Time Tracking Terminal Tools

Time tracking records where the hours went: how long a task took, how much of a week a project consumed, and what belongs on a timesheet or an invoice.

 

Terminal trackers start and stop with a single command, keep their history in a plain text file or a small local database, and report totals by day, project or tag. Several work in fixed intervals with short breaks between them, following the Pomodoro Technique.

 

Freelancers use them for billing, and developers use them to see how a day was spent without leaving the shell. The lists of what to do next are under todo managers and task managers.

 

Below is a list of terminal tools that track time.