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NAME

timew-annotate - add an annotation to intervals

SYNOPSIS

timew annotate [<id>...] <annotation>

DESCRIPTION

The 'annotate' command is used to add an annotation to an interval.

See the 'summary' command on how to display the <id> and <annotation>
of an interval.

EXAMPLES

Annotate a single interval

Call the command with an id and the annotation:

$ timew annotate @2 'Lorem ipsum'
Annotated @2 with "Lorem ipsum"

Remove an annotation

Annotating an interval with an empty string removes the
annotation:

$ timew annotate @1 ''
Removed annotation from @1

Annotate multiple intervals

You can annotate multiple intervals with the same annotation at
once, by specifying their ids:

$ timew annotate @2 @10 @23 'Lorem ipsum'
Annotated @1 with "Lorem ipsum"
Annotated @10 with "Lorem ipsum"
Annotated @23 with "Lorem ipsum"

Annotate the current open interval

If there is active time tracking, you can omit the ID when you
want to add an annotation to the current open interval:

$ timew start foo
...
$ timew annotate bar
Annotated @1 with "bar"

This results in the current interval having tag 'foo' and
annotation 'bar'.

BUGS & LIMITATIONS
The summary command truncates annotations longer than 15 characters.
To display longer annotations, one can use the 'export' command, or a
custom report.

Currently, the annotation command picks the last token from the
command line and uses it as annotation. I.e. using no quotes in an
annotation command like

$ timew annotate @1 lorem ipsum

will result in interval @1 having only 'ipsum' as its annotation.
Use quotes to avoid this.

SEE ALSO

timew-export(1), timew-summary(1), timew-tag(1)

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