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Please build this – Simple task and time tracking

by P

I’ve been looking for solutions to two problems that must be quite common for people working in virtual teams

Managing sprawling lists of todos across many projects
Keeping track of where all my time goes to make sure I’m spending it on things that are important

You’d think there must be a plethora of great simple tools that make this easier. I’ve looked (and have been looking) but the tools are either too complex (insert name of any task management app of your choice) or too simple (teuxdeux).

Please someone build this. I’ll beta-test and help spread the word. Here is the minimum Viable Product

A task has the following fields

Short description (this covers name, title, etc.)
Time to complete (how long I think it will take, or how long it ended up taking me)
Completed (checkbox to show what’s done and what still needs doing)
Tags (for everything else: grouping by project, types of tasks, priority, deadlines, etc.)

Only one view -> Dashboard (toggle Current / History)

Toggle between

All the tasks that are not complete yet
All the tasks that have been completed

I can order/filter them by any of the above fields
I can add/edit/delete tasks

Cross-platform

I’d prefer to run it as a desktop application, but web-app would also be fine
And there is no way around mobile support, so at some point it’ll need an IOS and Android version (good way to make money and keep the desktop/web-app free)

Published: October 19, 2011

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http://bubbletimer.com Andrew

Philipp,

You didn’t specify anything for the time tracking app, but I would recommend you check out an app that we at SnootyMonkey have put together: bubbletimer.com
Philipp

@Andrew – thanks for the link. I checked it out and really like it. Only caveat is that it feels wrong to record all my daily meetings (with different people) as one category. It’s helpful to see that I spent (too) much time in meetings, but I would like to keep track of which meetings I went to. I’ll try it out and see if it’s a matter of rethinking how I track my activities – or if BubbleTimer isn’t the right tool for me. But in terms of simple time tracking – it’s the nicest one I’ve seen so far.
http://BubbleTimer Sean Johnson

Philipp,

One thing you can try with BubbleTimer is to use the notes feature to put in what meetings you went to. There is a sticky pad note at the end (right side) of every activity near the time total for that activity. Just click it and you have a free form spot for notes. Later, if you look at the print summary of how you spent your time each day, those notes are shown. So you’ll be able to see where your meeting time went.

Cheers,
Sean
http://www.clockmeister.com/ Clockmeister

Been looking for an App like this as well, will definitely give bubble timer a try
Sean Owens

Hi have you tried http://www.taskbiller.com once a client requests a task you insert it assign it to a sub contractor or yourself and attach it to a customer, put a planned time to it or an agreed price. Then if you need more information you use taskbiller to communicate with the customer. At the end of the month you run up the customers bill and all the line items are there and the prices agreed or timespent is listed, your sub contractor can bill you from the system too so no more excel shhets ans trying to reconcile bills at the end of the month.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Time-management-Community/554894041201119 Vincent Churchil

For time tracking we use Replicon timekeeping software and we are fine with it for now. But I am always open for new and innovative tools. Thanks for sharing and I will check this out.

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