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While at cabooseconf last month, I found out about one of the coolest time tracking tools ever: punch. (Thanks to cardiod from OG)

According to its own description, it's a

k.i.s.s. tool for tracking the hours spent on various projects. it supports logging hours under a project name, adding notes about work done during that period, and several very simple reporting tools that operate over a window of time.

For those of you who use OmniFocus and won't be getting an iphone, this one could really come in handy. It's a ruby script that talks to OmniFocus via OSA, grabs all the items in a given context, then writes them as poorly-formed html over ssh to a predefined destination. Cheap and dirty, but it's the quickest way I've found to get stuff like this available anywhere, especially in a mobile phone browser.

#!/usr/bin/ruby

require 'rubygems'

require 'rbosa'

require 'net/ssh'

of = OSA.app 'OmniFocus'

shopping_list = of.default_document.contexts.collect { |x| x if x.name == 'Errands' }.compact.first.contexts.collect { |x| x if x.name == 'Shopping' }.compact.first

items = shopping_list.tasks.collect { |x| x.name unless x.completed? }.compact

def post_file( shell, file, datum )

shell.touch(file)

shell.send_command("echo \"#{datum}\" > #{file}")

end

def build_html(items)

"<ul>#{items.collect{|item| '<li>' + item + '</li>' }}</ul>"

end

Net::SSH.start( 'myserver.dreamhost.com' ) do |session|

shell = session.shell.sync

post_file shell, "~/shoppinglist.mydomain.com/index.html", build_html(items)

shell.exit

# session.loop

end