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This is a fantastic idea!

I'm going to write a similar one for myself. It never occurred to me that I could use a markdown file as a data files to record time against.

I keep a log of my work, inspired by .plan files, such as this, I will just tuck in the times against each day and get myself a timesheet system, thanks!

   plan.md
   
   ### 2021-01-07-thu :0830-1700-45m 
   
   * fix for initdb generating wrong index causing the tests to fail and creating new c/u every run [bug]
   * more fixes for tests to run reliably


In case you have one file per day you could also consider using a YAML frontmatter like it’s used in Jekyll[1]. Then you could capture the time-related info as structured meta-data.

[1] https://jekyllrb.com/docs/front-matter/



Well done, and great that you could adapt the idea to your workflow.


And good that you tackle the test setup – that’s neglected far too often unfortunately.




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