(zenity --text-info --title="what have you been working on?"  --editable)
    length=${#text}
    if [ $length -lt 1 ]
    then
        $(zenity --question --text="you entered nothing. Have you been doing nothing?")
        case $? in
            0)
                echo "0"
                return;;
        esac

        prompt_dialog

    else
        # do it here becuase if I lag or went out for lunch / left early I can get a accurate date
        full_date=$(date +%F)
        time_log_file=/home/jjrh/hour_logs/$full_date

        d=$(date)

        echo $d | cut -f4 -d ' ' >> $time_log_file
        echo $text >> $time_log_file
        echo "----------" >> $time_log_file
    fi
}

prompt_dialog


#  crontab ......
#  m h     dom mon dow
#  1 9-17  *   *   *    /home/jjrh/scripts/hour_log_pest
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