Fsk141

After using todo.txt for years, I’ve realized that a crucial feature has been missing. I’ve been doing tasks, completing them; and then wondering curiously how much time I spent on something after the fact. Well after a quick googling; I found punch-time-manager, and was rewarded with a punch card style time tracking utility. It has a simple punch in/out feature with a reporting function similar to todo.txt. After using punch-time-management for the past couple weeks, I love it; and hope you’ll come to love it too.

1. Setup todo.txt & punch-time-tracking

   # Archlinux && yaourt (automagic)
   yaourt -S todotxt punch-time-tracking
   
   # Manual way
   wget http://cloud.github.com/downloads/ginatrapani/todo.txt-cli/todo.txt_cli-2.8.tar.gz
   wget https://punch-time-tracking.googlecode.com/files/punch-time-tracking-1.3.zip
   
   tar xf todo.txt_cli-2.8.tar.gz
   unzip punch-time-tracking-1.3.zip
   
   # read the readme for todo.txt && setup
   
   # You can add the executables (Punch.py & todo.sh) into a PATH dir or add to .bashrc || .zshrc
   # This is what I have in my .zshrc
   alias todo='/usr/bin/todo.sh -n -d ~/Dropbox/Public/todo.txt/todo.cfg'
   

2. Modify Punch.py with todo.cfg location

   # edit /usr/bin/punch (or Punch.py if you manually setup)
   
   # locate the following && add your config location...
   files = [ "todo.cfg", ".todo.cfg" ]
   
   ## add your specific location if it's different from the predefined defaults
   files = [ "todo.cfg", ".todo.cfg", "Dropbox/Public/todo.txt/todo.cfg" ]
   

3. After setup, add a task to your todo & punch it:

   [fsk141@Hot ~]$ punch in 21
   Start timer on: todo/punch post
   
   [fsk141@Hot ~]$ punch what
   Active task: todo/punch post (0 minutes)
   
   [fsk141@Hot ~]$ punch out
   Stop timer on: todo/punch post
   
   [fsk141@Hot ~]$ punch report
   2011-10-28 (1 hours 43 minutes):
   	do some domain moving... (12 minutes)
   	mutt (1 hours 31 minutes)
   	zfs (0 minutes)
   2011-10-29 (0 minutes):
   	Transdroid (0 minutes)
   2011-11-05 (0 minutes):
   	todo/punch post (0 minutes)
   

In the general spirit of reset.css (http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset), and to help out with some styling for the Fsk141 Framework I’ve pulled together what I call Standardy.css. What it is should help make a standard look across all browsers (well a starting point anyway) For everything that reset.css takes away, this puts it back in a cross browser compliant css method. I just whipped this up last night, and have started testing; everything seems to be alright thus far.
You can view standardy.css below; or download from here: standardy.css

/* Standardy CSS (to use in conjunction with reset.css)
 *
 * License: none (public domain)
 *
 * Pulled together from around the internet & optimized by Jonny Gerold <jonny@fsk141.com>
 *
 */

address,blockquote,body,dd,div,dl,dt,fieldset,form,frame,frameset,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,iframe,noframes,object,ol,p,ul,applet,center,dir,hr,menu,pre { display:block; }
li { display:list-item; }
head { display:none; }
table { display:table; }
tr { display:table-row; }
thead { display:table-header-group; }
tbody { display:table-row-group; }
tfoot { display:table-footer-group; }
col { display:table-column; }
colgroup { display:table-column-group; }
td,th { display:table-cell; }
caption { display:table-caption; text-align:center; }
th { font-weight:bolder; text-align:center; }
body { line-height:1.33; padding:8px; }
h1 { font-size:2em; margin:.67em 0; }
h2 { font-size:1.5em; margin:.83em 0; }
h3 { font-size:1.17em; margin:1em 0; }
h4,p,blockquote,ul,fieldset,form,ol,dl,dir,menu { margin:1.33em 0; }
h5 { font-size:.83em; line-height:1.17em; margin:1.67em 0; }
h6 { font-size:.67em; margin:2.33em 0; }
h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,b,strong { font-weight:bolder; }
blockquote { margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; }
i,cite,em,var,address { font-style:italic; }
pre,tt,code,kbd,samp { font-family:monospace; }
pre { white-space:pre; }
big { font-size:1.17em; }
small,sub,sup { font-size:.83em; }
sub { vertical-align:sub; }
sup { vertical-align:super; }
s,strike,del { text-decoration:line-through; }
hr { border:1px inset; }
ol,ul,dir,menu,dd { margin-left:40px; }
ol { list-style-type:decimal; }
ol ul,ul ol,ul ul,ol ol { margin-bottom:0; margin-top:0; }
u,ins { text-decoration:underline; }
center { text-align:center; }
br:before { content:"\A"; }