Commands

add

Usage:  watson add [OPTIONS] [ARGS]...

Add time to a project with tag(s) that was not tracked live.

Example:

$ watson add --from "2018-03-20 12:00:00" --to "2018-03-20 13:00:00" \
 programming +addfeature

Options

Flag	Help
-f, --from DATETIME	Date and time of start of tracked activity [required]
-t, --to DATETIME	Date and time of end of tracked activity [required]
-c, --confirm-new-project	Confirm addition of new project.
-b, --confirm-new-tag	Confirm creation of new tag.
--help	Show this message and exit.

aggregate

Usage:  watson aggregate [OPTIONS]

Display a report of the time spent on each project aggregated by day.

If a project is given, the time spent on this project is printed. Else, print the total for each root project.

By default, the time spent the last 7 days is printed. This timespan can be controlled with the --from and --to arguments. The dates must have the format YEAR-MONTH-DAY, like: 2014-05-19.

You can limit the report to a project or a tag using the --project and --tag options. They can be specified several times each to add multiple projects or tags to the report.

If you are outputting to the terminal, you can selectively enable a pager through the --pager option.

You can change the output format from plain text to JSON using the --json option or to CSV using the --csv option. Only one of these two options can be used at once.

Example:

$ watson aggregate
Wed 14 November 2018 - 5h 42m 22s
  watson - 5h 42m 22s
        [features     34m 06s]
        [docs  5h 08m 16s]

Thu 15 November 2018 - 00s

Fri 16 November 2018 - 00s

Sat 17 November 2018 - 00s

Sun 18 November 2018 - 00s

Mon 19 November 2018 - 5h 58m 52s
  watson - 5h 58m 52s
        [features  1h 12m 03s]
        [docs  4h 46m 49s]

Tue 20 November 2018 - 2h 50m 35s
  watson - 2h 50m 35s
        [features     15m 17s]
        [docs  1h 37m 43s]
        [website     57m 35s]

Wed 21 November 2018 - 01m 17s
  watson - 01m 17s
        [docs     01m 17s]

$ watson aggregate --csv
from,to,project,tag,time
2018-11-14 00:00:00,2018-11-14 23:59:59,watson,,20542.0
2018-11-14 00:00:00,2018-11-14 23:59:59,watson,features,2046.0
2018-11-14 00:00:00,2018-11-14 23:59:59,watson,docs,18496.0
2018-11-19 00:00:00,2018-11-19 23:59:59,watson,,21532.0
2018-11-19 00:00:00,2018-11-19 23:59:59,watson,features,4323.0
2018-11-19 00:00:00,2018-11-19 23:59:59,watson,docs,17209.0
2018-11-20 00:00:00,2018-11-20 23:59:59,watson,,10235.0
2018-11-20 00:00:00,2018-11-20 23:59:59,watson,features,917.0
2018-11-20 00:00:00,2018-11-20 23:59:59,watson,docs,5863.0
2018-11-20 00:00:00,2018-11-20 23:59:59,watson,website,3455.0
2018-11-21 00:00:00,2018-11-21 23:59:59,watson,,77.0
2018-11-21 00:00:00,2018-11-21 23:59:59,watson,docs,77.0

Options

Flag	Help
-c, --current / -C, --no-current	(Don’t) include currently running frame in report.
-f, --from DATETIME	The date from when the report should start. Defaults to seven days ago.
-t, --to DATETIME	The date at which the report should stop (inclusive). Defaults to tomorrow.
-p, --project TEXT	Reports activity only for the given project. You can add other projects by using this option several times.
-T, --tag TEXT	Reports activity only for frames containing the given tag. You can add several tags by using this option multiple times
-j, --json	Format output in JSON instead of plain text
-s, --csv	Format output in CSV instead of plain text
-g, --pager / -G, --no-pager	(Don’t) view output through a pager.
--help	Show this message and exit.

cancel

Usage:  watson cancel [OPTIONS]

Cancel the last call to the start command. The time will not be recorded.

Options

Flag	Help
--help	Show this message and exit.

config

Usage:  watson config [OPTIONS] SECTION.OPTION [VALUE]

Get and set configuration options.

If value is not provided, the content of the key is displayed. Else, the given value is set.

You can edit the config file with an editor with the --edit option.

Example:

$ watson config backend.token 7e329263e329
$ watson config backend.token
7e329263e329

Options

Flag	Help
-e, --edit	Edit the configuration file with an editor.
--help	Show this message and exit.

edit

Usage:  watson edit [OPTIONS] [ID]

Edit a frame.

You can specify the frame to edit by its position or by its frame id. For example, to edit the second-to-last frame, pass -2 as the frame index. You can get the id of a frame with the watson log command.

If no id or index is given, the frame defaults to the current frame (or the last recorded frame, if no project is currently running).

The editor used is determined by the VISUAL or EDITOR environment variables (in that order) and defaults to notepad on Windows systems and to vim, nano, or vi (first one found) on all other systems.

Options

Flag	Help
-c, --confirm-new-project	Confirm addition of new project.
-b, --confirm-new-tag	Confirm creation of new tag.
--help	Show this message and exit.

frames

Usage:  watson frames [OPTIONS]

Display the list of all frame IDs.

Example:

$ watson frames
f1c4815
9d1a989
8801ec3
[...]

Options

Flag	Help
--help	Show this message and exit.

help

Usage:  watson help [OPTIONS] [COMMAND]

Display help information

Options

Flag	Help
--help	Show this message and exit.

log

Usage:  watson log [OPTIONS]

Display each recorded session during the given timespan.

By default, the sessions from the last 7 days are printed. This timespan can be controlled with the --from and --to arguments. The dates must have the format YEAR-MONTH-DAY, like: 2014-05-19.

You can also use special shortcut options for easier timespan control: --day sets the log timespan to the current day (beginning at 00:00h) and --year, --month and --week to the current year, month, or week, respectively. The shortcut --luna sets the timespan to the current moon cycle with the last full moon marking the start of the cycle.

If you are outputting to the terminal, you can selectively enable a pager through the --pager option.

You can limit the log to a project or a tag using the --project, --tag, --ignore-project and --ignore-tag options. They can be specified several times each to add or ignore multiple projects or tags in the log.

You can change the output format from plain text to JSON using the --json option or to CSV using the --csv option. Only one of these two options can be used at once.

Example:

$ watson log --project voyager2 --project apollo11
Thursday 08 May 2015 (56m 33s)
        f35bb24  09:26 to 10:22      56m 33s  apollo11  [reactor, brakes, steering, wheels, module]

Wednesday 07 May 2015 (27m 29s)
        9a1325d  09:48 to 10:15      27m 29s  voyager2  [sensors, generators, probe]

Tuesday 06 May 2015 (1h 47m 22s)
        530768b  12:40 to 14:16   1h 35m 45s  apollo11  [wheels]
        84164f0  14:23 to 14:35      11m 37s  apollo11  [brakes, steering]

Monday 05 May 2015 (8h 18m 26s)
        26a2817  09:05 to 10:03      57m 12s  voyager2  [probe, generators]
        5590aca  10:51 to 14:47   3h 55m 40s  apollo11
        c32c74e  15:12 to 18:38   3h 25m 34s  voyager2  [probe, generators, sensors, antenna]

$ watson log --from 2014-04-16 --to 2014-04-17
Thursday 17 April 2014 (4h 19m 13s)
        a96fcde  09:15 to 09:43      28m 11s    hubble  [lens, camera, transmission]
        5e91316  10:19 to 12:59   2h 39m 15s    hubble  [camera, transmission]
        761dd51  14:42 to 15:54   1h 11m 47s  voyager1  [antenna]

Wednesday 16 April 2014 (5h 19m 18s)
        02cb269  09:53 to 12:43   2h 50m 07s  apollo11  [wheels]
        1070ddb  13:48 to 16:17   2h 29m 11s  voyager1  [antenna, sensors]

$ watson log --from 2014-04-16 --to 2014-04-17 --csv
id,start,stop,project,tags
a96fcde,2014-04-17 09:15,2014-04-17 09:43,hubble,"lens, camera, transmission"
5e91316,2014-04-17 10:19,2014-04-17 12:59,hubble,"camera, transmission"
761dd51,2014-04-17 14:42,2014-04-17 15:54,voyager1,antenna
02cb269,2014-04-16 09:53,2014-04-16 12:43,apollo11,wheels
1070ddb,2014-04-16 13:48,2014-04-16 16:17,voyager1,"antenna, sensors"

Options

Flag	Help
-c, --current / -C, --no-current	(Don’t) include currently running frame in output.
-r, --reverse / -R, --no-reverse	(Don’t) reverse the order of the days in output.
-f, --from DATETIME	The date from when the log should start. Defaults to seven days ago.
-t, --to DATETIME	The date at which the log should stop (inclusive). Defaults to tomorrow.
-y, --year	Reports activity for the current year.
-m, --month	Reports activity for the current month.
-l, --luna	Reports activity for the current moon cycle.
-w, --week	Reports activity for the current week.
-d, --day	Reports activity for the current day.
-a, --all	Reports all activities.
-p, --project TEXT	Logs activity only for the given project. You can add other projects by using this option several times.
-T, --tag TEXT	Logs activity only for frames containing the given tag. You can add several tags by using this option multiple times
--ignore-project TEXT	Logs activity for all projects but the given ones. You can ignore several projects by using the option multiple times. Any given project will be ignored
--ignore-tag TEXT	Logs activity for all tags but the given ones. You can ignore several tags by using the option multiple times. Any given tag will be ignored
-j, --json	Format output in JSON instead of plain text
-s, --csv	Format output in CSV instead of plain text
-g, --pager / -G, --no-pager	(Don’t) view output through a pager.
--help	Show this message and exit.

merge

Usage:  watson merge [OPTIONS] FRAMES_WITH_CONFLICT

Perform a merge of the existing frames with a conflicting frames file.

When storing the frames on a file hosting service, there is the possibility that the frame file goes out-of-sync due to one or more of the connected clients going offline. This can cause the frames to diverge.

If the --force command is specified, the merge operation will automatically be performed.

The only argument is a path to the the conflicting frames file.

Merge will output statistics about the merge operation.

Example:

$ watson merge frames-with-conflicts
120 frames will be left unchanged
12  frames will be merged
3   frame conflicts need to be resolved

To perform a merge operation, the user will be prompted to select the frame they would like to keep.

Example:

$ watson merge frames-with-conflicts --force
120 frames will be left unchanged
12  frames will be merged
3   frame conflicts need to be resolved
Will resolve conflicts:
frame 8804872:
< {
<     "project": "tailordev",
<     "start": "2015-07-28 09:33:33",
<     "stop": "2015-07-28 10:39:36",
<     "tags": [
<         "intern",
<         "daily-meeting"
<     ]
< }
---
> {
>     "project": "tailordev",
>     "start": "2015-07-28 09:33:33",
>     "stop": "**2015-07-28 11:39:36**",
>     "tags": [
>         "intern",
>         "daily-meeting"
>     ]
> }
Select the frame you want to keep: left or right? (L/r)

Options

Flag	Help
-f, --force	If specified, then the merge will automatically be performed.
--help	Show this message and exit.

projects

Usage:  watson projects [OPTIONS]

Display the list of all the existing projects.

Example:

$ watson projects
apollo11
hubble
voyager1
voyager2

Options

Flag	Help
--help	Show this message and exit.

remove

Usage:  watson remove [OPTIONS] ID

Remove a frame. You can specify the frame either by id or by position (ex: -1 for the last frame).

Options

Flag	Help
-f, --force	Don’t ask for confirmation.
--help	Show this message and exit.

rename

Usage:  watson rename [OPTIONS] TYPE OLD_NAME NEW_NAME

Rename a project or tag.

Example:

$ watson rename project read-python-intro learn-python
Renamed project "read-python-intro" to "learn-python"
$ watson rename tag company-meeting meeting
Renamed tag "company-meeting" to "meeting"

Options

Flag	Help
--help	Show this message and exit.

report

Usage:  watson report [OPTIONS]

Display a report of the time spent on each project.

If a project is given, the time spent on this project is printed. Else, print the total for each root project.

By default, the time spent the last 7 days is printed. This timespan can be controlled with the --from and --to arguments. The dates must have the format YEAR-MONTH-DAY, like: 2014-05-19.

You can also use special shortcut options for easier timespan control: --day sets the report timespan to the current day (beginning at 00:00h) and --year, --month and --week to the current year, month, or week, respectively. The shortcut --luna sets the timespan to the current moon cycle with the last full moon marking the start of the cycle.

You can limit the report to a project or a tag using the --project, --tag, --ignore-project and --ignore-tag options. They can be specified several times each to add or ignore multiple projects or tags to the report.

If you are outputting to the terminal, you can selectively enable a pager through the --pager option.

You can change the output format for the report from plain text to JSON using the --json option or to CSV using the --csv option. Only one of these two options can be used at once.

Example:

$ watson report
Mon 05 May 2014 -> Mon 12 May 2014

apollo11 - 13h 22m 20s
        [brakes    7h 53m 18s]
        [module    7h 41m 41s]
        [reactor   8h 35m 50s]
        [steering 10h 33m 37s]
        [wheels   10h 11m 35s]

hubble - 8h 54m 46s
        [camera        8h 38m 17s]
        [lens          5h 56m 22s]
        [transmission  6h 27m 07s]

voyager1 - 11h 45m 13s
        [antenna     5h 53m 57s]
        [generators  9h 04m 58s]
        [probe      10h 14m 29s]
        [sensors    10h 30m 26s]

voyager2 - 16h 16m 09s
        [antenna     7h 05m 50s]
        [generators 12h 20m 29s]
        [probe      12h 20m 29s]
        [sensors    11h 23m 17s]

Total: 43h 42m 20s

$ watson report --from 2014-04-01 --to 2014-04-30 --project apollo11
Tue 01 April 2014 -> Wed 30 April 2014

apollo11 - 13h 22m 20s
        [brakes    7h 53m 18s]
        [module    7h 41m 41s]
        [reactor   8h 35m 50s]
        [steering 10h 33m 37s]
        [wheels   10h 11m 35s]

$ watson report --json
{
    "projects": [
        {
            "name": "watson",
            "tags": [
                {
                    "name": "export",
                    "time": 530.0
                },
                {
                    "name": "report",
                    "time": 530.0
                }
            ],
            "time": 530.0
        }
    ],
    "time": 530.0,
    "timespan": {
        "from": "2016-02-21T00:00:00-08:00",
        "to": "2016-02-28T23:59:59.999999-08:00"
    }
}

$ watson report --from 2014-04-01 --to 2014-04-30 --project apollo11 --csv
from,to,project,tag,time
2014-04-01 00:00:00,2014-04-30 23:59:59,apollo11,,48140.0
2014-04-01 00:00:00,2014-04-30 23:59:59,apollo11,brakes,28421.0
2014-04-01 00:00:00,2014-04-30 23:59:59,apollo11,module,27701.0
2014-04-01 00:00:00,2014-04-30 23:59:59,apollo11,reactor,30950.0
2014-04-01 00:00:00,2014-04-30 23:59:59,apollo11,steering,38017.0
2014-04-01 00:00:00,2014-04-30 23:59:59,apollo11,wheels,36695.0

Options

Flag	Help
-c, --current / -C, --no-current	(Don’t) include currently running frame in report.
-f, --from DATETIME	The date from when the report should start. Defaults to seven days ago.
-t, --to DATETIME	The date at which the report should stop (inclusive). Defaults to tomorrow.
-y, --year	Reports activity for the current year.
-m, --month	Reports activity for the current month.
-l, --luna	Reports activity for the current moon cycle.
-w, --week	Reports activity for the current week.
-d, --day	Reports activity for the current day.
-a, --all	Reports all activities.
-p, --project TEXT	Reports activity only for the given project. You can add other projects by using this option several times.
-T, --tag TEXT	Reports activity only for frames containing the given tag. You can add several tags by using this option multiple times
--ignore-project TEXT	Reports activity for all projects but the given ones. You can ignore several projects by using the option multiple times. Any given project will be ignored
--ignore-tag TEXT	Reports activity for all tags but the given ones. You can ignore several tags by using the option multiple times. Any given tag will be ignored
-j, --json	Format output in JSON instead of plain text
-s, --csv	Format output in CSV instead of plain text
-g, --pager / -G, --no-pager	(Don’t) view output through a pager.
--help	Show this message and exit.

restart

Usage:  watson restart [OPTIONS] [ID]

Restart monitoring time for a previously stopped project.

By default, the project from the last frame, which was recorded, is restarted, using the same tags as recorded in that frame. You can specify the frame to use with an integer frame index argument or a frame ID. For example, to restart the second-to-last frame, pass -2 as the frame index.

Normally, if a project is currently started, Watson will print an error and do nothing. If you set the configuration option options.stop_on_restart to a true value (1, on, true, or yes), the current project, if any, will be stopped before the new frame is started. You can pass the option -s or --stop resp. -S or --no-stop to override the default or configured behaviour.

If no previous frame exists or an invalid frame index or ID was given, an error is printed and no further action taken.

Example:

$ watson start apollo11 +module +brakes
Starting project apollo11 [module, brakes] at 16:34
$ watson stop
Stopping project apollo11, started a minute ago. (id: e7ccd52)
$ watson restart
Starting project apollo11 [module, brakes] at 16:36

If the --no-gap flag is given, the start time of the new project is set to the stop time of the most recently stopped project.

Options

Flag	Help
--at DATETIME	Start frame at this time. Must be in (YYYY-MM-DDT)?HH:MM(:SS)? format.
-g, --gap / -G, --no-gap	(Don’t) leave gap between end time of previous project and start time of the current.
-s, --stop / -S, --no-stop	(Don’t) Stop an already running project.
--help	Show this message and exit.

start

Usage:  watson start [OPTIONS] [ARGS]...

Start monitoring time for the given project. You can add tags indicating more specifically what you are working on with +tag.

If there is already a running project and the configuration option options.stop_on_start is set to a true value (1, on, true, or yes), it is stopped before the new project is started.

If --at option is given, the provided starting time is used. The specified time must be after the end of the previous frame and must not be in the future.

Example:

$ watson start --at 13:37
Starting project apollo11 at 13:37

If the --no-gap flag is given, the start time of the new project is set to the stop time of the most recently stopped project.

Example:

$ watson start apollo11 +module +brakes --no-gap
Starting project apollo11 [module, brakes] at 16:34

Options

Flag	Help
--at DATETIME	Start frame at this time. Must be in (YYYY-MM-DDT)?HH:MM(:SS)? format.
-g, --gap / -G, --no-gap	(Don’t) leave gap between end time of previous project and start time of the current.
-c, --confirm-new-project	Confirm addition of new project.
-b, --confirm-new-tag	Confirm creation of new tag.
--help	Show this message and exit.

status

Usage:  watson status [OPTIONS]

Display when the current project was started and the time spent since.

You can configure how the date and time of when the project was started are displayed by setting options.date_format and options.time_format in the configuration. The syntax of these formatting strings and the supported placeholders are the same as for the strftime method of Python’s datetime.datetime class.

Example:

$ watson status
Project apollo11 [brakes] started seconds ago (2014-05-19 14:32:41+0100)
$ watson config options.date_format %d.%m.%Y
$ watson config options.time_format "at %I:%M %p"
$ watson status
Project apollo11 [brakes] started a minute ago (19.05.2014 at 02:32 PM)

Options

Flag	Help
-p, --project	only output project
-t, --tags	only show tags
-e, --elapsed	only show time elapsed
--help	Show this message and exit.

stop

Usage:  watson stop [OPTIONS]

Stop monitoring time for the current project.

If --at option is given, the provided stopping time is used. The specified time must be after the beginning of the to-be-ended frame and must not be in the future.

Example:

$ watson stop --at 13:37
Stopping project apollo11, started an hour ago and stopped 30 minutes ago. (id: e9ccd52) # noqa: E501

Options

Flag	Help
--at DATETIME	Stop frame at this time. Must be in (YYYY-MM-DDT)?HH:MM(:SS)? format.
--help	Show this message and exit.

sync

Usage:  watson sync [OPTIONS]

Get the frames from the server and push the new ones.

The URL of the server and the User Token must be defined via the watson config command.

Example:

$ watson config backend.url http://localhost:4242
$ watson config backend.token 7e329263e329
$ watson sync
Received 42 frames from the server
Pushed 23 frames to the server

Options

Flag	Help
--help	Show this message and exit.

tags

Usage:  watson tags [OPTIONS]

Display the list of all the tags.

Example:

$ watson tags
antenna
brakes
camera
generators
lens
module
probe
reactor
sensors
steering
transmission
wheels

Options

Flag	Help
--help	Show this message and exit.