TIMEW-CONTINUE(1)

🌸 NAME 🌸

timew-continue — resume tracking of an existing interval 💖

(quick vibe check: this one lives in the User Manuals section, section 1, and it's lowkey one of the most useful little commands in the whole toolbox 🔥)

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

timew continue [<id>|<tag>...] [<datetime>|<range>]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so bestie, picture this: you stopped tracking, and now you wanna pick that work back up without typing out all your tags again 😭. That's literally the whole point of continue — it resumes tracking specified by a closed interval. It's the convenient way to resume work without re-entering the tags. Slay 💅.

The interval you're resuming can be picked out either by its id or by a set of tags. And heads up: specifying multiple ids, or both ids and tags at the same time? That's an error 🙈. Not allowed. Periodt.

When you give it a set of tags, the first interval matching that set gets taken as the blueprint for the new interval. When you give it neither an id nor tags, the first interval in the database gets taken instead 👑.

And when there's no datetime or range handed over, the new interval just starts at the current time ⭐.

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🎀 EXAMPLES 🎀

So if you run the summary command with the :ids hint, it shows you your interval IDs 💜. Consider these intervals:

$ src/timew summary :ids

Wk  Date       Day ID Tags             Start      End    Time   Total
W23 2020-06-04 Thu @4 BAR           13:00:00 14:00:00 1:00:00
                   @3 BAR, FOO      14:00:00 15:00:00 1:00:00
                   @2 BAR, BAZ, FOO 15:00:00 16:00:00 1:00:00
                   @1 FOO           16:00:00 17:00:00 1:00:00 4:00:00

4:00:00

🌈 Simple continue

$ timew continue

The continue command creates a new open interval, starting now, with tag FOO ✨.

🌈 Continue an interval via id

$ timew continue @3

The continue command creates a new open interval, starting now, with tags BAR and FOO 💅.

🌈 Continue an interval via tag set

$ timew continue FOO BAR

The continue command creates a new open interval, starting now, with tags FOO, BAR, and BAZ 🫶.

Note that the first matching interval (here @2) is taken as a blueprint for the new interval, although @3 would have been a perfect match for the given tag set 😭. The command timew continue BAR would have the same effect. This means that there is no way to continue @4 via a tag set. iykyk 💀

🌈 Continue an interval at a specific date & time

$ timew continue @4 19:00  (1)
$ timew continue FOO 19:00 (2)

The continue command creates a new open interval 🌸

1. with tag BAR (as specified by @4) and start time 19:00.
2. with tag FOO (as specified by @1) and start time 19:00.

⭐ Continue an interval with a specific range ⭐

$ timew continue @4 19:00 - 20:00  (1)
$ timew continue FOO 19:00 - 20:00 (2)

The continue command creates a new closed interval 🔥

1. with tag BAR (as specified by @4), start time 19:00, and end time 20:00.
2. with tag FOO (as specified by @1) and start time 19:00, and end time 20:00.

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

timew-cancel(1), timew-start(1), timew-stop(1), timew-track(1)

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okay that's the whole thing, go forth and resume your intervals bestie 🧚💖 — this was timew 1.9.1, dated 2025-11-02, and yes the page header said TIMEW-CONTINUE(1) the whole time 🌟