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Introduction

Minutes

Sync worklogs between multiple time trackers, invoicing, and bookkeeping software.
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minutes

Charging by the hour is one of the most common ways to invoice a client. Some companies or clients specify the time tracking tool to use, though it usually won't fit your own workflows. This even gets more complicated and cumbersome, when the invoices should contain the tasks you spent time on.

Minutes is a CLI tool, primarily made for entrepreneurs and finance people, to help their daily work by synchronizing worklogs from a source to a target software. The source can be your own time tracking tool you use, let's say Tempo, while the target is a bookkeeping software, like Zoho Books.

Key features

Some features may vary depending on the source and target. For more information, please refer to their documentation.

  • Customize the date time format used for fetching entries
  • Set a specific start and end date to query entries
  • Force every second spent to be billable1
  • Treat tags attached to an entry as tasks you spent time on2
  • Round billable and unbillable seconds to the closest minute per entry3
  • Customizable table output before uploading

For usage examples and configuration options, please check the Getting Started and Configuration documentation.

Supported platforms

The following platforms and tools are supported. If you miss your favorite tool, please send a pull request with the implementation, or file a new feature request.

Tool Use as source Use as target
Clockify yes upon request
Everhour upon request upon request
FreshBooks upon request planned
Harvest yes upon request
QuickBooks upon request upon request
Tempo yes yes
Time Doctor upon request upon request
TimeCamp upon request upon request
Timewarrior yes upon request
Toggl Track yes upon request
Zoho Books upon request planned

Versioning

Minutes adheres to Semantic Versioning.

Disclaimer

Warning

Minutes comes with absolutely no warranty. When money comes into the picture, everyone should be more careful what they are doing. Before and after synchronizing any logs to the target, make sure the entries displayed on the screen matching the source entries.


  1. It can be useful if the source does not support billable time, while the target does. 

  2. When you need to split time across entries or your source tool does not support tasks, it comes handy to tag entries. 

  3. Rounding rules are the following: if you spent >=30 seconds on a task, it will be treated as 1 minute, otherwise 0 (zero). 

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