Hello,

Will be this plugin available for mobile?

Right now all we can see is the JSON that is used by the plugin with all the timestamps.

Thanks in advanced.

Best regards,
Pedro Reyes.

Currently, only the timer at the top updates

The timer component gets long quickly when working with nested segments. We can add a dropdown arrow similar to the one used by Obsidian for bullet point lists to hide or show sub-segments.

Here's a demo of how that might look like.

I would also like to hide an entire list of segments to make notes less cluttered, but I think that might be a separate issue since there needs to be a change in the overall layout of the component. What do you think?

Problem

Sometimes I forget to start/stop the timer so I just edit the block and change the unix time entries to the time I want. I also change some timings to exact timing like (15:59 becomes 16:00).

Feature

It would be faster if while in edit mode, there was an option to change the start/end time.

I also can look into this and implement it if @Ellpeck or other maintainers approve this.

The total accumulation only tracks up to a day. Would be pretty could if this could track for any amount of time. Might try and play around with this plugin code after work to see if I can find a solution to go with this issue.

Read Mode

Note: that since this uses a 12hr format with no am/pm, it looks the same, but the timestamps are different, I set it to be a full 24 hour day. Though the day does show as the next which helps

Code Block showing timestamps:

Feature request

Brief description

It would be great to have Enter key (Return key) start timer and accept edits made to segments.

Requirements

This input is only processed if string is present in segment name field.

In reading view once a timer is started it no longer renders, it shows up as a block of code.

Everything works as it should in live preview.

This is what I am seeing in reading view:

And this is what I see in Live Preview:

Would it be possible to have the total to read in hh:mm:ss. This would make it easier to cop the total duration into a spreadsheet for tracking client fees. At the moment I have to type it manually.

Thanks.

If possible, getting to Dataview will be great. So that users can generate time spend on projects each week/day/month.

Should actually show neither start, nor end time

RT, or a way to find which one is still running to prevent from forgetting

Seen tasktxt before? https://youtu.be/HOYO0c_D6w0

Some similar ideas around timers alongside text, maybe something will inspire you.

Hello there,

while experimenting with different things, I noticed errors and non-working behaviour of your plugin when using it on a canvas.

Console shows:

Not very helpful... To reproduce this, include a page with a tracker in a canvas and try to start and stop the timer from there.

When timers are nested, they are indented in the main display. When copied as a table, sub-entries are not indented.

Since Markdown tables don't support indenting in table cells, non-breaking space HTML entities could be used, or a character like a dash could be used. I tried both and think dashes better communicate the indent level.

I would be happy to implement this as a PR.

Hi @Ellpeck

first of all, thank you very much for this plugin. I use it almost daily and have been loving it so far.

I often find myself forgetting to start a timer when I start working. So what I usually do is to start it when I notice and edit the start date later on. However, this is somewhat inconvenient, as the times are stored as unix epoch timestamps, which means I have to use a different tool to calculate the timestamp and paste the result over.

To improve on this, I could imagine two ways:

1. Store the times in a ISO-8601 (i.e. like 2023-10-16T14:10:10+00:00) or similar encoding, that is human readable. This way the time could be edited through the source view.
2. Allow to edit the times through the user interface. There already is an edit button for the entry name. A click on that button could make the times editable as well and save them as unix epoch timestamps on confirmation.

From a usability standpoint, the second would probably be better, but the first one should be easier to implement.

If you want to, I could look into that. I just did not want to start anything before consulting you on this.

Cheers,
Luc

1. First, there's a visual bug that shows the year 1969 when we try to continue a segment
2. I would like to suggest the ability to continue a segment without create new parts.

Hey there,
it would be great if there is a setting to automatically resume the timer when entering the note and pause it when leaving the note. You can then track how much time do you spend on one note.

Currently, the time code is stored as an integer. When I am reading my daily note or the CSV my brain has difficulty in determining date and time as we know it. Besides, using the integer timestamp might introduce problems if the time parsing library happens to use a different epoch. Like, excel and matlab use different epochs.

I know it puts more load on the parsing process when the simple time tracker is loaded, but as I want to use my MarkDown notes also outside Obsidian and Simple Time Tracker I would be very happy if date time is stored in a neutral, globally known format. In something like ISO8601.
This would also save me a lot of trouble correcting date and time when I started the tracker too late or want to add extra entries manually.

I was wondering if there was any way that I can have the time display go from days, hours, seconds to just hours and mins and seconds? Since I use it mostly as a hour tracker for how long I worked for a specific task so I feel that having hours is just a better visual read. Something akin to steam

Hey there !

I noticed that currently, if you use that plugin while in Live preview mode from Obsidian, you end up with a page that goes down each time you click on a button of the timer. It doesn't happen in Reading View mode, fortunately.

I don't know if there's much to do, but as it is quite easy to reproduce, I hope something can be done !

# test

this is a note

```simple-time-tracker
{"entries":[{"name":"test","startTime":"2023-12-11T17:15:41.613Z","endTime":"2023-12-11T17:15:51.088Z","subEntries":null}]}
```


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Thanks for this plugin! It works great and is really valuable for time tracking at work (I'm a lawyer and have to track time in 6 min increments for billing).

Is it possible that the plugin could be made to allow entry of a new time tracking item while another item is running? Right now the segment name box, where you enter the task details, can't be edited while another task is running.

To accurately capture time, it would be terrific if I could enter a new segment name while another entry is currently running, hit the start/stop button, and have that button: (1) stop the currently running entry; (2) start the entry that I just named. Right now, I have to stop the currently running task before I can enter a new task name and start the timer on that, meaning there are (admittedly small) time gaps between entries while no timer is running.

I don't know how hard this would be to code, and it's really more of a small quality of life request, so no worries if it would be too much of a pain. But I do think it would be a nice little enhancement to the timer's function if it wouldn't be too much of a timesink.

Again, thanks for making this plugin. It has already proved really valuable!

Have you heard of Supermemo? I always use it. And find you plugin function may be implement Supermemo plan function. Can you implement this function?
https://help.supermemo.org/wiki/Plan

Great start to the plugin!

For the future, please consider adding the ability to trigger the timers with hotkeys.

Currently I just run 1 timer at a time, so a "start" trigger should prompt for the "Segment name", and a "stop" trigger should just stop the running timer.

If other people run multiple timers, I could see a need to prompt for the segment to affect with the start/stop trigger.

Thanks!

I think the risk of accidentally deleting a segment/entry is too high.
Could you add a simple confirmation popup when deleting something?

Hi,
really loving this plugin, finding a lot of uses for it already.

The one thing I'd love to see added is the ability to continue tracking from a previous timer, because this way, if they're all chunked up during the chaos of the day, I have to calculate the total time per task at the end of the day.

Thanks and once again, great work with the plugin.

Hi, not sure why this feature was removed in 0.2.0 but I used to edit the time as it was running and now it's not possible.

Hi, great extension you've created!
I'm trying to get export to work where it automatically creates additional columns for sub-tasks:

Basically, I think that the "part 1" and "part 2", as sub-tasks underneath "thing 4", should have their own empty csv column, and start being listed in the second column. You'd have to have a variable number of columns before the "start" and "end" time columns, in order to represent sub-task levels in this way. But I think it would be better / more intuitive.

Also, I tried coding up a solution that would simply detect the blank spaces in the timestamps, to auto-indent the stuff below. But in fact, it's not possible to do this, because there's no way to recognize when we've hit the last item in a sub-hierarchy! Eg. After Part 1, the task "Thing 5" is not recognizable as its own top-level task. This means no program analyzing it (or really, any person who didn't know about the tasks) would be able to recognize where a sub-task list ends and a new top-level task begins, as far as I can tell.

I've noticed that trackers contained inside a callout don't behave as expected. In Live Preview mode, the tracker won't start at all. In Reading mode, the tracker starts and instantly stops, generating an entry something like this:

Not sure if there's a way to code around this, but it would amazing if the trackers could be run from inside a callout. I'm thinking particularly of the aside and/or column callouts that various creators have made, which would allow the tracker to be placed alongside other text, such as a checklist.

I would love a way to have my current timer in the Mac toolbar and be able to see the current running time there as well being able to start stop the timer there.
I really don't know if and how it is possible to interact with obsidian plugins at this place but maybe a first step would be to have the possibility to trigger the last used (current) timer with a hotkey or obsidian command. I think then I could find a way to trigger this from my Mac using automator or something like that (maybe someone has an idea?) :D

This would make my freelancing work so much nicer!

Sometimes I forget to switch the timer off. I then usually have a rough idea of how much time I spent on this particular chunk of work. So I then edit the codeblock to something close to this.

The problem I have: The code looks like this:
"startTime":1666021639,"endTime":1666027580}

This makes it very hard to adjust the time, It would be fantastic if the time parameters could be made editable like the segment name. Switching fields could easily be done by using the tab key.

Future suggestion: provide a list of segments to choose from when starting a timer.

Perhaps based on existing segments in the current timer block, with an option to type in a new one.

Or, based on a pre-defined list.

When switching between the same named segments during the work day, having to type them in can lead to errors.

Thanks!

Hello,
Thanks a lot for your plugin in obsidian.

Could you please add more segment or more column ?
In my way of working and time tracking, I add some #keyword and some information or link to note 📧 mail to test [test](test.md)

With the "segment" I cannot easly add this informations while I start the counter

This an example of manual time-tracking

This an example with your time-tracking

Thanks a lot

First of all: This is such a cool plugin. I use it A LOT to track the time spent on writing projects and divide time into tasks like research, drafting, writing and so forth.

There is one glitch:
I am using the Android client on my smartphone and tablet. On the smaller display, I cannot get to the edit handles on the right side as they are cut off. For some reason, I cannot even scroll there. the only solution is to enable rotation and go into widescreen mode.

EDIT:
I just checked: The same happens on desktop once the note width is narrow enough. At first, the fields reflow nicely (GREAT!!!) but once they are still too wide, the block gets cut off:

Maybe the fields could vanish one by one. If I may, I would suggest this order of dissappearing:

1. End time
2. Start time
3. Duration

This way, the timer could always be read and edited.

See #43 for more info about this, specifically this comment