Not bad
The simplicity of the software makes it easy to use; there a few changes that I would make at this point.
1. When you switch to a task in another project, it leave the task in the first project running (not so if you just switch tasks in the same project.) I’m not sure if this is an oversight or an intentional design ‘feature’ but having a parameter like ‘Run concurrent tasks 0|1’ would allow users to select the behavior they desire.
2. When traking time on a specific task, it would be nice to make comments as to what I was specifically doing during that time period. Especially since I have some general administrative tasks, it would be helpful to have some additional information about the time pair specifically (but it doesn’t make sense to break into a new tasks.)
3. The ability to have some team functionality would be great (I understand this greatly complicates the design and mechanics). I would start with the ability to import projects/tasks/timepairs (with some parameters to decide how much detail) to other team members so that recombining data later has standardization. It would then be nice for a manager to be able to import the team members time data (even manually would be fine to start) and then view the complete team picture. Right now, I’m doing this externally into Excel (functional but clunky.) Of course, this could extend quite a bit further but in the interest of staying true to time usage tracking, I think project planning/scheduling is beyond the scope of this app but might be considered for an expansion app.
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