📊 MOT - MoneyBird Time Tracker

A beautiful terminal-based interface for managing your MoneyBird time entries with style.

✨ Features

• 🖥️ Terminal-based UI built with Ratatui
• 🚀 Blazingly fast, written in Rust
• 📆 Browse and navigate time entries by week
• 🔄 Automatically refreshes data
• 🧩 Connects directly to MoneyBird's API
• 🔌 Plugin system for integrating with external tools
• 🌙 Proper error handling with helpful messages
• 🔐 Secure configuration for your API credentials
• 🌓 Automatic detection of system theme (light/dark mode)
• 🌐 Multilingual support with easy language switching

🚀 Installation

Using Cargo

cargo install mot

Pre-built Binaries

Pre-built binaries and packages are available on the GitHub releases page for multiple platforms and architectures:

Binary Archives

• Linux: x86_64, ARM (32/64-bit), RISC-V, PowerPC, s390x, and MUSL variants
• Windows: 32-bit and 64-bit zip archives
• macOS: Intel and Apple Silicon (ARM64) builds
• FreeBSD: x86_64 builds

Package Formats

• Debian/Ubuntu: Native .deb packages
• Red Hat/Fedora/SUSE: RPM packages
• Arch Linux: AUR package
• macOS: Homebrew formula and DMG disk image
• Nix: Package for NixOS and Nix package manager

Each release includes SHA256 checksums for verifying file integrity.

Quick Installation

# Linux x86_64 example
curl -L https://github.com/Tuurlijk/mot/releases/download/[version]/mot-linux-x86_64.tar.gz | tar xz
./mot

# Or install using your system's package manager
# Debian/Ubuntu
sudo dpkg -i mot_[version]_amd64.deb

# Homebrew (macOS)
brew install mot

Replace [version] with the desired release version (e.g., v1.4.56).

🔧 Configuration

On first run, MOT will create a default configuration file at:

• Linux/macOS: ~/.config/mot/config.toml
• Windows: %APPDATA%\mot\config.toml

You'll need to edit this file to add your MoneyBird API token:

access_token = "your_moneybird_api_token"
api_url = "https://moneybird.com/api/v2"
administration_id = "your_administration_id" # Optional
week_starts_on = "monday" # Options: monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday, saturday, sunday
language = "en" # Options: en, nl (Optional, defaults to system language)

🔌 Plugin System

MOT includes a plugin system that allows integrating time entries from external sources. Plugins use a simple JSON-RPC protocol over stdin/stdout, making them easy to implement in any language.

Using Plugins

• Press p in the main view to see loaded plugins.
• In the plugin view, use Space to toggle a plugin's activation status (requires restart to take effect) and Ctrl+D to debug the selected plugin.
• Time entries from enabled and initialized plugins appear alongside regular MoneyBird entries in the main view.
• Plugin entries can be imported into MoneyBird by selecting them and pressing i.

Plugin Location

The application automatically detects the standard configuration directory for your system:

• Linux: Uses $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/mot/plugins or defaults to $HOME/.config/mot/plugins/
• macOS: Uses ~/Library/Application Support/mot/plugins/
• Windows: Uses %APPDATA%\mot\plugins\

Each plugin should be in its own subdirectory with the required files:

1. manifest.toml - Plugin metadata.
2. config.toml - Plugin configuration (including an enabled = true/false key).
3. Executable - The plugin binary or script.

Example Plugins

The repository includes example plugins in various languages:

# Install the hello example plugin (Bash)
examples/plugins/install-hello-plugin.sh

# Install the Python example plugin
examples/plugins/install-python-plugin.sh

For detailed plugin development information, see docs/Plugins.md.

Available Community Plugins

Besides the examples included in the repository, here's a known community plugin:

• mot-plugin-gitlab: Fetches time tracking logs directly from GitLab activity and commit messages.

🌐 Localization

MOT provides full internationalization support for all user-facing text:

• Supported Languages:

  • English (en)
  • Dutch (nl)

• Setting the Language:

  • Via command line: mot -l nl or mot --language nl
  • Via configuration file: Add language = "nl" to your config.toml

You can also override the language for a single session by using the command line flag, which takes precedence over the configuration file setting.

📖 Usage

Simply run mot to start the application. Use the following keyboard shortcuts:

General Navigation & Actions

• ◀ / h: Previous week
• ▶ / l: Next week
• t: Go to current week
• r: Refresh time entries
• ▲ / k: Move selection up
• ▼ / j: Move selection down
• p: View plugins
• q: Quit the application
• F12: Toggle log panel visibility

Time Entry Management (Main View)

• c: Create a new time entry
• e / Enter / Space: Edit selected time entry
• d / Delete: Delete selected time entry (with confirmation)
• x: Export current view to CSV (with confirmation)
• i: Import selected plugin time entry into MoneyBird

Search Mode (Filter)

• f / /: Enter search/filter mode
• Type to filter entries
• Esc: Exit search mode
• Ctrl+U: Clear search input

Edit Mode

• Tab: Move to next field
• Shift+Tab: Move to previous field
• Ctrl+S: Save changes (create or update entry)
• Esc: Cancel editing / Hide autocomplete dropdown
• (Project/Contact Fields)
  • Type to search
  • Enter: Select highlighted autocomplete item / Move to next field if no dropdown
  • ↑ / ↓: Navigate autocomplete dropdown
  • Ctrl+U: Clear autocomplete input
• (Description Field)
  • Enter: Move to next field
  • Shift+Enter: Insert newline
• (Date/Time Fields)
  • Enter: Move to next field

Plugins View

• ↑ / k: Select previous plugin
• ↓ / j: Select next plugin
• Space: Toggle activation status of selected plugin (requires restart)
• Ctrl+D: Debug selected plugin (show response / initialization info)
• p / Esc: Return to main view
• q: Quit the application

User Selection (Initial Setup)

• ↑ / k: Select previous user
• ↓ / j: Select next user
• Enter: Confirm selected user and save to config

Modals (Pop-ups)

• Enter / y: Confirm action / Dismiss info/error modal
• Esc / n: Cancel action / Dismiss modal
• Any other key: Dismiss info/error modal

🛣️ Roadmap

• Add screenshot before release
• Add vhs gif recording with dummy data
• Filter view by client and project
• Export filtered CSV for a given week number
• Internal logging + logging pane
• CRUD operations for time entries
• Plugin system for external time entries
• Import plugin time entries into MoneyBird
• Toggle plugin activation
• Plugin debugging tools
• Pull time logs from gitlab using dialogue (Example plugin idea)
• Contact browser
• CRUD operations for contacts
• Project browser
• CRUD operations for projects
• Add ci workflows
• Localization (English and Dutch)
• Additional language support (contributions welcome!)
• Show daily total hours in column per client in time entry view
• When a time entry from a plugin is selected, mark moneybird entries for that client and day so they stand out
• Loading indicator when fetching plugin time entries
• Export as pdf: https://crates.io/crates/markdown2pdf

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

1. Fork the repository
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b amazing-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add some amazing feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin amazing-feature)
5. Open a Pull Request

📜 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

💖 Acknowledgements

• MoneyBird for providing the API
• Ratatui for the amazing TUI framework
• Dennis Ameling for the original MoneyBird OpenAPI specification, which was trimmed using apisnip for this project.
• All contributors who have helped shape this project