HomeTime-Tracker 2.0 is now live
Time-Tracker v2.0 is now live.
If you are not familiar with it, the Time-Tracker is a simple productivity tool that keeps track of the time you spend on any task. It is ideal for people who bill clients by the hour and for those who just want help with their time management.
The Time-Tracker takes the guess-work out of the equation. Use it when you’re ready to start a new task and when you switch tasks. It is designed to be as little intrusive as possible. You’re never more than a couple clicks away from keeping it up-to-date.
This new version includes drag & drop sorting, unlimited nesting of tasks, time-slice level comments, and more. It was tested with IE6(*), Firefox 1.5, Opera 8.5 and Safari 2.0.2.
I’m looking for developers to contribute 3rd party components (widgets, reporting tools…). If you’re interested, please get in touch with me .
Version 1.0 will be taken down around 10pm GMT-5. I expect the transition to go smoothly, but if you encounter any problem, please report it here in the comments or on the discussion board.
(*) If you use IE6 and experience any problem with the Time-Tracker, please drop me an email. If possible keep a note of any javascript error you get.
Technorati Tags: Productivity, Time Management, Time-Tracker, Ajax
January 17th, 2006 at 5:53 pm
Hello, i’m using time tracker 2 and experienced a problem: the “edit time slices” are not working. I select the date, edit the hour but when i hit “ok” it ignores the command. I use windows 2000 SP4 and firefox 1.07. Congratulations with time tracker and formassembly
I use it a lot!
January 17th, 2006 at 8:47 pm
Thank you for the nice Beta-version and this new 2.0;
though i miss the nice Frame-work in the beta-version with
the days number to the left and with the different shades of green colours between the lines/tasks.
Peerhaps you will get used to the new looks of formassembly.
Now you can adjust the time and the total time changes at the same time; even if like Carnerio says the time slice time does not change accordingly.
Thanks again for your nice work.
January 17th, 2006 at 9:05 pm
Thanks for reporting the problem with the time-slice editing. Part of it is a browser cache issue. The new clock has a date selector below it, with the + and - buttons on the sides.
If you see the old clock, you need to clear your browser cache and restart the browser.
There’s also a related problem. When you edit the time-slice and click ok, the timer does not immediately show the change. But it will in its next update (every minute). I’ll work on that.
January 17th, 2006 at 9:29 pm
I’m using firefox and for some reason, a ctrl-refresh wasn’t enough to get the new clock widget. I actually had to manually clear my cache.
January 17th, 2006 at 10:24 pm
My primary task, which I believe was approaching 100 hours, appears to have rolled over to a large negative number.
January 17th, 2006 at 10:34 pm
Also, that same task was mysteriously given the name and category of one of my other tasks. I had to manually change it back.
Additionally, a couple of times when I used the clock widget, my whole browser mysteriously turned white. I had to refresh the page to get timetracker back.
I am using Maxthon, which adds tabs and other functionality to Internet Explorer.
January 18th, 2006 at 12:13 am
cool… now i can edit the time slices! Tahnks a lot… sometimes i forget to just clear my cache to solve problems. I saw another thing. After some time time tracker asks my password again. When i enter it, the box don’t disappear. Even if i check the “log in automatically” it asks me to type the password…
January 18th, 2006 at 12:36 am
Carneiro.. I’m working on that. Should be fixed sometimes today.
January 18th, 2006 at 12:51 am
I find that TimeTracker keeps logging me out if I leave it for a while. However, if I simply refresh the page, I’m logged back in.
January 18th, 2006 at 2:34 am
Hiya. I like the new version. The clock hands function properly for me now and I like the comment feature on each task slice, and the nesting function. Good job! This thing really helps me at work so bossman can see how much time things take and quit burying me. Here are some possible bugs.
Main bug in both browsers:
-won’t hold my auto-login preference like the old version would. But it does this (or doesn’t) in two different ways.
Firefox:
-when I set a task running and I go do my work for a while, and I come back when I’m finished to stop the timer, it tells me my session may have expired and the login pulldown comes down, prompting me to log in again. I try to log in again, and I click the auto-login checkbox, and I click Login, but the pulldown won’t go away. I see on the main screen that the little “save in progress” notice comes up, but the pulldown won’t go away on it’s own, and the little down arrow which normally toggles it down/up is inactivated. I can still continue to use the time tracker after that, but the pulldown won’t retract. If I close out of the browser and come back, it logs me in automatically, but the same thing happens again if I leave a task running for a while - it tells me my session may have expired and prompts me to login again.
-Also on that pulldown when my session expires, there’s the login button and next to it is the word “or” but there’s nothing after that. So it’s like, “Login or…”. Or what?
-Also, if I have had the screen up but no tasks running, like if I’ve been away at lunch, it prompts me to login again just like if I’ve left a task running for a long time. But in this instance, the pulldown does retract as you’d expect. So that’s marginally better than the above situation. Still don’t want to have to keep logging in though.
Internet Explorer:
-When first arrived on the page, it prompted me to log in, but the pulldown wasn’t down and wouldn’t come down. Now it’s working. Not sure what that was.
-When I log in, I click the auto login checkbox for next time, but if I close the browser and come back, it still makes me log in again. Old version would hold it.
-I had a task at about 4.5 hours, and was starting and stopping it to play around with the new interface. And somehow it became -119.52 hours. No large numbers or negative numbers like that show up in my (visible) history of slices, and when I toggle between daily, weekly, and monthly views, I can tell that the large negative slice lives somewhere back in the history before this week or last week. Through fiddling with the past dates and times, I got it to go back to normal, but I don’t understand how any past ones got altered to start with. Don’t know if this was exclusive to IE, but that’s where it happened.
-the report function does not work for me in IE. I have popups enabled just in case that had anything to do with it, but still no dice. Down in my status bar I get “Error on page” when I try to launch the report.
General:
-It would be nice to be able to fully delete a time-slice in the Edit Time-Slice view rather than just set it to zero if it had been running in error or forgotten about.
-It would be nice to be able to see the full history of time slices since the task began. It appears to only go back so far at this point, at least for some tasks. I think the last version had some kind of third party Excel export option. Does this one? I think the Report function would be a handy place to see that kind of full time-slice history. I see that the report says “Coming Soon” so maybe you’re planning something like that.
January 18th, 2006 at 2:39 am
Whoops. It took me so long to write the above comment that other people reported my same logout error before I finished.
January 18th, 2006 at 3:01 am
Eric, thanks a lot for the thorough report. The session time-out problem should be fixed, at least in firefox.. still testing in IE.
The report bug in IE is fixed too.
Make sure to reload the page to get all the bug fixes (clear cache if necessary).
The negative number problem in IE looks similar to what J.R. reported. I need to investigate it further.
January 18th, 2006 at 3:08 am
As for the suggestions about the time-slices:
- delete a time-slice: Yes, will add that soon.
- show more time-slices: Yes in the report, no in the editor. Ultimately I need to consolidate old time-slices to speed up the app and save on bandwidth (not a problem yet, but will be one sooner or later).
January 18th, 2006 at 4:23 am
How about the tasks going into an archive, ideally in chronological order, so we can review the tasks, order, time used, etc. as a bit of an annual review. (or did I miss that option?)
HH
January 18th, 2006 at 4:43 am
cedsav:
Couldn’t you just have a button on the edit timeslice page like “show all timeslices”, so that the user could request to edit all the data when they wanted to? Heck, as often as such an operation is necessary, I wouldn’t mind a completely separate page w/ no fancy stuff.
January 18th, 2006 at 6:12 am
I like the new winding behavior of the clock, but it’s annoying that the minute hand jumps from where I stopped dragging it.
January 19th, 2006 at 1:14 am
Any chance of being able to manually add new timeslices (for when I’ve done some work away from thew PC)
And also being able to type in a time rather than use the clock
January 19th, 2006 at 1:34 am
Ken, you can add a time-slice by starting and stopping the timer. Then edit it to adjust the time.
Dates are not directly editable because there are just too many ways one could enter a date/time (am/pm vs. 24h clock for instance).
January 19th, 2006 at 4:41 am
it looks like the first minute of a timing session doesn’t get logged. The 0h00mn text only appears after the first minute, and then after the second minute (but the first minute after that text has appeared), only then does it roll over to 0h01mn.
No problem to minus 1 minute from the logs at the end for my own record-keeping, but thought I’d let you know of the bug.
cool site. plan on using it. thx.
January 19th, 2006 at 5:44 am
This is really cool. I have ben looking for something like this for some time now. Thank you for the app.
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January 19th, 2006 at 11:42 pm
I was happily using your previous version until the new upgrade was forced on me. There are several things that I find inferior on the new version in comparison to the previous one:
- dates do not display
- timer doesn’t start automatically when you create a new task
- cannot run multiple timers
- no task dropdown list available- have to retype each time you wan to enter a task (even if you used it on a previous day)
I was happy with the previous version. Can I use that instead?
Thanks!
January 20th, 2006 at 12:18 am
Carissa, thanks for your comments.
No, you can’t use the previous version anymore (I can’t support several versions of the same app).
By ‘dates do not display’ I assume you’re talking about the start date that was showing on the task list. I removed it to clear up the interface. But you’ll get this information back in the report when it’s ready.
‘timer doesn’t start’. That’s an oversight on my part. I’ll fix that asap.
You *can* run multiple timers at the same time, just edit your preference settings in the drop-down account panel.
As for the task drop-down, I may bring iy back for the categories if more people request it. But I don’t think it was a very useful feature for the task names (if you have recurring identical tasks can’t you just keep the existing one ?)
January 20th, 2006 at 12:53 am
THANK YOU! This is toalty waht I’ve been looking ofr!
question:
is there a way to manually add time?
this would be helpful for offline tasks and to include stufff i forget to time.
January 20th, 2006 at 1:05 am
Kurt, just start/stop a task and edit the time using the clock as necessary. Might not be the best way to catch up on offline tasks… but hopefully that’ll do it for now.
January 20th, 2006 at 1:16 am
The “anonymous” account with no password does not work, gives an error about a null password.
January 20th, 2006 at 3:09 am
Thanks Randy, it’s fixed now.
January 20th, 2006 at 6:33 am
I love the site! I was wondering is there any way of printing any given day’s work.
Is there any way of having more than one account linked to the same email address. I’d like to keep track of my time for more than one job, and time spent at home.
January 24th, 2006 at 10:31 am
To answer Horacio’s question… email is optional. You can have as many accounts as you want.