TrenchTracker

A self-contained time tracking app for windows that prioritizes local storage, json exports for backup, and for an individual user in mind.

High Level Goals

• Track task names
  • be able to aggregate entries with the same name
• Project field for each time entry
• tags
• custom fields for each entry
  • Charge code
• Billable bool
• Billable rate report on projects/custom fields/tasks
• global billable rate
• project/task/custom field level billable rate over-ride
• Time rounding
  • 0.1h
  • 1 min
  • only use whole minutes (if started at 13:15:24, start time is updated to 13:15:00)
  • round up, round down, or to the nearest (0.1, minute, etc.)
• Visual Reports
  • Dynamic time/date range (standard week, month, past 12 months, calendar year)
  • filter by any field (task name, project, custom field, tags)
  • table, histogram, pie chart visualizations
• JSON Data Export/Backup

Stretch Goals

• Light Mode (Dark mode should be default)
• Timer Split
  • Allow to split x mins/hours ago into new task
  • round according to the appropriate setting policy
• Keyboad shortcuts

User Guide

Build Instructions

Plan on using a docker dev environment to make builds easy/stable

Build Environment

• .NET 9.0
• C#
• MAUI

Note: May opt to use python for prototype/speed of development.

Dependencies