Tiro

N.B.: this code was written mostly to become familiar with Rust, and as such is not idiomatic / clean etc.

Example

tiro -a example/activities.txt

Why?

• reverse-planning

  • I need 1h12 to do X, 3h47 to do Y, do I have time to do Z after?

• same rationale as accounting, but with time

Some design decisions

• Parse line by line.

• First symbols of the line should determine what the line is

  • Easier and faster, (to parse, but also to edit)

(Non-Cargo) Requirements

• libdbus

Future Features (Ideas)

Ability to merge several plannings

• check if compatible
  • intervals are from starting date to end date (of last activity of segment)
    • could define an end-date syntax to specify manually, and insert it at the parsing stage
  • non-intersecting intervals
• merge if compatible
  • first option: insert smaller plan into bigger one
    • take parsed data, input line directly rather than using the file
    • need to register line when parsing, to be able to insert stuff back, right after the date
  • second option: keep two files separated, just generate one big plan
    • simply merge the parsed data
    • also related to hierachical categories (e.g., @work)
• ability to merge plannings if somehow compatible (comparison of times). Use dates with nothing in between as a marker, if start/end of activities match, then merge into the file

Still open

Input format

• could I just use toml or another markup language as input instead of custom?
• handle timestamps with format 015 0h 15min for faster input
• handle timestamps with only hours given

Random ideas (in)

• category tree
• define a category spreading over multiple activities to come (BEGIN / END)
• use quickcheck for testing
• profile program with a lot of data and see differences when copying or not
• use only one continuous file with all the days