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 # go-timertxt
 
+A Go library for working with timer.txt files.
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+A timer.txt file is a plain text file for timekeeping purposes. It stems from the same motivations as todo.txt (http://todotxt.org/).
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+This library is very similar to https://github.com/br0xen/go-todotxt, which is a fork of https://github.com/JamesClonk/go-todotxt.