sigye (시계)

A simple, command-line time tracking program.

Overview

sigye (시계 Korean for clock) is a CLI program to help you track your time. With sigye, there are basic operations:

• start (start tracking time towards a project)
• stop (stop tracking time)
• status (get the current status)
• edit (edit a time entry record using the current default EDITOR value or nano if you don't have EDITOR set in your shell)
• list (list entries)
  • can filter entries by time range ("today", "week", "month") or fixed start and end dates.
  • can filter entries by project name(s) or a project starts with.
  • can filter entries by tags name(s).

The default storage of time entries is a YAML file (near future will be sqlite support). Using YAML makes manual editing of the entire file possible using any editor.

Installation

Via uv

uv tool install sigye

Via pipx

pipx install sigye

Usage

Default Storage of Entries

By default, entries are stored in a TOML file at: $HOME/.sigye/time_entries.toml

To override this value, you can add --filename <date_filename> on every command to override adhoc.

To override this value for an environment, you can set the environment variable SIGYE_DATA_FILENAME to whatever value you'd like and that will become the default.

Or better yet, set the data_filename in the config.yaml file.

Important

Make sure the directory exists before overriding.

Storage options

The following formats are available for storage:

• Text File:
  • TOML (default)
  • YAML
  • JSON
• SqliteDB:
  • has the .db filename extension

Warning

The SqliteDB storage method is experimental and subject to change (re: table schema). Performance of the file-based storage is surprisingly good for most uses. Tests up to 6,000 entries still seem performant enough for most uses. But for those with slower computers and large numbers of entries, the sqlite storage solution might be better.

Start tracking

sigye start <project-name> "<optional comment>" --tag "optional_tag" --start_time "HH:MM"

The start command begins tracking time for a project. You can:

• Add an optional comment in quotes to describe what you're working on
• Add one or more tags using the --tag option
• Specify a custom start time using --start_time (or -s) in 24-hour format (HH:MM or HH:MM:SS) or AM/PM format
• Only one time entry can be tracked at a time
• Starting a new entry automatically stops the currently running one

Stop tracking

sigye stop ["optional comment"] --stop_time "HH:MM"

The stop command ends time tracking for the current entry. You can:

• Add an optional comment in quotes to describe what was completed
• Specify a custom stop time using --stop_time (or -s) in 24-hour format (HH:MM or HH:MM:SS) or AM/PM format
• Use stop without a comment to simply end tracking
• If no stop time is specified, the current time is used

Check status

sigye status

List Entries

List All Entries

sigye list

List Filtered Entries

All entries from a named time frame (options: today, yesterday, week and month):

sigye list TIMEFRAME

All entries for a certain project (or list of projects)

sigye list --project abc-1234 --project abc-1233

Entries that "start with" a project name (note: you can use + or . or *):

sigye list --project abc+

All entries with any tag matching a tag or multiple tags:

sigye list --tag mytag

List Entries in a Different format

The output format can be set/overridden with the --output_format or -o option.

Valid options are:

• rich -- colorized text with ascii/unicode characters for nicer display. This is the default output if the sigye command is not being redirected somewhere besides stdout.
• text -- an extremely plain output mostly used for testing.
• json -- output in JSON format. This is the default if no option is provided and stdout is redirected.
• yaml -- output in YAML format, suitable for exporting entries to a new file.
• csv -- output in CSV format, suitable for exporting to a CSV file and then importing into a spreadsheet.
• markdown -- output in markdown (md) format. You can then redirect to a tool like glow or to a file or tool that transforms markdown to html and/or pdf.

Example:

sigye -o yaml list --project abc.

The above would list all entries that have a project that starts with "abc" in yaml format.

Edit Entries

To edit an entry, use the full or partial ID (just has to be enough digits for it to be unique among your time entry file or data). By default, sigye shows the first 4 digits from an entry ID.

sigye edit ID

Export Entries

If you need to export all entries to another format or a different file, this allows you to do that:

sigye export my_exported.db

The above example would export the currently configured time entry storage to a file called my_exported.db (which implies SQLite). The system will automatically adjust based on the filename extension (e.g. yaml, toml, json, etc). Only the currently supported storage engine formats will work.

Configuration

sigye can be configured using a YAML configuration file located at ~/.sigye/config.yaml. Here's an example configuration file with available options:

# Override the default locale (en_US)
# locale: ko_KR
# data_filename: /full/path/to/a/file.yaml
# Auto-tagging rules
# Each rule consists of:
#   - pattern: regular expression pattern to match against project name
#   - match_type: how to match the pattern (regex)
#   - tags: list of tags to apply when pattern matches
auto_tag_rules:
  - pattern: "^abc"  # Matches projects starting with "abc"
    match_type: "regex"
    tags: ["learning"]
  
  - pattern: "^PROJ-\\d+"  # Matches PROJ- followed by numbers
    match_type: "regex"
    tags: ["work", "billable"]
  
  - pattern: ".*-urgent$"  # Projects ending with "-urgent"
    match_type: "regex"
    tags: ["urgent", "high-priority"]
  
  - pattern: "(feature|bugfix)/"  # Projects containing feature/ or bugfix/
    match_type: "regex"
    tags: ["development"]

The auto-tagging rules automatically apply tags to your time entries based on the project name. This helps maintain consistent tagging across similar projects without having to manually specify tags each time.

Localization Support (experimental Korean output)

To get output in Korean: export SIGYE_LOCALE=ko_KR

The sigye list and sigye status commands will now output some information in Korean.

Note

This work is ongoing and subject to change. Currently localization doesn't work correctly with markdown, csv or other optional output methods.

Development

Install requirements

This project uses uv for dependency management.

Running tests

uv run pytest

Future Changes

• Configuration file support
  • YAML (mostly complete now)
  • TOML
• Language Localization (in-progress)
• SQLite storage
• TOML storage