Usage
=====

Call ``getan`` or ``getan.py`` in a terminal to start
with an empty list of tasks that you want to track time for.

Use the Insert-Key to add a new task to track.
(A *task* is called *project* within getan.)
You will have to enter a project "key" and a project "description".

Now select one of the projects with the arrow keys from your keyboard
and press enter to start the clock. See ``INTRODUCTION`` for more keyboard
commands.

The time log entries will be saved in an sqlite database,
by default getan will create ``~/.getan/time.db``.
The ``scripts/`` will help to generate reports from them.

Tree mode
---------
Getan supports a hierarchy of projects. A top level project key
has only one character, once you starting using a second character
as project key, it will be the next level down in the hierarchy.
Example::

    a    Top level project
    aa   1st second level project
    ab   2nd second level project
    aba  Third level Project

Use the switch_project_order key which is ``f2`` by default
to cycle to the hierarchical view.


Customization
-------------

Use ``~/.getan/getanrc`` or the system-wide ``/etc/getanrc``
to customize keys and colors. See ``getan/config.py`` for
the recognized options. Example::

    [keybindings]
    # changes the insert function to be activated by the `)` key
    insert: )

    [theme]
    header: light green, dark green
    body: light green, black



Installation
============

Getan requires `urwid <http://urwid.org/>`_ in a version >= 1.0. Urwid is
a console user interface library written in Python. For console output e.g.
zeiterfassung.py Getan also requires `Jinja2 <http://jinja.pocoo.org/>_`.

Install urwid
-------------

On Debian GNU/Linux >= Wheezy just run as root:::

    $ apt-get install python-urwid

On other systems urwid may be installed via pip or directly put into the sources
of getan.

Using pip
^^^^^^^^^

To install urwid via pip run as root::

    $ pip install urwid

Or if you prefer using a virtualenv::

    $ virtualenv getan-env
    $ source getan-env/bin/activate
    (getan-env)$ pip install -U pip  # to get the latest pip
    (getan-env)$ pip install urwid

Using urwid sources
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Urwid can be put as source to the getan directory when getan is run directly
from the sources. Urwid source can be downloaded from `pypi
<https://pypi.python.org/pypi/urwid/>`_.

For urwid 1.1.2 the direct download link from pypi is
`<https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/u/urwid/urwid-1.1.2.tar.gz>`_
(sha256sum is
f56568b4f8459b3265c65d9e275ef72df6cb16ad0c291f0feb027cc911ea0f26).::

    $ cd getan-source
    $ v=urwid-1.1.2
    $ curl -O https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/u/urwid/$v.tar.gz
    $ sha256sum $v.tar.gz
    $ tar -xzvf $v.tar.gz
    $ ln -s $v/urwid urwid

Install Jinja2
--------------

On Debian GNU/Linux just run as root:::

    $ apt-get install python-jinja2

On other systems jinja2 may be installed via pip or directly put into the
sources of getan.

Using pip
^^^^^^^^^

To install jinja2 via pip run as root::

    $ pip install jinja2

Or if you prefer using a virtualenv::

    $ source getan-env/bin/activate
    (getan-env)$ pip install jinja2

Install getan
-------------

A installation of getan is not required. It can also be run directly from the
sources. To install getan system wide the following command must be run as root
user::

    $ python setup.py install

Starting getan
==============

Getan can be directly run from sources or after a system wide installation from
the bin dir (e.g. /usr/bin).

Running from Sources
--------------------

To run getan from the sources run::

    $ ./getan.py

or::

    $ ./getan.py /path/to/mytime.db

to choose a different sqlite3 database then the default time.db


Running from installation
-------------------------

After installing getan it can be run with::

    $ getan

or::

    $ getan /path/to/mytime.db


CREDITS
=======
Getan is Free Software licensed under the terms of GNU GPL v>=3.
For details see LICENSE coming with the source of 'getan'.


Main development
----------------
2014-(current maintainer) Bernhard E. Reiter <bernhard@intevation.de>
2011-2014 Björn Ricks <bjoern.ricks@intevation.de>
2010 Ingo Weinzierl <ingo.weinzierl@intevation.de>
2009-2014 Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas@intevation.de>
2008-2010 Sascha L. Teichmann <sascha.teichmann@intevation.de>

Contributions
-------------
Magnus Schieder
Frank Koormann
Stephan Holl
Tom Gottfried

Thanks
------
To all users that gave feedback, especially at Intevation.


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