Create Toggl entries from Emacs org-mode CLOCK entries
2020-03-06: I haven’t actively used this for a few years now, but it is apparently still working. I’m happy to merge in any fixes or sensible-looking changes.
Create Toggl time tracking entries from Emacs
org-mode CLOCK entries, by assigning TOGGL_PID
and TOGGL_TID
properties to
your org headings.
See below for how to use the org-toggl.sh
script. The command runs Emacs from
the CLI and exports your org data as a JSON file to $original_path.org.json
. It
then processes the JSON in Python and uploads the relevant data to the Toggl
API. I’ve implemented it like this beacuse it’s easy to develop and automate / run
as a cron job.
pip install -r requirements.txt
to install the Python dependencies.
Emacs should have the json.el
library installed. This is part of GNU Emacs
since 23.1 (2008).
The main command is org_toggl.sh <config_path> <org_file_path> [<extra_emacs_files_to_load> ...]
.
config_path
: Path to an org-toggl configuration file, described below.
org_file_path
: The org file to be processed for Toggl entries.
extra_emacs_files_to_load
: Before exporting the org file, optionally load
these files in Emacs, in the given order. You can use this to eg. load some
custom org-mode setup so your files are exported with the correct keywords.
Toggl takes priority over org-mode: a CLOCK entry is not pushed to Toggl if
there is already a Toggl entry that starts within the CLOCK time period.
[org-toggl-py]
# Your Toggl API token
toggl_api_token = <token>
# Your Toggl workspace ID
toggl_wsid = <id>
# CLOCK entries that have a closed time older than this are skipped
skip_clocks_older_than_days = 7
TOGGL_PID
- If this value is a Toggl project ID, the entry will be assigned
to that project. If this value is t
, the entry will be pushed to Toggl
without a project. CLOCK entries are only uploaded if TOGGL_PID
has one of
these values.
TOGGL_TID
- Task ID support is partially implemented, I haven’t tested it
yet.
TOGGL_IGNORE
- If a parent headline has a TOGGL_PID
or TOGGL_TID
set,
you can assign TOGGL_IGNORE
to any value to ignore processing for a
headline and its children.
The org-export-json
function in org-export-json.el
can be used to export an
org-mode buffer from Emacs to a JSON file. This is adapted from a post on the
org-mode mailing list by Brett Viren:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2014-01/msg00338.html.
Run the function org-export-json
to export the current org-mode buffer to$file.org.json
. You can then run org-toggl.py <config_path> <json_path>
manually.