Tracking time - make it easy with traggo

For the last 2 years I have been using traggo to track my work hours. So it’s time for a big thanks to the project!

What is traggo?

Traggo is a time tracking tool which you can self host on your own server (or even run locally on your laptop or PC). So it is especially good for freelancers - otherwise just run it locally or use synonyms for your project names and critical information!

It has a very simple, but for me perfect, feature set:

• Track times using either a list based view or a calendar.
• Tag the different times to different projects or tasks for later and to get different colors in your calendar view.
• Finally you can add comments to each tracked interval and create custom dashboards for your analytics needs.

Here are some images how it looks like for me.

Note: I removed tags and comments for privacy reasons, they are normally visible.

My custom dashboard to show how much time I worked on each project

A typical calender view for my work week

Comments and tags in action

Comes Friday, I simply look at my dashboard for the hours and copy the comments for my time sheets - so easy :D

The Software is written in go (something I myself really must look into at some point in the future ^^). Using go makes the binary very small and fast, perfect even for running it locally if you have very sensitive information to track.

Go give it a try, I will probably stick with my favorite time tracking tool - traggo - for some time to come!

Setup using Docker

For easy update and maintenance (and security, too) I would recommend setting up traggo using Docker (which is what traggo recommends itself on its website, too).

I typically use a docker-compose script on my servers, so here is an example for you.

version: "3.7"
services:
  traggo:
    image: traggo/server:latest
    restart: always
    ports:
      - 3030:3030
    environment:
      TRAGGO_DEFAULT_USER_NAME: "youruser"
      TRAGGO_DEFAULT_USER_PASS: "yourstrongpw"
    volumes:
      - ./home/youruser/yourpath:/opt/traggo/data