What Are You Working On?
Stone Hill Time Card is the epitome of application design. It’s a flawless time tracker.
I found Time Card yesterday in a fit of frustration with TimeEdition, a useful little app and my previous favorite. Time Card has every single feature (save one) I need and none that I don’t. The premise is simple: answer the question “what are you working on?” as plain text at the top of the window. Previous chunks of time flow in a chronological list (like Twitter) below. Observe the magic syntax “task for project” and it knows to segregate the results by project. Begin typing and previous results auto-populate.
Leave notes with more specific tasks in the hidden but easily accessible notes field. ((Would be great if I could close the notes tab with Command+Enter.)) Any mistakes or oversights are easily corrected via the editing feature. Command-tab between applications and you’ll notice a badge indicating time spent on the current task. It’s thoughtful features like these that I love.
At the end of the day, you can review your time distribution with the slide out pie chart panel or the long term totals view. If there was a way to export data or save a report, this would be the most perfect application I have ever had the privilege of using.
I’m so head-over-heels for Time Card I can hardly contain my excitement. Every interaction is skillfully tailored to my exact needs. I feel giddy using it. Please check out Time Card. It’s absurdly good.
Devan Goldstein
Finally got around to trying out SHTC. There’s a lot to like, but the one dealbreaker for me might be the lack of ability to specify separate projects for the same client. I wish the “magic ‘task for project’ syntax,” as you call it—the help file suggests it’s actually intended as “task for client”—were “task on project for client” or something like that.
There are obvious ways around this, like creating and using your own syntax (e.g. “task for project—client,” “project: task for client”), but without the data structure to back it up, I’m not all that interested, and will likely stick with the admittedly more cumbersome TimeEdition.
Devan Goldstein
Alright, stuck with it for another day, and here’s some more.
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