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What is an application that answers the question, “What is it you say you do around here?”

What is an application which isn’t much more than a big textarea for entering in what it is that you are currently working on.

Detail

When What starts up, it always loads $HOME/.doing into the textarea, and adds a time stamp. So an initial run might look like this,

  03:41PM

You then usually supply a brief description of what you are doing,

pre.
03:41PM Editing what wiki home page to have some basic description of what what does.

To save type Control-S which also closes the application. I run the application out of cron every 30 minutes. At the end of the day I email my “Daily Did” to my immediate co-workers and manger. This keeps everybody in the loop.

The menu also a has a Tally item. This adds up all the hours worked, for example;

    Monday, September 15     
     7:00AM coffed
     9:00AM coded flim flam sorting
     3:30PM scoot
     s: flim flam sorting

from this set of 5 lines, tally would show a single line “Monday, September 158flim flam sorting” This single line is tuned for insertion into an invoice. The “s:XXX” part is an optional summary for the day. I usually review each day and create a synopsis when I’m going to generate an invoice.