time-logger

What This Skill Does

The Time Logger skill is a robust, local-first sysops toolkit designed for tracking, monitoring, and managing system operation history directly from the command line. Unlike cloud-based time trackers that require subscriptions or network connectivity, Time Logger operates entirely on your local machine using flat log files. Each entry is timestamped, ensuring a reliable audit trail of your technical activities. The skill provides specialized commands for various sysops tasks—ranging from resource scanning and uptime monitoring to backup verification and patching—enabling users to maintain granular control over their workflow documentation without overhead.

Installation

To integrate this utility into your OpenClaw environment, execute the following command in your terminal: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/bytesagain/time-logger

Ensure that your environment meets the minimum requirements: Bash 4.0+ and standard Unix utilities such as date, grep, and tail. The skill is zero-dependency, meaning it will function immediately upon installation without requiring external packages or API configurations.

Use Cases

1. System Maintenance Tracking: Use the fix, cleanup, and backup commands to maintain a chronological record of system maintenance, ensuring you can audit when specific patches or data recoveries occurred.
2. Resource Monitoring: Leverage the scan, top, and usage commands to keep logs of peak resource consumption, helping to identify performance bottlenecks or trends over time.
3. Operational Auditing: Use the report and check commands to document routine health checks and summarize daily incident reports for team documentation.
4. Activity Analysis: Utilize the stats and export features to generate CSV or JSON reports for personal productivity reviews or project billing documentation.

Example Prompts

1. "Log a new fix: 'Updated kernel to v6.5 to resolve memory leak.'"
2. "Show me the last 20 monitor logs to see if there have been any service interruptions."
3. "Export all my current logs to CSV so I can import them into Excel for my weekly report."

Tips & Limitations

• Efficiency: Because this tool relies on local flat files, it is extremely fast. However, for massive datasets, consider regular log rotation using the cleanup command to maintain disk space efficiency.
• Privacy: Since all data stays in ~/.local/share/time-logger/, your logs are private and secure. Remember to manually back up this folder if you want to preserve your history across machine migrations.
• Formatting: All entries follow a simple YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM|<input> format, making it easy to build custom scripts to parse your logs later if standard exports do not meet your needs.