[ignar]

Thanks. I just downloaded a trial and installed. Currently I'm using Time Recorder, but this one looks promising. What I really want to have on my PocketPC though is something like SDSTime on PalmOS. It has simple and intuitive interface on the calendar view, but is pretty strong and solid featurewise.

[ignar]

Thanks. I just downloaded a trial and installed. Currently I'm using Time Recorder, but this one looks promising. What I really want to have on my PocketPC though is something like SDSTime on PalmOS. It has simple and intuitive interface on the calendar view, but is pretty strong and solid featurewise.

[lapchinj]

Originally Posted by SassKwatch

... In general, the 'ease of use' factor would have ranked 7-8 on a 10 point scale.
... I'm a salaried corporate cube farm menial, and don't need those capabilities. I just need to track my time so I can prove to the boss how overworked I am.

I've been using TimeTTracker for about 1/2 a year and I'm pretty happy with it. I'm also salaried by day and do quit a bit of billable coding on the side and it seems to work very well with both life styles. I think that the bottom line is also how well the user interface works for (with) me. With TTT it seems that it takes too much time to get to different functions but nothing that couldn't be optimized a little. I'm quit happy with it but there is nothing that would make me fanatical about never going away from using it like I am about PI. I have not had any time to try BOnTime yet but I hope to in the next few days.

Jeff -

[darrylb]

Originally Posted by SassKwatch

* In general, the 'ease of use' factor would have ranked 7-8 on a 10 point scale.
* I liked that, by default, there was a desktop version of the app so that entries could be made on either the PPC or the desktop.

We are working on a desktop version, but it is still several months away

Originally Posted by SassKwatch

What I didn't like was that, by design, the app assumed it was being used by a consultant who needed to expense out his/her billable time. I'm a salaried corporate cube farm menial, and don't need those capabilities. I just need to track my time so I can prove to the boss how overworked I am.
It seems almost every app I've looked at in this genre makes it hard to avoid having to do at least some 'expense' related data entry because they all assume use by consultant rather than somone who just needs to document time. TimeTTracker was better than others in that respect, but still couldn't avoid some 'expense reporting' altogether if it wasn't relevant to the user's situation.

BOnTime does not include expense management at this stage which should help with this one.

Originally Posted by SassKwatch

Just as a general note unrelated to TimeTTracker and without having yet evaluated BOnTime, I can say that the ease of use factor is *BY FAR* the most important for my needs with an app of this type. I need to spend as little time as possible documenting my 'productive' time rather than spendng 20% of that time documenting activities...making me less productive.

I'd be interested to hear whether you think BOnTime is easy to use. Usability reports have been positive from users so far.

Thanks for your input - we will incorporate this feedback into our product design for the next major release.

[lapchinj]

Originally Posted by ignar

... What I really want to have on my PocketPC though is something like SDSTime on PalmOS.

SDS seems nice but I track time to project/sub project/task so the calendar view wouldn't work so great. I can spend a year or more on a project but only months or weeks on sub project and tasks. I can juggle multiple sub projects and tasks each day and they all have to be tracked especially with this tremendous initiative we have going on toward CMM certification. There's a ton of sub projects and tasks that need to track and document. It would be nice if it would let me track sub projects and/or tasks and not the project itself.

Jeff -

[darrylb]

An update to BOnTime is now available. A version history (including changes in this version) is here. The main points that have been changed include:

• - Ability to change location of data file
  - Interface fixes (date time picker bug)
  - Settings page update
  - Cut and paste jobs between tasks
  - Improved installer