Comments on: SimpleTimer 2 released

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Bildschirmsport » Blog Archive » Reorganisation — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:13:55 +0000

[...] meiner großen Freude hat Lars in der Zwischenzeit seinen SimpleTimer in der neuen Version veröffentlicht. Ich habe damals schon die erste Version kurzzeitig genutzt, bin dann aber doch [...]

By: Boris

Boris — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 08:33:19 +0000

Man, this one is a really cool app – Looks damned good and it’s something we needed inhouse since our time-management-tool was developped in the early 1800ies !

By: lars

lars — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 08:24:18 +0000

You can actually insert new times manually in the calendar. Just do a rightclick as mentioned in the description ;)

I’ll check the bugs…

By: Krystian Majewski

Krystian Majewski — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:26:18 +0000

Oop, my calender looks weird, I suddenly get 2 additional scrollbars in a day column. It looks like a bug. I guess it is because I was working on something past midnight: screenshot

By: Krystian Majewski

Krystian Majewski — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:18:35 +0000

Yeah, I start getting used to “Describe what you did”. Still a bit strange. Sometimes I want to take a short break and it forces me to summarize the work I’m not finished with yet.

Oh yeah and I totally missed that you CAN input the data directly in the calendar if you lost it. Awesome! However, I would advise you to remove the “cancel” button in the “Describe what you did” dialoge. It is a recipe for catastrophe. And if you think about it: it should actually keep the timer running instead of stopping it and deleting the data. After all, you can always delete the data manually in the Calender, right? That’s always easier then rebuilding data you’ve lost.

And here is another for the Whishlist: I would like to be able to re-arrange the order of the tasks so I can arrange then according to priority for example.

Also, it is quite WIDE. I liked how the first SimpleTimer was quite compact. It seems like the menu at the top + logo take up a lot of horizontal space. Maybe switch them for more compact versions when the user resizes the window so that the space runs out? Or add a “compact mode” button? The (stylish!) Clock is fine but I don’t really need to be reminded that this is “SimpleTimer2″ when I use this tool every day.

Anyways, thanks again, you made work fun again ^_^

By: Mr.doob

Mr.doob — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 23:25:38 +0000

Yeah, I’ve also seen that thing, as soon as you modify a task it gets reseted :(

The “Describe what you did?” question is for the calendar. You may work on one task on different times. If you complete it just say you just done it ;) It works very well like this imho.

By: Krystian Majewski

Krystian Majewski — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:52:47 +0000

I just got it!

The first impression. Very cool Features. I like how a project can be split down into tasks.

One bug: I’ve been working on a 1h task project for 40 minutes. Wanted to correct the planned time upwards and the task counter is back to 0%. Well this sucks because I can’t input the data manually once it’s gone.

Is it because I didn’t answer the “Describe what you did” Question? What is that good for anyway? If I defined a task it already says what I did.