Well Casey, since I wrote the text you took such exception to, I guess it's up to me to explain it to you. Perhaps it wasnt easy enough to understand. but I wont shoot you.
I meant: You can be involved in any number of jobs at any time. Of course good time management says that unless you're a woman and into multitasking, you do one thing at a time. But in a small shop, ususally you can't get away with working on only one thing for extended periods of time. So on your task list, which TraxTime calls projects, you can have any number of them current at a time. (Other time management apps I've seen only allow you to have one project open at a time. To move from one thing to another you have to first close this one, then go and get another and open that. It's not realistic in a small shop - you're forever working on something, the phone goes and you spend a few mintues or more on another thing (like advising the client or getting instructions from the client) then back to the original job. In this app, they're "Open" in the sense they're on your lislt of tasks available to be timed when you double click on them. (as distinct from tasks which are finished, billed to the client and no longer being worked on) So .. you're working on code on site A, and client B calls you. You double click on "Project Site B" it shuts off timing work on site A and starts timing work on Site B. When you finish the conversation with client B you double click on "Project Site A" and it shuts off timing work on Site B and starts timing work on site A again. I quite frequently have days where I can work on 20 different things for 5 minutes or more during the day (the minimum period I count), some of them billable, far too many of them not billable. I want a time recording app to allow me to switch between timing one and the other without a lot of hassle, without my being required to type a whole lot, and without being required to close anything down. Trax time is one of quite a few apps that does just that, and that's why I suggested it. At the end of the day/week or however often you summarise/bill your time, it produces an itemised report of time spent, along with notes about what was done. There's also a managment version that combines time for several people, but being a one-man shop i have never needed it so i dont know much about it. Seems like that's also what you said was important in a time management app. So shoot yourself then. WTF Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com ColdFusion, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month On 1/6/06, Casey Dougall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There is nothing simple about trackint time. I don't know of a simple CF > system off hand > > AND Shoot me if I ever see this again... WTF > > "(www.spudcity.com). You can have dozens of tasks open at any one time, > and click > stop on one start on teh next when you move from working on one task to > another." > > ~~~ > > Point of a time Task Tracker is to track time spent on task, AKA project. > If > you have multiple tasks open then why even track, bill them all 8 hours > and > call it a day. > > Here are a couple of screen shots of what what a CF time tracking app > looks > like. > > This shot shows a clock that you can click to start time on a project or > task > http://gmj-music.biz/time1.gif > > This shot shows how time starts to add up per project. Sorry total task > time > was cut off. > http://gmj-music.biz/time2.gif > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:228614 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
