Comments on: Time your projects while online with web based SlimTimer

By: dt

dt — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:26:44 +0000

Another great time tracking app is available at TSheets

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Thu, 17 Aug 2006 18:49:15 +0000

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By: TDavid

TDavid — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 19:21:11 +0000

Hello Richard, thanks for stopping by. When you polish stuff up just stop back by here. I think maybe only one time I’ve re-graded something, but I’m open to the concept if the changes are significant enough. Probably would be more likely to update this post (either with a comment here or in the post above) than create a new one, but I think everybody deserves the chance to improve things so just drop back here when you have made all your changes and I’ll take another look.

Lestat - just saw another project management site today: toggl.com. This must be a hot area right now.

By: Richard White

Richard White — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 19:07:51 +0000

All very excellent points. I’m working on releasing a new Timer this weekend that addresses all of those concerns (quick create is cryptic, tag/comments is unitiutive).

As far as offline timing goes, I’m releasing and API this weekend so people will be able to build whatever offline clients they wish (a number of people have expressed interest in doing just that). I also have been researching how to make the current browser based Timer work offline. I expect something on that in the next couple week.

There is a blog (http://www.height1percent.com/articles/category/slimtimer) although there was no link to it inside the application so I can see why you would have missed it (there is now).

Is there anyway I can ask for a re-grade once I polish these things up

By: TDavid

TDavid — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:26:40 +0000

I looked at Basecamp a year or so ago: http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050605/1975/

The being on somebody else’s server part is my disappointment with all of these web pooh point oh apps. Servers and hosting aren’t that expensive, there are very few reasons people/organizations need to pay monthly fees for hosted apps like these.

By: ^Lestat

^Lestat — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:10:15 +0000

I’ve recently been using basecamp with a group of us who manage a website. It’s actually pretty handy. It includes rss feeds. A great place to create a changelog too. Of course, the only drawback is that it’s on someone elses sever. But for the price, and not having to manage it yourself. It’s really not to shabby

By: ^Lestat

^Lestat — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 15:08:33 +0000

UPDATE: One of the more useful features of leaving comments and tags is really something to get used to. How you do it is click the “Tag/Comment” link, post your comments, and then click the “Tag/Comment” link again. An obviuos submit button or link would be helpful here. I wasn’t really sure the comment posted right away.

To view the comments on the project, you need to click on ‘Edit Entries’ in your account, for that task. A bit too much navigation for me.

By: ^Lestat

^Lestat — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 15:05:03 +0000

Great concept.

I Agree it’s not intuitive at all. The interaction with the main ap vs. the reporting took quite a bit of clicking around to figure out what is what. I have a lot of offline projects too that this would not fit the bill for.

I do think that this developer is headed in the right direction though. It does function quite well, just not user friendly.