Comments on: Sneak peek at our new timer

By: Gavin

Gavin — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:20:21 +0000

Any chance you could make this a widget instead?

I find it much easier to manage my applications, I'm not very keen on mini browser windows?

Either way looks like it will be handy indeed!

By: Vitaly Kushner

Vitaly Kushner — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 07:13:18 +0000

Two things:
a) when will it be available? This is the only thing keeping us from switching to freckle.
b) It looks like there is no way to actually see the current timer value. This is a bad. Sometimes you have an external limit on some task, something like “ok, you can do X but don’t spend more then 45 min. on it”. Our current time tracker also lacks this display and so I always find myself stopping the timer just to look at how much time it counted so far.

By: Matamat

Matamat — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:59:47 +0000

Good ! But it will be better if you add a “Create new project” button directly in the timer window.

By: Marcos Wright Kuhns

Marcos Wright Kuhns — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:11:22 +0000

The Timer tool is invaluable to our team & we wouldn’t have started using Freckle without it. On the whole it’s amazingly executed (keyboard shortcuts rock!) The only bug we’ve found, though, happens to be quite glaring. At the moment when I Log a task, starting the timer again for the same project resumes the timer with the hours I just logged (doesn’t start from zero). This can easily result in double entry of time. Once this bug is fixed I’ll be 100% satisfied w/ your timer.

@cssbit while I don’t think an official downloadable timer is coming anytime soon, you can use tools like Prism: http://labs.mozilla.com/prism/ or Fluid: http://fluidapp.com to get Freckle acting more like it’s own application.

By: cssbit

cssbit — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:03:31 +0000

how i can download this tools ?

By: JJ

JJ — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:11:15 +0000

you must add some screenshots to your site! (and if they’re there, make them more obvious). If I don’t see how your tool “looks” like, I don’t even bother to try it (I have 6 other tabs open with similar tools waiting for me to be checked out)

By: amy

amy — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:07:04 +0000

Hey Geoff, Ryan, time will tell about the spinner. (This one, or another one.)

What we don’t want to do is show too many numbers counting up. For all the reasons that Ryan said, and just the crassness of it all

Thanks for the kind words!

By: Ryan Heath

Ryan Heath — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:29:25 +0000

@Geoffrey: I disagree about the spinner. I think the spinner says “you are currently recording time and should be working right now”. The fact that you do notice it is a good thing in my opinion – it’s presence should be known. And at first I thought, “Well, maybe instead of a spinner it could be a standard incrementing timer”. But I’m not so sure about that now. Timers make me rush to “beat the clock”. And rushing, in this line of work, goes against two things: good practices and making more money

Freckle team: amazing job. Giving that much UI care to something this small says a lot about you guys (and girls).

By: Geoffrey Grosenbach

Geoffrey Grosenbach — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:57:30 +0000

The design seems very well thought through except for the spinner. It would be distracting to have an animated circle running all the time.

But the rest is perfect: keyboard control, simple interface, important information large and at the top!

By: amy

amy — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:12:10 +0000

Chap: woohoo!

Daniel: yes, indeed – the timer will sync with the backend (as noted above, in case of crashing, quitting the browser or switching computers).

We want an iPhone app too!

First things first, though