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Nice; I'd like something like that, but with the addition of allowing me to track the estimated vs. the real time of a job. I.e., when I start a task, I estimate the time needed, when I finish it, it tells me the real time it took. Ideally, I could take breaks in between, but even just having a linear task would be great. E.g.:

  $ doing estimate 3h fixing bug 1234
  [ time passes/working ... ]
  $ doing done ["fixing bug 1234"]
  done fixing bug 1234: task took 1d5h50m longer than estimate
  $ cat ~/.plan
  2014-03-12 12:00:00 begin "fixing bug 1234" (3h)
  2014-03-13 17:50:00 done "fixing bug 1234" (1d8h50m) [+1d3h50m]
Does something like that already exist?


Seems I have found it, at least for OSX:

https://github.com/pkamenarsky/atea

Not perfect, but as close as possible


Turns out, atea does all I need and integrates nicely into the OSX UI with an icon in the menu bar. It does:

  - project-based task management
  - proiority ordering of tasks
  - Dropbox-based syncing of one or more task files
  - time tracking
  - comparison of real times to estimates
So, in the end, maybe it is actually the perfect solution, and it is free, too.




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