Work/Time/Managment idea
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- Dancer0
Estimating does not work... trust me.
and It's just an idea.I find that I spend alot of time opening files making amends and adjusting files that all that time I spend tends to get forgotten.
Minimum charging is 15mins for me
- fyoucher10
Sounds flawed. What if you're using multiple documents for one project and have some open longer than others. Would you continually have to start and stop the timer when going in between documents. Seems easier to just keep track manually. Plus, what about the time you're working when you don't have a document open (i.e. the time you're spending on project management)?
- Maybe it would only work when documents are active/at the front?Dancer
- mydo0
don't you all just pick numbers out of the air depending on if it's fun or not. clients a cunt. mmmm. 4 hours, nah fuck it 10. (allegedly)
- Stugoo0
used to have one in my old office, i wrote a css skin so that mind had a 1984 layout. was great.
- MHDC0
- Dancer0
So version3 and Stugoo what were they?
- version30
i don't remember but you need to look into log application usage software
- johndiggity0
i feel like automator could do this with harvest or another stopwatch app...
- d_rek0
Not that i'm aware of. Harvest has a stopwatch webapp and widget for OSX... but it isn't auto-activated.
- Stugoo0
i think it could be possible,
could maybe run it as a PS plugin or a CS plugin.
If no activity for a certain amount of time it stops counting, then emails you a summary at the end of the day/start of the enxt day, where it prompts you to fill in the blanks
- Dancer0
Well if anyone comes across a piece of software like this then I would be very interested.
- Dancer0
I was thinking more of a standalone app in the corner of your screen
- doesnotexist0
wouldn't it be easier to glance at the clock and note the time every now and then?
- I am not trying to be cocky or nout but you are obviously missing the pointDancer
- johndiggity0
try making an automator action. not that hard to do. just drag and drop apps and actions.
- baseline_shift0
would it auto pause the stopwatch when you hop on QBN?
- era4O40
QuickBooks has a stopwatch widget, which is nice if you need to bill to the minute. I just use a notepad and our timekeeping system:
http://era404.com/products/timeb…
- amullins0
the slife mac client is opensource. should be a good starting point.
http://code.google.com/p/slife/
http://www.slifeweb.com/if only i had the time to learn cocoa+obj-c.