---
name: "watson"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "watson"
version: "1.8.0-0.1"
release: "Debian 11 (Bullseye)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/watson"
---

# watson(1)

helps you monitoring your time

## NAME

**watson** - helps you monitoring your time

## SYNOPSIS

```
 watson [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...
```

## DESCRIPTION

Watson is a tool aimed at helping you monitoring your time.

You just have to tell Watson when you start working on your project with the \`start\` command, and you can stop the timer when you're done with the \`stop\` command.

## OPTIONS

- **‐‐version**

  Show the version and exit.

- **‐‐help**

  Show this manpage and exit.

## COMMANDS

- **cancel**

  Cancel the last call to the start command. The time will not be recorded.

- **config**

  Get and set configuration options.

- **edit**

  Edit a frame.

- **frames**

  Display the list of all frame IDs.

- **help**

  Display help information.

- **log**

  Display each recorded session during the given timespan

- **merge**

  Perform a merge of the existing frames with a conflicting frames file.

- **projects**

  Display the list of all the existing projects.

- **remove**

  Remove a frame.

- **rename**

  Rename a project or tag.

- **report**

  Display a report of the time spent on each project.

- **restart**

  Restart monitoring time for a previously stopped project.

- **start**

  Start monitoring time for the given project.

- **status**

  Display when the current project was started and the time spent since.

- **stop**

  Stop monitoring time for the current project.

- **sync**

  Get the frames from the server and push the new ones.

- **tags**

  Display the list of all the tags.

## NOTE

This manual page was generate by genallman shellscript that uses txt2man. The script was created by Joao Eriberto Mota Filho \<eriberto@debian.org\>. The manpage was made for the **watson** package of the Debian project (but may be used by others)

If more information is necessary, please read the online documentation at  https://tailordev.github.io/Watson/user-guide/commands/