normnxt / global_keybind_timer

Timer for measuring time (hours and minutes) spent on a task without tabbing through any windows.

global_keybind_timer

Timer for logging time spent on task(s) without having to tab through windows to click buttons. Plays a beep/alarm after the timer has been inactive for 5 minutes, for productivity reasons, to assist in staying active and keeping track of time while completing tasks or working from home.

1. Setting custom keybindings, turning the beep timer on/off, and adjusting the time interval is done in settings.json file.

2. Logs time and all user actions to .txt file for record keeping

3. Script can be executed from provided run.bat file, it checks for a venv and sets one up along with dependencies if it does not already exist.

Timer Features

• Presents time in hours and minutes (rounds to nearest minute), but keeps time in seconds
• Starts recording time on keypress (F8)
• Stops recording time on second keypress (F8) and adds it to total
• Able to edit total time (shift+F7)
• Able to undo last addition to time (shift+F8)
• Able to start a new session and clear total time (shift+F9)

Other info

• Need to pip install keyboard and pip install playsound==1.2.2 dependencies if not using the .bat file.
• If not using .bat, run timer.py like any other script, with a basic command in command prompt window (edit path as necessary):

cd path\to\global_keybind_timer\src

python timer.py

Install dependencies from requirements.txt file:

pip install -r requirements.txt

global_keybind_timer's Issues

Undoing the last addition to the timer causes a formatting issue with logs

Removing time using shift+F7 will cause the logs to lose their line breaks.

Starting a new session gets printed twice and removing the last addition to the timer causes a fatal error even with time in the stack

These bugs are currently unreproduced. Occasionally while using the timer, "--- Started a new timer session ---" will be printed twice on use of shift+F9. Using shift+F7 to undo the last addition of time to the stack will cause an index error even with time recorded in the stack.

index errors when undoing the last addition to the timer

Using shift+F7 when the time stack is not full or a new time was manually entered can cause a fatal system error and the timer needs to be restarted.