Comments on: OfficeTime - 3 FREE License Giveaway - Winners Have Been Announced

By: jonahjoselow

jonahjoselow — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:51:51 +0000

To be able to suspend the clock automatically when an application isn’t being used

By: jfisher

jfisher — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 08:44:06 +0000

It’s mostly a mental thing, but what I would like to see would be a countdown+countup timer.

Instead of starting a task and saying: “Ok start counting, but I have no idea how long it will take and there is no limit to the amount of time that this timer will count up to.”

I would like to set a period, saying: “Ok, I’ll give myself 20 min to finish this task. If it takes longer, I want to see that and have it recorded, but at least for the first 20 min, I want a countdown to keep me on track.”

e.g.
Set 20
countdown starts (maybe in green)
reaches last 2 min (turns yellow)
reaches zero, beeps turns red
starts counting up (either from zero, or from the original 20 min)

Of course it would also keep track of when I finish things early.

I’ve tried all 20 or so time tracker apps out there, and yours was in the top three.

By: Mat

Mat — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 03:08:35 +0000

The software looks very interesting, and in playing with it, I pine for the ability to get this info into QuickBooks easily, or better yet, have this as some sort of QB plug-in.

Thanks for the demo!

By: helba

helba — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:05:04 +0000

It�s a very useful piece of software. It would be great if it could be possible to add other units - e. g. pages or characters. With some of my customers I bring these to the account.

By: tom_schmidt

tom_schmidt — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:03:42 +0000

A mobile version of OfficeTime running on iPhone and/or Windows Mobile Device, so you could keep track of your time on the go!
The data should be synced with the desktop version in order to write invoices or do some reports.

By: jonahjoselow

jonahjoselow — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:08:26 +0000

to track how long an app is not just open, but actually used and not minimized.

By: maxsimms

maxsimms — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:00:06 +0000

The ability to drag-and-drop to email is handy, but it would be even more useful for me if information could be automatically emailed to specified addresses at specified intervals. This would enable users like myself to send daily (or whatever time period) reports without needing to open an email client, copying information over, and then sending the reports manually.

By: iamcarlo

iamcarlo — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:02:22 +0000

I know it was a conscious decision to not put seconds in the timer but aesthetically I would like to see the seconds if only so that you can tell the timer is actually on. You could make it an option.

I live in a country that doesn’t use decimal points with regards to currency. The ability to get rid of the decimals would be great. (This is a problem in most of the billing software I have.)

I bill in time units of 30, 45, 60 and 90 at different rates. The ability to set the rate/time unit would be great as well.

Overall the interface is quite nice and the graph overview is appealing.

By: kalel

kalel — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 04:36:29 +0000

It would be nice to see this app plug into some existing financial applications like Cha-Ching so that the invoicing can play nice with these for a complete solution.

By: db

db — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:48:26 +0000

The feature it needs? That’s easy. Add multi-level, GTD type project/task planning. What comes first? Planning then tracking. I don’t know why none of the time tracker don’t get it. Do both; they are intrinsically linked. And if you did, and added links for contacts, documents, notes etc., you have what many Mac users are looking for. It could be used for personal, school and business use.

Good luck.