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I Track My Time The Way I Track My Budget
How I use ledger-cli to keep track of my time and finances in the same place
Have you ever been in a situation where you were trying very hard to solve a problem and suddenly realized “somebody must have already solved this problem”? This is what happened to me recently. I’m a firm believer in time tracking for my personal and professional tasks. Since I’m also a fan of free software, I use Org (in Emacs) to track the time I spend on different tasks. My problem was generating time reports. The solution was already within the software I use to track my personal finances.
In this article, I’ll explain my journey in the hope of both inspiring you to track your time in ledger-cli and to look for existing solutions you can stitch together to achieve a bigger goal more efficiently.
My Time-Tracking Setup
I’m a big fan of time tracking. It helps keep me focused on my task and lets me generate insights into how I generally spend my time. Keeping track of the time spent on different tasks would be such a burden if I had to use a separate app from the one I use to manage my…
