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Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository

Befehle und Aliase

• timew

Projektgeschichte

Timewarrior began as a companion to Taskwarrior. The Taskwarrior project announced Timewarrior 0.9.5 alpha in June 2016, describing it as a tool intended to replace Taskwarrior's older `timesheet` command and add more reporting capability.

The 1.0.0 release followed in August 2016. The release announcement described Timewarrior as tracking time from the command line, generating reports, storing data locally in clear text, and integrating with Taskwarrior.

The official Timewarrior site now presents it as free and open-source software that tracks time from the command line. Its release archive shows continued maintenance through the 1.x series, including 1.5.0 in 2023, 1.7.x in 2023-2024, and 1.9.1 in 2025.

Adoptionsgeschichte

Timewarrior's adoption is strongly tied to command-line productivity users who already use Taskwarrior or similar plain-text workflows. Its tutorials emphasize no initial setup beyond first-run data/config creation and simple commands for starting, stopping, tagging, and summarizing intervals.

The input package-manager metadata lists broad distribution across apk, Homebrew, Debian, Fedora, MacPorts, Nix, Arch, Ubuntu, and openSUSE, indicating unusually wide packaging for a terminal productivity tool.

Wie es verwendet wird

Typical usage starts with `timew start`, `timew stop`, and `timew summary`, often with tags to classify tracked work. The docs also cover backfilled intervals with `timew track` and reporting features such as summaries and charts.

Timewarrior stores intervals and models open and closed time ranges; the official interval-behavior docs explain real and synthetic intervals, exclusions, and how an open interval is handled across excluded time.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Timewarrior is significant in the package-nerd niche because it is a mature CLI productivity tool with local text-like data, scriptable commands, and a natural link to Taskwarrior hooks and workflows.

Its appeal is strongest for users who want time tracking to live in the terminal and package manager rather than in a hosted SaaS application.

Zeitleiste

• 2016-06: Timewarrior 0.9.5 alpha announced by Taskwarrior.
• 2016-08: Timewarrior 1.0.0 released.
• 2023-04: Timewarrior 1.5.0 released.
• 2025-08: Timewarrior 1.9.1 listed as the current release on the official site.

Related projects

• Taskwarrior is Timewarrior's closest related project; official announcements describe Timewarrior as its companion and replacement for Taskwarrior's older timesheet command.
• The broader family includes Gothenburg Bit Factory command-line productivity projects.

Quellen

• https://taskwarrior.org/news/news.20160620/ - official Taskwarrior news announcing Timewarrior 0.9.5 alpha and its companion role.
• https://taskwarrior.org/news/news.20160821/ - official Taskwarrior news announcing Timewarrior 1.0.0.
• https://timewarrior.net/ - official homepage describes current purpose and release.
• https://timewarrior.net/docs/interval_behavior/ - official docs describe interval storage and behavior.
• https://timewarrior.net/releases/ - official release archive lists 1.0.0 through 1.9.1 release dates.
• https://timewarrior.net/tutorial/first_light/ - official tutorial documents first-run setup.
• input.source_facts.package-manager - package-manager availability lists apk, Homebrew, Debian, Fedora, MacPorts, Nix, Arch, Ubuntu, and openSUSE.