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In Alain-Vandormael/successr: The Ultimate Success Plan

successr

Tracking work and wasted time for ultimate success.

successr is an R tool for tracking the amount of time you work (and waste) during the day. At a metaphysical level, time can be divided into two categories: work time and wasted time. Work time is effectively used when you focus on at most two relevant projects during the day. Wasted Time includes anything that does not fall in Project 1 and/or Project 2. Culprits for Wasted Time are typically toilet/cigarette/watercooler excursions, lunch breaks, unannounced visits by the boss, any meeting, internet surfing, chit chat with colleagues, or courtesy calls by telemarketers, friends/family, and partner(s). Effective time use is surely the first step to ultimate success.1

Clicking Project 1, Project 2, and Wasted Time starts the timer, and Stop stops the timer. Report gives a daily, weekly, monthly breakdown of work time. Edit allows you to edit only the time recorded during the day and the Task (from a drop-down menu). DayData.txt allows you to edit the total time for a given day (see below).

Upon installation, successr will setup a data folder (where the data is stored) with a configuration file, called config.yml. The folder can be found in Sys.getenv("HOME"). If you want to specify an alternative folder path, then you must put in your .Rprofile the following line: Sys.setenv(R_SUCCESS = "my/folder/path"). In my Rprofile set-up, I have Sys.setenv(R_SUCCESS = "~/Dropbox/successr") so I can sync between my work and home computers. Labels for Project 1, Project 2, Wasted Time and the Window Title can be changed in the config.yml file. But don't waste time doing this, just use the default settings.

Install using the remotes package: remotes::install_github("vando026/successr").

After installation, type in R:

successr::successr()

Installation notes

(May 17, 2022)

Unfortunately, dependency packages such as RGtk2 and gWidgetsRGtk2 have been archived on the CRAN repo, making it difficult to install successr. Plans are to waste further time porting this project to python. The R version of this project is therefore deprecated.

Alain-Vandormael/successr documentation built on May 24, 2022, 7:28 p.m.