Bug#580893: arbtt: Add option to exclude categories

[Felipe Sateler]

On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 12:40, Joachim Breitner <mail at joachim-breitner.de> wrote:
> Hi Felipe,
>
> Am Sonntag, den 09.05.2010, 12:26 -0400 schrieb Felipe Sateler:
>> Package: arbtt
>> Version: 0.5-1
>> Severity: wishlist
>>
>> It would be great if one could exclude whole categories from output.
>> For example, the Program category is sometimes useful, but most of the
>> time I just don't want to bother with it. So being able to say
>> --exclude-category Program would be awesome.
>
> so you want an analog to --exclude that works for categories instead of
> only for tags?

Exactly.

>
> Should be easy to implement. I’m inclined to just extend --exclude to
> support two kinds of invocations:
>  --exclude tag
> or
>  --exclude category:
>
> This is in line with the new --intervals feature (not released yet) that
> also takes either a tag or a category. Is that what you want?


Not really sure about usefulness, but my first attempt at seeing if
arbtt supported this was a glob pattern (Program:*). Perhaps someone
can come up with a more interesting use for such a feature. I'm happy
with being able to do -x category:

Unfortunately, I can't really answer if I want the --intervals
feature, because I don't know what it does :p.

>
>
> While I am at it: Do you find arbtt useful? What do you use it for? Do
> you have any creative categorizing you want to share? What other reports
> would you find useful?

I have just installed it. In fact:

% arbtt-stats  | grep last-day
              last-day |  3h59m42s |     100.00


I've been looking for some time tracking tool for a while but manual
task starting is not really working for me. So I remembered your post
from planet debian and installed arbtt. It looks promising. I
particularly like the fact that categorization happens at analyze
time. So basically I've been playing with categorize.cfg for now. The
concept of non-exclusive tags is cool too.
Unfortunately, I don't really have any creative categorizing yet. For
now I've only used arbtt for the task at hand I wanted to track. And
tagging facebook as procrastination :p.

>
> There is a mailinglist at http://lists.nomeata.de/mailman/listinfo/arbtt
> that you might be interested in joining.

Hmm, looks low traffic enough. I don't really subscribe to mailing
lists, though. I prefer NNTP gateways. Is there one for this list?


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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler