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3.0.13 (2020-06-18)

• Highlights: Much improved searching and reporting.

  • A brief overview of what’s documented in greater detail below:

    • Add grouping (by Activity, Category, Tags, and/or start date).

      • For instance, group by Activity, Category, and Day to see how much time was spent on each Activity@Category each day.

    • Add multi-column sorting.

      • For instance, group by Activity, Category, and Day, and sort by day and usage to see results ordered by which tasks had the most time spent on them recently.

    • Add search on Fact description.

      • For instance, find all Facts whose description contains one or more search terms.

    • Add Tag frequency distributions.

      • For instance, to see the number of times each Tag was used in each result group.

    • Add JSON output format.

      • For instance, to prepare data to transmit elsewhere, such as <third-party timesheet server>.

    • Support human-friendly relative dates (like ‘1 day ago’).

      • E.g., dob find --since yesterday.

    • Wire since/until options to Activity, Category, and Tag searches (via list and usage commands).

      • E.g., dob list activities --since 'last week'.

    • New ‘Journal’ search results format, exemplified by the new dob report command.

      • Includes sparklines and Tag frequencies, e.g.:

        $ dob report
        Fri Jun 12  8.3 hours  ████▌    Development@Tally Bark  #dob(5)
                    2.5 hours  █▍       Cooking & Eating@Personal  #salad
        

• Details: Add more powerful search and report options.

  • Rename a few existing options and a handful of single-character options, and add a number of new options for the search commands (for the existing search, list, usage, and export commands, and for the new report command).

  • Bring parity to the list, usage, search and export commands, such that they all support as many of the same options as reasonable.

  • Add new report grouping options:

    • New -A/--group-activity, to group results by Activity.
    • New -C/--group-category, to group results by Category.
    • New -T/--group-tags, to group results by Tag names.
    • New -Y/--group-days, to group by Fact start date (YYYYMMDD).

  • Allow multiple columns to be specified with -S/--sort/--order.

  • Remove -D/--desc and -A/--asc options and rely instead on -D/--direction/--dir option, which can now be specified multiple times, to support specifying a separate sort order for each of the now-multiple-allowed -S/--sort/--order options.

  • Rename report option -g/--category to -c/--category (which restricts results to matching Category), so that the option name pneumonic is obvious.

  • Add new -t/--tag search match option, to complement existing -a/--activity and -c/--category search match options.

  • Add search term support, for matching against Fact description.

    • E.g., dob find foo will find all Facts with ‘foo’ in their description.

  • Add single-character options for --since and --until options: -s and -u.

  • Disable deprecated report options, --hidden and --deleted.

  • Rename option -u/--usage to -U/--show-usage.

  • Rename option -s/--span/--no-span to -N/--hide-duration.

  • New option, -P/--hide-description, to omit the Fact description.

  • New option, -l/--column, allows user to specify exactly what details to include in the report (otherwise a reasonable set of default columns is reported).

    • E.g., the command,

      dob list facts --group-tags -l 'tag' -l 'group_count'

      will show two columns, ‘Tag’ and ‘Uses’, that indicate each Tag name used on the grouped Facts, as well as how many Facts it’s used on, and excludes all other columns.

  • Add a new sparkline output value, to visually represent the ‘duration’.

    • And add options to control the new sparkline output value: --spark-width, --spark-total, and --spark-secs.

  • Rename option -r/--rule to -R/--factoid-rule, for readability.

  • Replace poorly implemented -t/--truncate option with -W/--width option, to restrict report table or Factoid line to specific width.

    • Also change Factoid report to default to compact view (no blank lines) when width is used.
      • E.g., dob find --since 'last week' --factoid --width 110.

  • Rename poorly-named -w/--doc output format option to --factoid (or use -f factoid).

  • Add JSON output format option (specify with -f json, --json, or -J).

  • Split table and markup formats from --format to a new option, --table-type/--type.

    • Now the -f/--format option only includes the higher-level formats, which are also each mapped to their own option names, e.g., --journal is equivalent to --format journal.

      This list of higher-level formats is:

      --journal, --factoid, --ical, --csv, --json, --tsv, --xml, and --table.

    • The new --table-type/--type option is used to specify a table or markup output format, and includes: html, mediawiki, rst, etc.

      • E.g., dob find --since 'last week' --table --type rst.

  • Modify --table option to use the texttable package and disable tabulate and humanfriendly usage, because neither of those packages wraps cell values, so their tables are not guaranteed to be readable in one’s terminal.

    • This is mapped to the default --table-type normal option.

  • Add new --broad-match/--broad option, for applying report command search terms to matching meta fields, too.

    • E.g., dob find --broad foo will find all Facts with ‘foo’ in their description, in their Activity name, in their Category name, or in one of their Tag names, including parts of any name. For instance, it would match an Activity named ‘afoobar’.

      Whereas, e.g., dob find -a foo would only find Facts with an Activity named exactly ‘foo’.

  • Allow multiple Activity, Category, and/or Tag filters.

    • Rather than only accepting one attribute name to filter search results, allow many (and OR the filters).
    • E.g., dob find -a foo -a bar will find all Facts with an Activity named with ‘foo’ or ‘bar’.

  • Add new config value, term.row_limit, to replace hardcoded terminal output row limit, but ignore if output is being redirected.

    • This avoids overwhelming the terminal with too much output, unless the user explicitly asks for it.

  • Align columns better in the table output format.

    • E.g., align ‘duration’ column on decimal places, and right-align other number columns.

  • New options to show or hide cumulative result totals in aggregate search.

• Feature: New dob report command shows time spent recently on each Activity@Category, grouped by start date, and formatted using ‘Journal’.

  • The report command is essentially an alias for the otherwise lengthy find command:

    dob find \
      --since 'last week' \
      --group-days \
      --group-activity \
      --group-category \
      --sort day \
      --dir asc \
      --sort time \
      --dir desc \
      --journal
    

• Extend all commands that output a table to support the other formats, too.

  • In addition to table format, now also support CSV, TSV, XML, etc.
  • This affects the list and usage commands, as well as the config show, styles show, rules show, and ignore show commands.
  • E.g., dob config dump --json.

• Improve: Tweak other option names.

  • Rename -C/--color/--no-color to -X/--color/--no-color, and rename -c/--config to -C/--config, so that now all single- character global options, save for -v/--version, are capitalized.
  • Rename import command option -X/--leave-backup to -b/--leave-backup.

• Bugfix: Activity without Category crashes list activities.

  • That is, for any Activity that has NULL for the Category.

• Bugfix: dob usage tags crashes.

• Bugfix: dob list sort option broken.

• Alias: New dob find command is alias to dob search command.

• Improve: Add abbreviated list and usage command type names.

  • E.g., dob list act is an alias for dob list activities.

• Add --show-duration option to list command.

  • Because of the complementary nature of the list and usage commands, add --show-duration to complement --hide-duration, to be used with list commands to achieve usage-like output.

• Improve: Make dob export only generate Factoid report.

  • Because that’s the only format than can be imported.
  • Also, require than an output file be specified for the export command, to better differentiate it from the search command (because search could otherwise be used instead of export).

• Improve: In reports, distinguish between Category with no name, and NULL.

  • Specifically, if an Activity has no Category assigned, show ‘<NULL>’ rather than the empty string, which itself is a valid Activity name.

• Improve: Tweak details command output so colons align.

• Simplify: Hide migrate command (which is currently not needed).

• Bugfix: Catch overflow error when day delta too large. [dob-viewer]

  • For instance, if the user enters a jump command but with a date, e.g.,``20200615J``, when they meant to instead use the f command, not the J command, i.e., 20200615f, catch and recover gracefully from the timedelta overflow error.

• Improve: Make mash-quit on unsaved changes prompt opt-in. [dob-viewer]

  • As a convenience to developers, mashing Ctrl-q would skip the save confirmation on exit; this feature is now opt in via the new config setting, dev.allow_mash_quit.

• Improve: Show hidden config options when requested directly. [dob-bright]

  • E.g., dob config dump foo bar would previously not show the config setting if foo.bar was marked hidden.

• Improve: Add max-width option to Fact.friendly_str. [nark]

  • It previously applied to just the description, but now can be applied to the complete friendly string.
  • Also make ANSI-aware, so that strings with colors or ornamentation are not truncated prematurely.

• Improve: Use ‘at …’ syntax for Factoid with no end, not ‘ to <now>’. [nark]

  • So that the active Fact writ as a Factoid is parsable on import.

• Restrict: Raise error on search if SQLite is not the engine. [nark]

  • This conflicts with the goal (set by hamster-lib, and loftily sought by nark) to support any DBMS, but the necessary SQL aggregate functions are DBMS-specific, and SQLite is all that’s been plumbed in this release (to support the enhanced search and report features).

• Bugfix: Aggregate results for Facts with two or more Tags is incorrect. [nark]

  • Usage and duration were being over-counted.

• Bugfix: Both antecedent and subsequent mishandle momentaneous Facts. [nark]

3.0.12 (2020-04-28)

• Bugfix: Windows: dob demo broken. [dob]
• Bugfix: Windows: Run notepad.exe if EDITOR not set. [dob-viewer]
  • Normally if EDITOR is not set, the system’s sensible-editor command will run Nano or Vi, neither of which is available on Windows. Consequently, on Windows, when EDITOR is not set, dob displays a warning, awaits acknowledgment, and then runs the Carousel again.
• Bugfix: Windows: Temporary file path broken because colon. [dob-viewer]
• Bugfix: Windows: dob shows backup file symlink error. [dob]

3.0.11 (2020-04-26)

• Bugfix: Windows support, aka upgrade to sqlalchemy 1.3. [nark]
• Bugfix: Ensure warnings not cleared before awaiting acknowledgment. [dob-viewer]
• Bugfix: Config settings path shows incorrectly when displaying errors. [dob-bright]

3.0.10 (2020-04-25)

• Bugfix: dob edit fails when no config, rather than printing message. [dob-bright]

  • Also affects other commands that require the config.

  • E.g., this happens if the user has not called dob init.

    In other words, this affects new users.

• Bugfix: dob edit does nothing after dob init on empty database. [dob]

  • User should not be forced to dob-add a Fact before running the interactive Carousel. Instead, we can start with a basic gap Fact.

• Bugfix: Config created by dob init crashes subsequent dob commands. [nark]

  • The internal log level values were being writ to the config file, rather than the friendly level names.

• Bugfix: Config file errors crash dob. [dob-bright]

  • But rather than just catch one error, print it, and exit, collect all errors, print them all, and then just keep chugging, choosing to use default values rather then exiting.
  • User will have option to bail before running Carousel, which now requires the user’s acknowledgement of the errors.

• Bugfix: dob edit shows most recently edited Fact. [dob]

  • It should show the most recent Fact. So sort by start.

• Bugfix: Print error rather than crash on $EDITOR fail. [dob-viewer]

  • Use case: User sets their EDITOR environment variable to a bad path, or adds arguments (which is not supported – but one could use an intermediate shell script wrapper to add args).

• Bugfix: Post-processors not called after dob-add. [dob]

  • Use case: On Carousel save, the export-commit plugin post processor is triggered. The same should happen after editing/adding Facts through the dob add family of commands, e.g., dob from xx to xx: A test!

• Bugfix: Part-specific styles not appearing until after focus. [dob-viewer]

  • Use case: Run dob edit and note the start and end time widget styles. Now shift focus to one of the widgets, and then away.
    • Depending on how the style is configured, the look of the widget after shifting focus away from it does not look like how it originally looked.

• Regression: Cannot enter colon (for clock time) in time widgets. [dob-viewer]

  • Solution: Only enable colon commands when content has focus.

• Feature: Set app background color via label = <> in styles.conf. [dob-viewer]

  • PTK already assigns ‘class:label’ to every widget. This updates the style-clobbering calls to maintain the label. Thus, user could add, say, label = 'bg:#00AA66' to their styles.conf, to give the app a uniform background color.

• Improve: Require confirmation after printing errors on Carousel startup. [dob-viewer]

  • Instead of pausing after printing error messages, require user to confirm. Otherwise, user may not have time to read the errors. Also, after quitting Carousel, errors are still off-screen (up-screen).

• Improve: Make easier to base styles off ‘night’ and ‘light’ base styles. [dob-viewer]

  • Rather than assign the base color to all classes, which makes it difficult to override them in styles.conf (because user is then forced to override the highest-order class for every widget), leave all the class styles empty except for the lowest ordered class, which is common to all widgets, class:label.

• Improve: Use no precision in ‘Gap Fact of’ text until duration > 60 seconds. [dob-viewer]

  • Otherwise the footer status message updates too frequently, is too distracting.

• Improve: Warn when syntax errors found in style config. [dob-viewer]

3.0.9 (2020-04-20)

• Feature: New dob config edit command, to get straight to the point. [dob]

• Feature: New dob styles commands. [dob]

  • dob styles --help

    dob styles create

    dob styles conf

    dob styles edit

    dob styles list

    dob styles show

• Feature: New dob rules commands. [dob]

  • dob rules --help

    dob rules create

    dob rules conf

    dob rules edit

    dob rules list

    dob rules show

• Feature: New dob ignore commands. [dob]

  • dob ignore --help

    dob ignore create

    dob ignore edit

    dob ignore list

    dob ignore show

• UX: Prefer config-show over config-dump. [dob]

• Docs: Add section on config file populate command. [dob]

• Improve: Ensure plugins loaded on config-create, too. [dob]

• Bugfix: Import FactsDiff display broken. [dob-viewer]

• Bugfix: ‘value-tags’ class missing from hash-and-label tag parts’ styles. [dob-viewer]

• Feature: New dob styles commands. [dob-viewer]

• Feature: New dob rules commands. [dob-viewer]

• Feature: New dob ignore commands. [dob-viewer]

• Feature: Make tags_tuples parts styleable (for git edit). [dob-viewer]

• Feature: Make factoid parts styleable (for git show). [dob-viewer]

• Tweak: Update ‘night’ style settings. [dob-viewer]

• Enhance: Apply ‘value-tags’ class to tags diff parts. [dob-viewer]

• API: Rename functions; move functions between libraries. [dob-viewer]

• API: Update renamed config setting: stylit_fpath → rules_fpath. [dob-viewer]

• Improve: Option to exclude section column from config table. [dob-bright]

• Improve: Do not assume ASCII table width. [dob-bright]

• UX: Change difficult to read ‘red’ warning text to ‘yellow’. [dob-bright]

  (Though really should be made configurable. Yellow works better on a dark background.)

• Harden: Prevent stylize from failing on user input. [dob-bright]

• API: Rename to avoid confusion/match other usage: stylit → rules. [dob-bright]

• Library: Refactor, Relocate, and DRY work. [dob-bright]

• API: De-scope function for broader usage. [nark]

• API: Rename function: oid_colorize → oid_stylize. [nark]

3.0.8 (2020-04-17)

• Docs: Document the interactive editor. [dob]
• Improve: Remove requirement that custom paste config be numbered sequentially. [dob-viewer]

3.0.7 (2020-04-16)

• Feature: Let user define custom key bindings for pasting arbitrary factoids. [dob-viewer]

  • I.e., user can map their own keys to setting Fact metadata, including the act@gory, tags, and the description.

  • Usage: Add 2 settings to your user config for each custom mapping.

    • One setting specifies the Factoid to parse, and the other is the key binding to use.

    • Nest them under a new [custom-paste] section. Use the prefixes, factoid_ and mapping_, and start numbering from 1.

    • For instance, within ~/.cache/dob/dob.conf, here are some custom mappings:

      [custom-paste]
      
      # Paste act@gory and 2 tags:
      factoid_1 = "Tea@Personal: #biscuit #zinger"
      mapping_1 = f4
      
      # Paste act@gory, 1 tag, and a description (if not already set):
      factoid_2 = "Tickets@Project: #num-1234: Working on baloney."
      mapping_2 = f5
      
      # Paste a few tags (the @: is required):
      factoid_3 = "@: #tag-1 #tag-2"
      mapping_3 = f6
      
      # Paste a mere description:
      factoid_4 = "#this is not a tag"
      mapping_4 = f7
      

      Then, just press F4, or F5, etc., to apply to the current Fact.

      The user can choose whatever keybindings they want, and whatever metadata.

      Note that there’s an arbitrary limit of 28 such custom paste commands.

  • See also dob add --help for a description of the Factoid format.

    Or just follow the formats in the example above.

• Feature: New command “shortcuts” (multiple command wrappers). [dob-viewer]

  • One command to copy the current Fact meta and paste to the final Fact.
    • Currently mapped to Ctrl-e.
  • One command to copy the current Fact meta, stop the final Fact, and paste to the new active Fact.
    • Currently mapped to V.
  • One command to stop the final Fact, switch to the new active Fact, and prompt for the act@gory.
    • Currently mapped to o.

• Bugfix: Entering date prefix but calling [count]-modified command crashes. [dob-viewer]

• Bugfix: Applying meaningless delta-time still marks Fact dirty nonetheless. [dob-viewer]

  • E.g., if Fact is 30 minutes wide, and you +30<TAB> to set end to 30 minutes past start, Fact Diff would show no change, but on quit, dob would ask you to save.

• Bugfix: Rift jumpers change to first/final real Fact, not gap Fact. [dob-viewer]

• UX: Swap G/gg and f/F command mappings. [dob-viewer]

• Improve?: Update active gap Fact status on the tick. [dob-viewer]

  • Updates X.XX in the text, “Gap Fact of X.XX mins. [edit to add].”
  • Except change the precision to one, e.g., X.X mins, so it updates less frequently. Otherwise, if hundredths place showing, the status message and the Fact Diff end time (which shows <now>) update at slightly different rates, but similar enough that it looks weird.

3.0.6 (2020-04-14)

• Bugfix: Crash handling clock time parse error. [dob-viewer]

  • Usually specifying clock time is okay, e.g., ‘100’ is interpreted as 1:00a. But the hour and minute components were not being bounds-checked, i.e., 0..59. So, e.g., trying to decode ‘090’ would crash (rather than be reported as not-a-date).

• Bugfix: Editor command handlers using stale “now”. [dob-viewer]

  • So, e.g., if you started dob at 5p, and now it’s 6p, and the current Fact is active (no end time), pressing ‘J’ to jump back a day would find Fact from yesterday at 5p, not 6p. (I’m sure there were more important use cases where this was more harmful, but this is the most obvious one to highlight.)

• Bugfix: Relative edit time feature broken/shadowed by delta-time bindings. [dob-viewer]

  • E.g., trying to type a relative time, say ‘+60’, in the edit time widget was been intercepted by the newish delta-time feature. Consequently, the delta-time feature is now disabled when editing the start or end time.

• Bugfix: Commando save (:w) hides status message (‘Saved {} Facts’). [dob-viewer]

• Feature: Jump to date (using G or gg command modifier prefix). [dob-viewer]

  • E.g., 20200410G will jump to first Fact on 2020-04-10.

  • User can specify (via config) allowable punctuation.

    • E.g., in addition to 20200101G to jump to New Year’s day, user can instead type 2020-01-01G, or 2020/01/01G, etc., depending on what date_separators are specified in the config.

  • More examples: 100G jumps to Fact at 1:00 AM today.

    Or type 2020/01/01 1400G or more simply 2020010114G to jump to 2p on New Year’s day, 2020.

• Feature: Wire backspace to command modifier, commando, and time-delta modes. [dob-viewer]

  • Pressing backspace will (naturally) remove the last character typed from the command modifier/commando/time-delta being built, or it’ll cancel the operation if nothing is left to remove.

• Feature: Add true first/final Fact jump commands. [dob-viewer]

  • Because G and gg stop on FactsManager group boundaries (these are the contiguous Fact “windows” the editor uses to store Facts in memory (which allows editing multiple Facts between database writes), and are used during the import process, which is really where stopping on group boundaries makes the most sense. In other words, we should probably make these commands the new G/gg, and move the old commands to other key mappings. But I’m not ready to make that… leap).
  • The new commands are wired to f (final) and F (first) Fact jump.

• Improve: Show command modifier or delta-time in status as user types. [dob-viewer]

  • Might as well, because we already display the commando as it’s built. And it provides context to the user, which could be a teachable moment, if the user is learning by mashing (keys).

• Improve: Support allow-gap toggling. [dob-viewer]

  • Now that the command modifier or time-delta is shown as a status message, it’ll be obvious to the user if allow-gap is on or off. So pressing !! will first enable allow-gap, then disable it, rather than canceling the operation.

• Improve: Let user allow-gap (e.g., !) before time-delta (-/+). [dob-viewer]

  • E.g., in addition to +10!<ENTER>, !+10<ENTER> also now works.

• Improve: Wire Ctrl-C to clear or cancel command modifier/commando/delta-time. [dob-viewer]

• Improve: Allow Tab, in addition to Enter, to finish delta-time command. [dob-viewer]

  • Because Tab is the left hand’s Enter.

• Improve: Make easy to set end to “now” on active Fact (e.g., via [ or ]). [dob-viewer]

  • For active Fact, rather than the 1-minute decrement ([) and increment (]) operators using (now - 60 seconds) or (now + 60 seconds), just use now. (So if user wants to really remove 1 minute from now they can just press the key twice, e.g., [[, or use a count modifier, e.g., 1[.)

• Improve: Linger to show ‘Saved’ message on save-and-exit commando (:wq). [dob-viewer]

• Improve: Pass carousel-active indicator to post processors. [dob-viewer]

  • So that plugins may behave differently when triggered by a save when dob is also quitting, versus a save from the interactive editor.
    • This is mostly useful so that a plugin does not errantly output any text to the display, which would mess up the editor interface.

• Improve: Add “from” to Jump Fact time reference status message, for context. [dob-viewer]

3.0.5 (2020-04-13)

• Improve: Alias command env to environs.
  • E.g., dob env.
• Feature: Make all key bindings user configurable. [dob-viewer]
  • Run dob config dump editor-keys to see all the mappings.
  • User can specify zero, one, or multiple keys for each action.
• Improve: Remove ‘escape’-only binding to avoid exit on unmapped Ctrl-keys. [dob-viewer]
• Bugfix: Catch Ctrl-C on dirty-quit confirmation, to avoid unseemly stack trace. [dob-viewer]
• Bugfix: Ctrl-W not saving on exit. [dob-viewer]
• Improve: Remove the Ctrl-W save-and-exit key binding. [dob-viewer]
  • Convention is that Ctrl-W is “close”, but what would that be in dob?
  • The command remains but the binding was removed. The user can assign a key binding in their config if they want to enable this command.
• Feature: Vim-like command mode (lite). [dob-viewer]
  • Just the three commands, :w, :q, and :wq.
  • Because dob uses EDITOR, if Vim is user’s editor, user could run :wq twice in a row to save their Fact description, leave the Vim editor, and then save and quit dob.
• Feature: Add modifier key (defaults to !) to allow interval gap. [dob-viewer]
  • E.g., consider the command -1h, which sets start 1 hour before end. If it makes the current Fact’s time shorter, then it stretches the previous Fact’s end time, as well.
    • To not touch the neighbor Fact but to leave a gap instead, press the modifier key after entering the number, e.g., -1!h.
  • User can change the modifier key via the editor-keys.allow_time_gap config setting.
• Feature: Add time command modifier (!) to allow interval gap. [dob-viewer]
  • E.g., consider the command -1h, which sets start 1 hour before end. If it makes the current Fact’s time shorter, then it stretches the previous Fact’s end time, as well.
    • To not touch the neighbor Fact but to leave a gap instead, press the modifier key after entering the number, e.g., -1!h.
• Feature: Convenient 1- and 5-minute single-key time nudging commands. [dob-viewer]
  • E.g., [ and ] to decrement or increment end by 1 min., or add shift press for 5 mins., i.e., { and }.
  • Likewise, use , and . to nudge start time backwards or forwards by 1 minute, respectively; and use < and > for five minutes instead.
  • All four keys are user-customizable, of course!
• Bugfix: Ensure Facts marked dirty after time nudging. [dob-viewer]
  • Or user is not asked to save on exit after nudging time.
• Bugfix: Long press time nudge is not increasing deltas over time. [dob-viewer]
  • E.g., if user holds Ctrl-left down, it starts adjusting the time by one minute for each press generated, but it was not increasing to five minutes per press, etc., the longer the user kept the key pressed.
• Improve: Ensure neighbor Fact time width not squashed to 0. [dob-viewer]
• Bugfix: Cannot jump to first/final fact if current Fact within jump delta. [dob-viewer]
  • E.g., Consider user is on current Fact, 2020-04-12 12:00 to 13:00, and the final Fact is from 2020-04-12 15:00 to 16:00. Pressing K does not jump to the final Fact, because it was less than 1 day ahead of current.
• Improve: On jump day from active Fact, use now as reference time. [dob-viewer]
  • This feels more natural, rather than jumping from the start of the active Fact, and prevents jumping back more than a day.
• Feature: Add Vim-like [count] prefix to Jump and Nudge commands. [dob-viewer]
  • E.g., user has been able to press j to go to the previous Fact. Now they can press 5j to go back 5 Facts.
  • Likewise for jumping by day, e.g., 2.5K will jump forward 2.5 days.
  • Same for time nudging, Ctrl-left has been used for decrementing the end time by 1 minute. Now user can specify exact amount, e.g., to decrease the end time by 4.2 minutes, the user can type 4.2<Ctrl-left>.
  • User can type ! before or after digits to signal that a time nudge command should leave a gap rather than stretching a neighbor’s time, e.g., !1<Ctrl-right> and 1!<Ctrl-right> are equivalent.
  • To give user better visibility into what’s happening, the jump commands now print a status message indicating how many days or number of Facts were jumped. When jumping by day, the time reference used is also shown, which is helpful if there’s a long Fact or Gap, so the user does not get confused when their jump does not appear to do anything (i.e., when time reference changes but locates the same Fact that was showing).
• Bugfix: Prompt crashes if user presses Ctrl-D on empty text. [dob-prompt]
• Bugfix: Prompt not positioned correctly after Escape keypress. [dob-prompt]
• Enhance: Reset chosen completer on Ctrl-C (e.g., like pressing F2). [dob-prompt]
• API: Pass Click content to post_processor handler. [dob-bright]

3.0.4 (2020-04-10)

• Bugfix: config dump -T texttable broken.
• Improve: Make texttable use full terminal width.
• Improve: Use texttable as config dump table default (better wrapping).
• Improve: Ensure plugins loaded for config commands.
• Enhance: Reload config after plugins loaded, to load plugin config.
• Bugfix: dob config get with 2 or more parts stacktraces on unknown setting.
• Enhance: Let user clear end time of final Fact. [dob-viewer]
• Bugfix: Set end time before start, and dob crashes after alert. [dob-viewer]
• Improve: Use fact_min_delta as min. width on neighbor time adjust. [dob-viewer]
• Improve: Allow config to be reloaded, to support plugin config. [dob-bright]
• Bugfix: Interactive editor gg (jump to first Fact) fails. [nark]
• Bugfix: Allow Unicode characters in config values. [dob-bright]

3.0.3 (2020-04-08)

• Deps: Update versions to profit from library bug fixes.
• Docs: Update contributing getting-started, and more.
• Enhance: Pause briefly on plugin import error so user sees message.
• Enhance: Pass path to plugins on eval, so they can load local assets.

3.0.2 (2020-04-01)

• Bugfix: Incorrect version information emitted.

3.0.1 (2020-04-01)

• Bugfix: Downstream fix repairs demo command (which was breaking because spaces in tags were not being converted properly to magic class names, causing PTK to explode, and then dob to ask something strange about okay-to-save).
• Improve: Simplify version report for non-devs.
• Docs: Runtime help fixes.
• DX: Fix Travis-CI not-POSIX issue.

3.0.0 (2020-03-30)

• Split prompt and carousel/editor interfaces to separate projects, dob-prompt and dob-viewer, respectively; and a shared project, dob-bright.
  • This not only helps keep most of the Click CLI code separate from the PPT interface code, but it removes all of the recent front end work from the original hamster-cli codebase.
    • This comes at the expense of making developer onboarding a little more of a chore, because there are that many more repositories to clone. So perhaps now is a good time to plug a multiple-repository manager – check out OhMyRepos to help you monitor all the projects that make up dob.

3.0.0a34 (2019-02-24)

• Hamster Renascence: Total Metempsychosis.
• New dob edit command, a colorful, interactive, terminal-based editor, i.e., Carousel Fact editor (though not quite a carousel, it doesn’t wrap from beginning back to end, more of a conveyor belt, but that doesn’t have quite the same image as a photo slideshow carousel).
• Sped up load time for quicker factoid entering #profiling (but who cares now that dob edit ).
• Learn dob quickly with the new dob demo feature.
• Modernized packaging infrastructure. Moved metadata to setup.cfg and dumped bumpversion for git-tags-aware setuptools_scm versioning.
• Setup HotOffThe Hamster CI accounts on Codecov, Travis CI, and ReadTheDocs.
• Attached Code of Conduct to Developer Contract.

3.0.0.beta.1 (2018-06-09)

• Add Natural language support, e.g., dob from 10 min ago to now ....
  • NOTE: For the new commands, the start and optional end times are now specified at the beginning of a new fact command, rather than after the fact (like in legacy hamster).
• New database migration commands, e.g., migrate up.
• Legacy DB support (i.e., upgrade script).
• Bulk import, with conflict resolution, and export.
• Interactive prompting! Powerful, wonderful UI to specify activity@category, and tags. With sorting and filtering. Just --ask.
• Usage-aware TAB-complete suggestions (e.g., most used tags, tags used recently, and more).
• New usage commands to show activity and tag usage counts, and cumulative durations.
• Easy, fast Fact edit-ing.
• Refactor code, mostly breaking big files and long functions.
• Seriously lacking test coverage. =( But it’s summertime now and I want to go run around outside. -lb
• Enhanced edit command.

View the hamster-cli History (pre-fork, pre-dob).