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I think it would be nice to be able to quickly switch between different log files. This could be done by expanding the functionality of the config file to include multiple log file listings. These files would be associated with a keyword that could be passed as an argument to select a log file.

Example Config

work /home/user/documents/work-hours.txt
school /home/user/documents/school-hours.txt
default /home/user/documents/misc-hours.txt

In this example the default keyword would be used to indicate the log file used when a valid keyword is not provided as an argument. This could also be accomplished by simply defining a file path without a keyword. Which would allow existing config files to continue working like normal without any changes.

Add a feature that recursively checks for gaps in the log file and then fills in the missing days with a log of 0:00HR.

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It would be cool if this script could send notifications every n minutes.
You could then call the script with some -n 00 flag, and that would setup a timer.

The use case for this being, you want to take a break every 45 minutes.
So you run ./clock -n 45, and 45 minutes later you get a notification telling you to take a break.

Implementation

After a quick search, I was able to find a medium article on python notifications.
In the article they use a library called plyer.
It includes support for all kinds of features, and looks like it might be a little over kill.
But it does support notifications on Windows, macOS, and Linux!

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I have accidentally Ctrl-C'd my way out of this script so many times.
The current behavior is that the script just dies, and whatever hours you had are lost.
There have been times where I accidentally left the script running, and this actually came in handy.
Because of this, I don't want to just save the current hours before dying.
Instead, I think the script should simply print out whatever the current hours are and end.
That way the user has control over what to do with those hours.