@heykb/pi-tree-time

Show a timestamp on every row of pi's built-in session tree view — not just labeled entries.

Open /tree like you always do. Every entry now carries the time it happened:

Install

pi install npm:@heykb/pi-tree-time

Restart pi. That's it — no new commands, no keybindings to learn.

Why

pi's session tree already shows timestamps for labeled entries (press shift+t), but unlabeled rows — most of your actual work — show nothing. When you resume a session from yesterday and ask "what did I do at 3pm?", you're blind.

This extension fixes that by decorating every row with its entry time, using pi's own timestamp formatting:

• today → HH:mm
• this year → M/D HH:mm
• older → YY/M/D HH:mm

How it works

~40 lines, zero dependencies. It reaches the internal TreeList prototype behind TreeSelectorComponent (via its public getTreeList()) and wraps getEntryDisplayText, prefixing each row with the entry's timestamp.

It's a monkey-patch over internals, so:

• If pi upgrades and renames things, the patch silently no-ops — your tree view just goes back to normal. Nothing crashes.
• Tested against pi 0.84.x.

Compatibility notes

• The tree's incremental search also matches the time prefix, so typing digits can match times. Harmless in practice.
• Timestamps render in ANSI gray, independent of your theme.

License

MIT