A time tracking daemon to measure the time you spend working on different projects.

• No user interaction to start / stop working on a project: I can't format my mind to add toil actions when I have something to do, so no "start" and "stop" buttons;
• Ability to work on multiple projects in parallel: I contribute to a lot of Free Software as a part of my day-to-day work, I want to track the time I spend on each of them;
• Ability to nest projects one inside another: one organization I am working for may own multiple projects, I want to track both the time spent working for this organization and on each project.

The daemon wtrd(1) regularly walk through the user processes and check their working directory. These working directories are compared to projects roots: if any process' working directory is in a project root, this project is considered active.

Assuming the following directory tree for the user ~coyote who wants to track the time spent on 3 projects, A, B and C, while also tracking the time spent for their employer ACME who owns the A and B projects:

~coyote
|-> ACME
|   |-> A
|   `-> B
`-> C

This user can create / edit their wtrd(1) configuration file with:

coyote@home ~ $ wtr edit

This will bring their editor where they can describe their hierarchy using ini-style syntax where each project's "friendly name" is a section containing a single root key with the path to the directory to consider the root of the project:

[A]
root=~/ACME/A

[B]
root=~/ACME/B

[C]
root=~/C

[ACME]
root=~/ACME

They then start the wtrd(1) daemon, and can use wtr(1) to query information on what is going on and generate reports.

coyote@home ~ $ wtr --help