Here’s what I do, maybe there’s something useful here.
I track my time in a section in my daily note, in this format. I use Templater to insert the timestamps for me:
## 🕔 Time tracking
- 07:30-10:56 Some stuff
- 10:56-11:23 Another task, did some things
- 12:34-13:30 Third project
Then I have a master time tracking note which sums them all up for me using Dataview, in hours-per-week/day:
const tracked = {}
dv.pages('"Daily/Notes"').file.lists
.where(x => x.section.subpath === "🕔 Time tracking").array()
.forEach(x => {
// Find the start/end times for each bullet point
const times = x.text.match(/^(\d{2}:\d{2})-(\d{2}:\d{2})/)
if (times) {
const start = moment(times[1], 'HH:mm')
const end = moment(times[2], 'HH:mm')
const minutes = moment.duration(end.diff(start)).asMinutes()
const date = x.path.match(/(\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2})/)[1]
const week = moment(date).format('YYYY, [Week] WW')
if (!tracked[week]) tracked[week] = {}
if (tracked[week][date]) {
tracked[week][date].minutes += minutes
} else {
tracked[week][date] = {
path: x.path,
minutes: minutes
}
}
}
})
const hours = minutes => (minutes / 60).toFixed(1)
const table = []
Object.keys(tracked).sort((a, b) => b.localeCompare(a))
.forEach(weekDate => {
// Push weekly value
const week = tracked[weekDate]
const weekTime = Object.values(week).reduce((prev, curr) => prev + curr.minutes, 0)
table.push([weekDate, '**' + hours(weekTime) + '**'])
// Push daily values
Object.keys(week).sort((a, b) => b.localeCompare(a))
.forEach(date => {
const link = `– [[${week[date].path}#🕔 Time tracking|${moment(date).format('dddd D MMMM')}]]`
table.push([link, '– ' + hours(week[date].minutes)])
})
})
dv.table(['Date', 'Hours'], table)
The summary table looks like this, with links back to each day:
