shift (st)

shift is a time tracker written in Rust and designed to be simple but effective to use for tracking time between projects. Simply start a task with st start task1 and once finished use st stop. shift stores each of these events in a sqlite3 database which is by default located at $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/.local/share/st/events.db or $HOME/.local/share/st/events.db.

Installation

git clone https://github.com/OscarCreator/shift
cd shift
cargo install --path .

Examples

shift has a few commands to

Show all available commands.

st help

Start two tasks and stop one. If only one task in ongoing then no need to specify which task to stop.

st start task1
st start task2
st stop task1

Pause ongoing task(s) for later resuming. This works well if you have multiple tasks ongoing and will just take a short break st pause --all and then resume with st resume --all.

st start task1
st pause
st resume

Show events up to 2024-02-10 02:50.

st log --all --to "2024-02-10 02:50"

Inspired by

• Watson