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I'm manually noting down durations in timedot format (https://hledger.org/hledger.html#timedot-format) in a text file.

For example, today's entry as of 18:32 is:

    2021-01-03
    leisure:anime       .......................
    leisure:social      ..
    sleep               6.5h
    chores:foodprep     .
    chores:regular      .
    leisure:social      ......
    leisure:ttrpg:play  ..........
Each dot is 15 minutes, so I'm missing a bit of time today. Oh well.

I think that having a timer app which lets me start / stop timers individually and give them names would be helpful. The one I'm currently using, on my phone, just has a single stopwatch.



Shameless plug: I wrote a little Python timer for Linux that works great with a dropdown terminal like Yakuake: https://github.com/qiolol/timerBeetle

I often use it for timed tasks, and it's faster than reaching for my phone or even opening a browser tab (and, unlike a Google or DDG timer, it doesn't keep ringing until you re-raise the browser window, find the tab, and silence it, which always annoyed me). : p


The font of the entry looks different than normal texts. How is that done?



Thanks!




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