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1. [chronometrist](#usage-chronometrist)
2. [chronometrist-report](#usage-chronometrist-report)
3. [chronometrist-statistics](#usage-chronometrist-statistics)
4. [chronometrist-details](#org533cd01)
4. [chronometrist-details](#org1c7a9d6)
5. [common commands](#usage-common-commands)
6. [Time goals/targets](#time-goals)
6. [How-to](#how-to)
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2. [How to load the program using literate-elisp](#how-to-literate-elisp)
3. [How to attach tags to time intervals](#how-to-tags)
4. [How to attach key-values to time intervals](#how-to-key-value-pairs)
5. [How to skip running hooks/attaching tags and key values](#org0e10cef)
5. [How to skip running hooks/attaching tags and key values](#org5198d0f)
6. [How to open certain files when you start a task](#how-to-open-files-on-task-start)
7. [How to warn yourself about uncommitted changes](#how-to-warn-uncommitted-changes)
8. [How to display the current time interval in the activity indicator](#how-to-activity-indicator)
9. [How to back up your Chronometrist data](#how-to-backup)
7. [Explanation](#orgd02a44a)
7. [Explanation](#org32bb6b5)
1. [Literate Program](#explanation-literate-program)
8. [User's reference](#org215fb52)
8. [User's reference](#orga4b321a)
9. [Contributions and contact](#contributions-contact)
10. [License](#license)
11. [Thanks](#thanks)
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3. Support for both mouse and keyboard
4. Human errors in tracking are easily fixed by editing a plain text file
5. Hooks to let you perform arbitrary actions when starting/stopping tasks
6. Fancy graphs with chronometrist-sparkline extension
6. Fancy graphs with the `chronometrist-spark` extension
<a id="limitations"></a>
# Limitations
1. No support (yet) for adding a task without clocking into it.
2. No support for concurrent tasks.
1. No support for concurrent tasks.
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- Chronometrist doesn't have a mode line indicator at the moment. (planned)
- Chronometrist doesn't have Org's sophisticated querying facilities. (an SQLite backend is planned)
- Org does so many things that keybindings seem to necessarily get longer. Chronometrist has far fewer commands than Org, so most of the keybindings are single keys, without modifiers.
- Chronometrist's UI makes keybindings discoverable - they are displayed in the buffers themselves.
- Chronometrist's UI is cleaner, since the storage is separate from the display. It doesn't show tasks as trees like Org, but it uses tags and key-values to achieve that. Additionally, navigating a flat list takes fewer user operations than navigating a tree.
- Chronometrist data is just s-expressions (plists), and may be easier to parse than a complex text format with numerous use-cases.
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Press `b` to look at past time ranges, and `f` for future ones.
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## chronometrist-details
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## How to attach tags to time intervals
1. Add `chronometrist-tags-add` to one or more of these hooks <sup><a id="fnr.1" class="footref" href="#fn.1">1</a></sup> -
1. Add `chronometrist-tags-add` to one or more of these hooks <sup><a id="fnr.1" class="footref" href="#fn.1" role="doc-backlink">1</a></sup> -
(add-to-list 'chronometrist-after-in-functions 'chronometrist-tags-add)
(add-to-list 'chronometrist-before-out-functions 'chronometrist-tags-add)
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## How to attach key-values to time intervals
1. Add `chronometrist-kv-add` to one or more of these hooks <sup><a id="fnr.2" class="footref" href="#fn.2">2</a></sup> -
1. Add `chronometrist-kv-add` to one or more of these hooks <sup><a id="fnr.2" class="footref" href="#fn.2" role="doc-backlink">2</a></sup> -
(add-to-list 'chronometrist-after-in-functions 'chronometrist-kv-add)
(add-to-list 'chronometrist-before-out-functions 'chronometrist-kv-add)
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To exit the prompt, press the key it indicates for quitting - you can then edit the resulting key-values by hand if required. Press `C-c C-c` to accept the key-values, or `C-c C-k` to cancel.
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## How to skip running hooks/attaching tags and key values
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Adapted from this [StackOverflow answer](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6916529/how-can-i-make-emacs-backup-every-time-i-save).
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# Explanation
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`chronometrist.org` is also included in MELPA installs, although not used directly by default, since doing so would interfere with automatic generation of autoloads.
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# User's reference
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Chronometrist is released under your choice of [Unlicense](https://unlicense.org/) or the [WTFPL](http://www.wtfpl.net/).
(See files <UNLICENSE> and <WTFPL>).
(See files [UNLICENSE](UNLICENSE) and [WTFPL](WTFPL)).
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wasamasa, bpalmer, aidalgol, pjb and the rest of #emacs for their tireless help and support
jwiegley for timeclock.el, which we used as a backend in earlier versions
jwiegley for `timeclock.el`, which we used as a backend in earlier versions
blandest for helping me with the name

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3. Support for both mouse and keyboard
4. Human errors in tracking are easily fixed by editing a plain text file
5. Hooks to let you perform arbitrary actions when starting/stopping tasks
6. Fancy graphs with chronometrist-sparkline extension
6. Fancy graphs with the =chronometrist-spark= extension
* Limitations
:PROPERTIES:
:CUSTOM_ID: limitations
:END:
1. No support (yet) for adding a task without clocking into it.
2. No support for concurrent tasks.
1. No support for concurrent tasks.
* Comparisons
:PROPERTIES:
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+ Chronometrist doesn't have a mode line indicator at the moment. (planned)
+ Chronometrist doesn't have Org's sophisticated querying facilities. (an SQLite backend is planned)
+ Org does so many things that keybindings seem to necessarily get longer. Chronometrist has far fewer commands than Org, so most of the keybindings are single keys, without modifiers.
+ Chronometrist's UI makes keybindings discoverable - they are displayed in the buffers themselves.
+ Chronometrist's UI is cleaner, since the storage is separate from the display. It doesn't show tasks as trees like Org, but it uses tags and key-values to achieve that. Additionally, navigating a flat list takes fewer user operations than navigating a tree.
+ Chronometrist data is just s-expressions (plists), and may be easier to parse than a complex text format with numerous use-cases.
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Chronometrist is released under your choice of [[https://unlicense.org/][Unlicense]] or the [[http://www.wtfpl.net/][WTFPL]].
(See files [[file:UNLICENSE]] and [[file:WTFPL]]).
(See files [[file:UNLICENSE][UNLICENSE]] and [[file:WTFPL][WTFPL]]).
* Thanks
:PROPERTIES:
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wasamasa, bpalmer, aidalgol, pjb and the rest of #emacs for their tireless help and support
jwiegley for timeclock.el, which we used as a backend in earlier versions
jwiegley for =timeclock.el=, which we used as a backend in earlier versions
blandest for helping me with the name
fiete and wu-lee for testing and bug reports
# Local Variables:
# eval: (progn (require 'ox-md) (add-hook 'after-save-hook (lambda () (org-export-to-file 'md "manual.md")) nil t))
# End: