Allow stop without previous start command

[rkj]

I frequently forget to run start command, and then need to look up when was end time of my previous entry and use track with full times to create it. It would be nice if I could just use it like:

klog start # only used once in the morning
klog stop -s 'Fixed bug X'
klog stop -s 'Reviewed doc Y' # takes start time from the end of previous activity

[rkj]

I've found simple bash workaround:

klog_stop() {
  klog start --time $(klog json | jq '.records[-1].entries[-1].end' -r)
  klog stop -s "'$*'"
}

[jotaen]

Retroactively starting a time range is tricky, because it also might be undesired, or cover up a mistake. It’s probably better to make the behaviour explicit, as with your workaround for example.

As alternative idea to your solution, I could also imagine a custom command like klog_checkin or klog_commit, which does klog stop and klog start under the hood. So you’d only do klog start at the very beginning, and then you’d use klog_commit throughout the day, to continuously flush the individual activities.

klog_commit() {
  klog stop -s "'$*'"
  klog start
}