Time tracking (permanent)

Feature Requests
1

I don’t know if this should go to feature-requests or to Any-Case. Probably feature-requests because it’s only a plan now.

What Do You Recommend?

Dear developers please implement this or I’ll start implementing this myself. So please tell me if it’s doable. Validate please I mean.

How Could It Be Done?

UI: 
	show current.object (currently tracked)
	button1 "Select this object as current task" 
	button2 "Stop tracking" 
null is same as undefined (if doesn't exist)
There should be trackedTime objects
object means any anytype object but trackedTime 
object should have
	trackingParentObject=null
	duration=null
trackedTime has 
	startTime 
	endTime 
	object
there are current and prev trackedTime which are initially null
function commponPart()
	let objs be: every intermediate object in anytype's hierarchy from currentObject up to one whose trackingParentObject=null
	if (prev !=null)
		prev.object.duration = currentTime-prev.startTime
		prev.endTime = currentTime
		if currentObject.trackingParentObject is null user choosing it from: 
			currentObject.parent chosen by default
			objs
			input field to find and select arbitrary object
		increase duration by prev.duration in objs
when button1 pressed
	commponPart()
	prev = current
	current=new trackedTime{startTime=currentTime,object=currentObject}
when button2 pressed
	commponPart()
	prev=null
	current=null

Real World Use-Cases

Time tracking (permanent) of my life

4

I hope that time tracking is on their radar. I really need this to be in effect

7

I would love to see this implemented. It does feel like a strong use case for a plugin, once the API is released. Not sure what the timeline is though.

8

This is a good feature / plugin to have.
Obsidian have a similar plugin: GitHub - plasmabit/timethings: Show clock, track time spent editing a note, and track the last time a note has been edited.

@rules Out of curiosity, what do you mean by “Permanent”? As in the accumulated time cannot be deleted? Like property of an object instead of a general timer over the whole app?

A potential issue that needs to be resolved: how should editing relations of an object in a set/collection be counted? As time spent in editing set/collection? Or time in editing an object?

9

Sorry guys I discovered Notion and moved to it. Simply filling up a db there integrated with Notion Calendar and allowing API access