SimpleTimer 2
A small and easy to use time tracking application build on Adobe AIR.
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(Timerview with running timer)
(Calenderview)
Usage instructions & care tips:
(This program is freeware and may contain bugs. I take no responsibility, if SimpleTimer2 damages your system, but I’m pretty sure it won’t ;))
Timer: Right click on empty space, project or task to add, modify or delete a new entry. To start the timer, just click on a task. If you switch to another task or click on the same task, the current running timer is stopped. You can add a description of what you just did for this entry. If you click on cancel the entry is not saved. The timeformat you see on the right hand site is: DD:HH:MM:SS, whereas a day is a workday (8 hours).
If the application is minimized, you can start and stop the timer via a rightclick on the systemtray icon.
Calender: Drag or resize an entry by clicking it on the top or bottom. To delete an entry click on it an press DELETE. To add an entry (in case you forgot to track something) just do a rightclick on the location where you want to add that entry.
Settings: You can configure basic settings like the date- and timeformat, autostart and idle timeout here.
Export: Export a whole project or a single task in a project by selecting it and defining the daterange for the export. Hit export and choose the location and filename.
Help: Here you find current version infos and you can manually check for program updates.
Statistics: Analyze your project and tasks with statistic diagrams.
59 Comments
1. nulldesign - personal por&hellip | 22. October 2008 at 12:39
[...] my new time tracking application. You can find the download, description and everyting else under Projects -> SimpleTimer 2. The version count is 1.0.1. I hope it’s nearly bugfree, since I’m using it for quite a [...]
2. Mr.doob | 22. October 2008 at 13:32
Looks great! I’m gonna try it just now, just one thing. It’s “calendar” and not “calender” :P
3. Mr.doob | 22. October 2008 at 14:04
*Feature request*
Drag and drop Project/Tasks for easy sorting :P
4. Mr.doob | 22. October 2008 at 16:14
This is great! I’m being super productive today! :D
Here it’s another one :P
*Feature request*
Mark task as completed (fade it down or something)
5. Mr.doob | 22. October 2008 at 22:45
It works nicely under Ubuntu too. Although the window shadow doesn’t work. You know, AIR Beta.
6. TK | 23. October 2008 at 01:35
I second Mr. Doob’s request, a “done” checkbox would be awesome, plus maybe a way of filtering what is done and what isn’t, as per Todoist. Todoist has a history and once you check something as being done, it gets a slash through it and moved to history. I love SimpleTimer, but I can’t see what I’ve got done :P
7. Morris | 23. October 2008 at 10:14
01:01:50:57 = ~8,50 Hours …. Why????? I don’t understand!!!!! Please insert in settings tabs a property for switch time format. Example 01:01:50:57 To 08:50:57 Hours , 02:01:50:57 To 16:50:57 Hours ecc. ecc.
Thank’s
8. guinetik | 27. October 2008 at 17:25
Hello there,
i’m using simple timer for personal projects for a while and when i show it to my friends, all of them asked for a portuguese version (since i’m in brazil). so if you ever need someone to translate the program to brazilian portuguese, i can help.
other thing, when i generate a .xls report of a project, it comes with encoding errors, once brazilian language has latin characters.
well, that’s all. the program is very good
9. Bob | 29. October 2008 at 02:58
Is there any way to mark a project off as ‘complete’ ?
10. Seb | 29. October 2008 at 10:43
Looks great! But it seems to eat up a lot of my CPU in an erratic up/down/up/down usage characteristic (dual core Intel).
11. lars | 29. October 2008 at 11:38
In the next update there will be a checkbox to mark projects as complete.
12. Mr.doob | 29. October 2008 at 21:01
Great! Here it’s another suggestion:
- Import -
Next week I’ll be working in Germany so I’ll have to bring my laptop. How could I move the data from the SimpleTimer in this computer to the Laptop? Maybe a Import function that can load what it gets Exported?
13. lars | 30. October 2008 at 10:51
Hey Mr. Doob, that’s actually a nice idea, I’ll think about writing a importer. For now you can copy the whole database to another computer manually. It’s located somewhere in your user directory (on Vista: C:\Users\[USER_NAME]\AppData\Roaming\de.nulldesign.SimpleTimer2.\Local Store\simpletimer.db).
14. Mr.doob | 30. October 2008 at 14:52
Cool! That will do by now :D Thx!
15. Alex | 14. November 2008 at 13:04
Hey Lars.
Very nice program. It combines functionality with clean and simple design.
One – for me very important – feature request: The window position should be checked at startup. I often switch between my laptop display and my 21″ tft at home. I place the program window in the lower right corner. Switching form the high resolution to the lower resolution results in a window not accessible because it is outside the visible part of the screen. A check if the window x and y position is higher than the actual resolution should avoid this situation.
Thanks a lot for the great tool.
Best regards
Alex
16. Kelvin Luck | 20. November 2008 at 20:58
Hey :)
Thanks for the tool, it’s pretty useful… One thing I’ve noticed though is that the AIR 1.5 update seems to have broken it a bit… If I minimise the timer then I can’t bring it back from the task bar (WinXP),
Cheers,
Kelvin :)
17. Krystian Majewski | 20. November 2008 at 22:40
Argh. After the today’s update (20.Nov 2008) it’s broken! Whenr I minimize the window, it doesn’t re-appear again. Might have to do with Resoultion – I use two monitors.
I NEED to minimize it because I noticed that it is QUITE heavy on the resources. My CPU is maxed out every time the window is open and a project is running. It’s ok when paused. Something in there wasn’t solved very efficiently. :-(
18. Krystian Majewski | 20. November 2008 at 22:42
Ok, correction: the CPU maxes out when the project is over 100%. I think the glowing Font sucks up too much resources.
19. Krystian Majewski | 20. November 2008 at 22:45
Ha, wait it’s even stranger – the CPU load is different for each of my two monitors. The first one is as described but I get full CPU load on my second monitor even if the project is below 100%.
20. Philipp | 24. November 2008 at 12:41
Hi Lars.
First of all, great app you did there …
one thing i noticed while using simpletimer: when a task is running and you shutdown your computer, the time isn’t saved. so after rebooting the system the task is empty. can you check if a task is running when quitting simpletimer?
cheers,
philipp
21. lars | 03. December 2008 at 17:07
It seems like AIR doesn’t get the operating system termination event and can’t detect if the system is shutting down. When you quit simpletimer manually it works…
22. mister Superb » Blo&hellip | 11. January 2009 at 03:08
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23. Aron | 19. February 2009 at 17:58
Hi Lars, great tool, love to use it…
However, for me the app uses to much resources when its on screen. Maybe here is some room for optimization.
Also, the editing of the work blocks inside the calender view seams a little tricky to me. When I try to edit the length of a work block, I don’t get a proper visual feedback, if I’m outside the block, inside the textfield or in the edit-size-mode (especially when the block is only 10min “long”).
Still cool program, I look forward for updates.
24. bali33 | 24. February 2009 at 19:03
Hi,
Great application and thanks for share !
I don’t understand why a new entry is created on the calendar its duration is add to the linked task ?! It’s strange. I don’t know if I’m clear. Imagine, I create a new task in the timer section, it’s duration is one hour. I switch on the calendar section and I create a new entry for this task. Automatically the new entry duration is one hour. If I go back to the timer section the elapsed time of the task keep grow up and one hour was added automatically.
25. lars | 25. February 2009 at 10:15
@Bali33: The calenderview just displayes the times you’ve spent on a task you tracked in the timerview. In general you don’t need to do anything in the calenderview, except you forgot to track something.
@Aron: True, the small entries and the visual editing is a bit annoying. I will change this in the next version.
26. nulldesign – person&hellip | 18. June 2009 at 23:26
[...] found some time to give my timer a small graphical rebrush. The application icon and the logo itself has been updated. Now it looks [...]
27. Og2t | 23. June 2009 at 13:55
Will give it a go today. Really need a simple task time meter and this one seems ideal :)
28. Taufiq Hasan | 29. June 2009 at 22:11
nice apps, i’ve add it in my list. thank you.
29. zszen | 06. July 2009 at 06:35
I can’t write uft-code….
30. eart | 10. July 2009 at 01:10
How to remove task from calendar?
31. lars | 10. July 2009 at 12:51
Just click on it and hit delete ;)
32. Guy | 10. July 2009 at 21:51
This is such a time saver and a great program on your part Lars.
The one thing i will suggest because i have been comparing programs to see which is more suitable for me and what type of work i am doing,
what i suggest is (there is an example of this on another air program) but some type of logged timesheet output from the program itself.
this would then perfect what you have created and would aide in printing of them instead of exporting to excel and that sort of thing.
thanks Lars if you have time to implement this if not many thanks for the program.
33. kk | 15. July 2009 at 05:09
Hi, I love this app, simple and effective. However, it seems to be blocking output to the flashlog.txt. Any idea how to solve that? Thanks.
34. lars | 15. July 2009 at 09:51
@kk: It’s a known bug and already in the Adobe bugbase, but it hasn’t been fixed yet: https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-2163
@Guy: I will think of it ;)
35. kk | 16. July 2009 at 04:07
thanks for the heads-up
36. Flashmeditation | 15. August 2009 at 13:33
Hi
SimpleTimer is great and really simple!
I live in a country that weekstart is Saturday, would you please add Saturday as a weekstart too.
Thanks
37. wili | 25. August 2009 at 08:23
Thanks for the great application! Here are couple of suggestions for future versions, based on everyday use:
If I could set path to the database, I could save it to the Dropbox. Then it will be automatically synced between computers.
After tracking application prompts description of what was done. Problem is when application automatically ends tracking and I have dragged application out from the screen (never learnt to minimize). So now I can’t move window at all. Would it be possible to keep the header always draggable?
It would be also nice if I could change window not to float on the top.
But anyways, thanks!
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39. Benjamin Reid | 26. August 2009 at 16:16
Pure brilliance, now when I get asked how long a project took I can reply! :D
40. Nat | 26. August 2009 at 18:06
Hallo Lars,
das Programm ist echt super! Hier noch ein paar Wünsche:
Aufgaben erstellen/editieren: Geplante Zeiten entweder in 5-Minuten-Schritten oder freie Minutenangabe
Timer-Ansicht: MouseOver abgelaufene Zeit -> Tooltip mit der geplanten Zeit (gerade deshalb wichtig, da Prozentbalken sich nur nach Wechsel der Ansicht aktualisiert). Wenn man sich die geplante Zeit einblendet ist es leicht unübersichtlich – daher macht die Fortschrittsanzeige + geplante Zeit Tooltip viel Sinn.
Für den ein oder anderen sind evtl. Notizen zu den Aufgaben wichtig.
Das war’s erstmal,
viele Grüße aus Essen!
41. Dave Beach | 26. August 2009 at 19:10
Wonderful application. I’ve definitely left my other time tracking software behind. However, is there a way to make it not always on top?
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46. bongra | 24. September 2009 at 08:52
Great App, do you plan any new updates?
47. Bruno | 28. September 2009 at 10:47
Hi,
Fun and very simple tu use…
But the same think with Ical synchronisation…
Thanks
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51. dan | 28. October 2009 at 19:33
hi! very cool and interesting
in future version
is it possible to use calenderview also as an agenda of how to-do-list without add minuts to new track where i haven’t spent any time because it i will do it in the future… my english is to well.
for example:
track1 for today and i planned 3 hours. but i decide to divede it in 2 part. 1,5 hours today and 1.5 hours tomorrow and I want to put it in calendarviwe as agenda to remember to do it. After 1,5 hours I spent only it in timeviewer. then if I see calendarviewer tomorrow, i remember to do it and if i can i will complete the track. if not, no hours added.
i hope you understand.
52. BJH3 | 10. November 2009 at 17:10
Lars – Very elegant app; I’ll be trying it out this week for consulting projects.
One question: I’d like to use this to track everything, but most of my “projects” are actually clients that add tasks to my list from time-to-time. Is there a way to add a project that without specifying a due date?
Thanks.
53. lars | 16. November 2009 at 11:20
Just specify a due date in the distant future, now you have your epic task. I can make the due date optional in the next version ;)
54. bali33 | 23. November 2009 at 10:50
Great job !
This application is very cool and helpful but for me it misses some features to really use it in my professional work.
Possibility to add description, comment for project and tasks.
The calendar must reflect task, so when you create a task, it should be added it in the calendar. An item tasks in the calendar must represent when the task is planned and how much time is planned to work on it and how many time worked on it is already spent.
My two cents,
Thanks
55. Hooray! | 24. November 2009 at 18:26
Great job!
I second the request for drag-and-drop sorting of projects and tasks.
56. kuborgh | 20. December 2009 at 13:21
just a note: the indicator-circle (when a timer is running) doesn’t seem to move if the timer-windows has no focus. is it maybe possible to animate the dock-icon itself when timer is running? (all on Mac)
57. Al | 25. December 2009 at 04:47
Very good design! The best out of what I’ve seen so far (over 20 programs).
Please, please add the following:
1) an autohide feature as in “Complete Time Tracking” software – when you move the program window to the edge of the screen it sticks to the edge, and, after a while, if you remove the focus, it slides off the screen (or hides immediately, depending on the option) with a little bit sticking out; when you move your mouse to that portion, the program slides back (or appears immediately, depending on options)
2) and add an ability to start a different task using a single click instead of double click.
This way, you will minimize the time spent on recording time. This is so essential but only one software company did it . “Complete time tracking” software allows to change a task in 2 clicks. If the above-mentioned features are implemented, your software will be able to track time in just 1 click!
Thank you.
58. kuborgh | 06. January 2010 at 09:30
another one: in timer tab, the percentage doesn’t seen to refresh after adding Projects or tasks. Restart needed. (Mac)
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