in case you don't know about this, there is a commercial product that do a similar timer function. http://www.dovico.com/quick1.html
the following are some ideas that may be considered as a roadmap for the future development of this project.
Track IT Light:
1. Allow a breakdown of a project to tasks. i.e. for each project, there are a number of tasks. A GUI tree is available for editing. (but cannot move tasks between projects)
2. Provide a lot of reports in different dimension. e.g. weekly bulk time, timesheet that shows project and task time every day, total cumulative time report etc.
3. Can export reports to Txt, CSV, and HTML
ConsultComm:
1. ConsultComm can switch between projects very conveniently
2. Multi-platform
3. Support storing the data to DB for reuse
4. Free
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Interesting... a lot of this stuff is slated for ConsultComm 3 that's currently in beta. Such as:
- A GUI table tree organizes projects by groups - kinda like a file dialog organizes files under directories. So the GUI tree is coming soon.
- You can run reports over a standard XML file generated by ConsultComm - tho ConsultComm doesn't have any reporting on its own
- Things are exported to either tables or XML - you can use XSLT to generate Excel documents or the like
Plus, with ConsultComm 3 you get:
- An extensible plugin architecture that allows additional functionality to be added
- JavaHelp documentation
- Idle detection that lets you pause or switch projects when you're away
The reporting items are really the next big thing... maybe after ConsultComm 3.
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I think the idle detection is interesting. Does it work on Windows? If you can achieve, say, when a user is away from computer, it is switched to a predefined (say "away project/task"). And when the user is back, it switches back to the original task or prompt for selection, then this project is basically stronger than the commercial product that I mentioned above, in this time tracking area.
anyway, I think it's a useful product and you've done a good job. The idea of timing project with a timer is simple, but very useful.
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Yup - does exactly that! You can either set it to pause after x seconds or switch to another task. I usually have it set to switch to "Lunch" after five minutes.
Glad you like ConsultComm - thanks!
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.. I also like the idea of ConsultComm a lot!!
Good Job!
other question. mingfai asked about breaking down the projekts to tasks. What's about the bigger projects?
When I was studying, we worked on a project with 3 or more people.
I'd have been nice to have a tool like this with seperated sections for every tem member.
Are there any plans to do insert this too?
.
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Glad you like it!
Right now there are no plans to have multiple instances of the timer running - but I see what you're talking about (maybe something like a tabbed panel... one panel for each person on the team). That would be an interesting plugin to develop, however...
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in case you don't know about this, there is a commercial product that do a similar timer function.
http://www.dovico.com/quick1.html
the following are some ideas that may be considered as a roadmap for the future development of this project.
Track IT Light:
1. Allow a breakdown of a project to tasks. i.e. for each project, there are a number of tasks. A GUI tree is available for editing. (but cannot move tasks between projects)
2. Provide a lot of reports in different dimension. e.g. weekly bulk time, timesheet that shows project and task time every day, total cumulative time report etc.
3. Can export reports to Txt, CSV, and HTML
ConsultComm:
1. ConsultComm can switch between projects very conveniently
2. Multi-platform
3. Support storing the data to DB for reuse
4. Free
Interesting... a lot of this stuff is slated for ConsultComm 3 that's currently in beta. Such as:
- A GUI table tree organizes projects by groups - kinda like a file dialog organizes files under directories. So the GUI tree is coming soon.
- You can run reports over a standard XML file generated by ConsultComm - tho ConsultComm doesn't have any reporting on its own
- Things are exported to either tables or XML - you can use XSLT to generate Excel documents or the like
Plus, with ConsultComm 3 you get:
- An extensible plugin architecture that allows additional functionality to be added
- JavaHelp documentation
- Idle detection that lets you pause or switch projects when you're away
The reporting items are really the next big thing... maybe after ConsultComm 3.
I think the idle detection is interesting. Does it work on Windows? If you can achieve, say, when a user is away from computer, it is switched to a predefined (say "away project/task"). And when the user is back, it switches back to the original task or prompt for selection, then this project is basically stronger than the commercial product that I mentioned above, in this time tracking area.
anyway, I think it's a useful product and you've done a good job. The idea of timing project with a timer is simple, but very useful.
Yup - does exactly that! You can either set it to pause after x seconds or switch to another task. I usually have it set to switch to "Lunch" after five minutes.
Glad you like ConsultComm - thanks!
.. I also like the idea of ConsultComm a lot!!
Good Job!
other question. mingfai asked about breaking down the projekts to tasks. What's about the bigger projects?
When I was studying, we worked on a project with 3 or more people.
I'd have been nice to have a tool like this with seperated sections for every tem member.
Are there any plans to do insert this too?
.
Glad you like it!
Right now there are no plans to have multiple instances of the timer running - but I see what you're talking about (maybe something like a tabbed panel... one panel for each person on the team). That would be an interesting plugin to develop, however...