Timelite

Why is it 5 AM? Isn't there something simple I can use to track what I'm doing with all this time?

https://timelite.bythewood.me/

Why?

I want to casually track the time I spend on things without any overhead of signing into a service or even being online. Timelite is a progressive web app and works just fine without an internet connection, all data is stored locally and I don't track anything.

Timelite has been a pretty great companion for me with more aggressive team management software solutions that sometimes don't allow me to swap between projects quickly and track time easily. I tend to hop from project to project and task to task regularly. Larger solutions have a lot of overhead for basic time tracking. I tend to track my time here and then input that time at the end of the day or increments that make more sense.

For an overview of how to get this project running and why it's useful check out the DB Tech video on it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woG6qOmxlOA

Clone

For any possible way of running Timelite yourself you'll need a copy of the repo:

git clone https://github.com/overshard/timelite.git

After you get the repo it's up to you how you want to use it.

Development

You will need to have a version of node installed and yarn. If you already have node but don't know if you have yarn you probably just have npm and can install yarn with npm i -g yarn. After that you can run:

yarn install
yarn start

This will spin up Timelite to run on port 3000 which you can access via a browser at http://localhost:3000.

I won't really go into how to get node installed here, if you need help with that feel free to submit an issue but the best place to start would be just searching for how to install node on <your operating system here>. There are plenty of great guides out there as it is very popular.

Production

You can either push to Vercel with an update to the vercel.json file to change the alias or install Docker and docker-compose and use that on any server.

With docker appending -d to the end after up will run this container in detached mode. We have restart: unless-stopped configured so on system restarts or crashes the container will start back up automatically.

docker-compose up -d

Ports

To change which ports things run on you can update the package.json file's scripts. You will also need to update the docker-compose.yml file, if you use that, to properly publish the new port.

Troubleshooting

You may need to manually rebuild your docker container at times depending on changes that have been made that may not automatically trigger a rebuild. To do that you can run:

docker-compose up -d --build

The up implies that you want to start the server again, --build will rebuild the container and -d, as stated above, starts us in detached mode so you can set it and forget it.