Time Tracking without Lapsus

May 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Questions

1. Are you interested in Lapsus, but want something right now?

2. Do you use TextMate for much of your work?

Yes and Yes

Then this post is for you. I’ve found an application that:

1. Watches TextMate and looks at the path of the front window.

2. If this path is within the path of your project directory, it assigns the time to that project.

3. Exports times in text format.

4. Operates entirely via the command line.

5. Is free!

What is it?

It’s a lovely little Ruby script called MateWatch made by the talented folk at Argument From Design.

Of course, it doesn’t have all the fancy features that Lapsus will have. And it only tracks time in TextMate. And it doesn’t have a GUI.

But since it’s open source, I could change it to watch XCode instead. I guess you could modify it more extensively to suit your needs.

And because it logs to plain old text files, you could build a little script to send this data to any web service of your choosing.

All in all, MateWatch is a rather nice little tool. Thanks, Argument From Design.

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