After working as a software engineer for two years, I find writing weekly report a really tough experience.
I spent lots of time doing trivial daily works and finally I can't recall them when I need to write the fucking report.
I have to spend time writing what I did this week instead of creating useful code pieces, reading some books or having some fun.
Now with Omni Weekly, I can log what I did, what I am doing, what I plan to do into a fucking expensive GTD software called OmniFocus on the weekdays, and than generate a well formatted report when I need to.
It was first implemented with Apple's ScriptBridge, but I rewrote it and it's base on OmniFocus's SQLite database now! Visit JamesPan/py-omni-weekly to get my code.
pip install git+https://github.com/JamesPan/py-omni-weekly.git
Maybe sudo is needed for privilege issue.
After install, weekly command is in your path. See what we can do with weekly.
usage: weekly [-h] [-t TEMPLATE] [-d DEADLINE] [-p PERIOD] [-tz TIMEZONE]
[-db DATABASE]
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-t TEMPLATE, --template TEMPLATE
absolute path of template file
-d DEADLINE, --deadline-date DEADLINE
-p PERIOD, --period-days PERIOD
-tz TIMEZONE, --timezone TIMEZONE
-db DATABASE, --database DATABASE
Every argument has default value. Of cause the default template is for myself, I just need to type weekly and my report for this week up to today will be print to stdout. You can use -t or --template to pass the absolute path of a customize jinja2 template file to Omni Weekly, and pray for rendering properly.
$ weekly
1. 已经完成：
2. 仍在进行：
+ 到了北京我干了这十几年我也没有什么别的
- 颐养天年
[估计进度 ??%]
3. 下周计划：
+ 到了北京我干了这十几年我也没有什么别的
- 颐养天年
It seems I did nothing this week. With -d or --deadline we can reproduce weekly earlier or even later.
$ weekly -d 2016-10-07
1. 已经完成：
+ 到了北京我干了这十几年我也没有什么别的
- 确立社会主义市场经济
- 把邓小平的理论列入了党章
- 三个代表
[[过程记录](http://www.baidu.com)]
+ 还有一点什么成绩
- 军队一律不得经商：这个对军队的命运有很大的关系
- 军委主席：后来又干了一年零八个月，等于我在部队干了15年军委主席
- 抗洪：九八年的抗洪也是很大的
2. 仍在进行：
+ 到了北京我干了这十几年我也没有什么别的
- 颐养天年
[估计进度 ??%]
3. 下周计划：
+ 到了北京我干了这十几年我也没有什么别的
- 颐养天年
Excited.
On my Macbook, OmniFocus place it's SQLite database on ~/Library/Containers/com.omnigroup.OmniFocus2/Data/Library/Caches/com.omnigroup.OmniFocus2/OmniFocusDatabase2, but this path may be different on your Mac, it depends on the App version. So, -db and --database can help passing the right path of database to Omni Weekly.
Other arguments like -tz is for timezone, default is Asia/Shanghai，-p is for reporting period, 7 for weekly, 1 for daily, 30 for monthly, etc.
Happy Hacking!