I wrote a project timer awhile ago. After I had done that (in Flash 8) I needed a task list that could be split up by client and project, so I combined the old time and a new task list into what I called creatively the Project Tracker. I’ve been using it since Apollo preview release. I just added a new feature for myself that rounds the times to the nearest half-hour or hour if desired (since that’s how my company bills clients), and I thought that I’d share it. It allows you to keep track of time spent on tasks, project, and clients as well as let’s you check off any of them when complete. You can also store notes about each of them.
It doesn’t use any AIR specific features, just SharedObject, but I sure like to have it as a desktop application rather than in the browser. I always close browser versions on accident.
This application is provided as-is with no documentation, support, or guarantee of anything. Hope you find it useful. You can view Project Tracker in your web browser before you download it.
Update: Republished for the AIR 1.0 release and updated badge install.
Update 2: Found and fixed the problem reported in comments. Using a relative path in the badge installer for AIR apps results in some of the errors reported.
January 12th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
from which beta version is it? i ahve beta 3 installed on a mac and i get an error trying to install it..
January 13th, 2008 at 2:22 am
Hey, wait a sec. I remember this app!
I was actually browsing RSS feeds and saw this title’s summary and I thought someone was ripping off your work. Nice job!
January 13th, 2008 at 3:03 am
am: It’s beta 3. What is the error you are getting?
Cahlan: Yeah, I’ve added a whole feature to it and of course published it for more recent versions of AIR.
January 13th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
Hi Jacob …
i got this error and i ‘ve got air beta 3 :
The application could not be installed. Try installing it again. If the problem persists, contact the application author.
January 15th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
What can I say, it’s beta. Try downloading AIR manually and the Application separately.
Please click on each link in the order above to complete the installation process.
February 17th, 2008 at 5:14 am
Had the same issue , let me try to install the above
March 4th, 2008 at 12:49 am
This program would be wonderful. someone please get this to work. I get this:
This application requires a version of Adobe AIR which is no longer supported. Please contact the application author for an updated version.
What I’d really love is this or the “smaller” version on my blackberry. I spend alot of time talking and in inpromptu meetings with designers and developers…I’ve been looking for something, a stopwatch with memory…something, anything to log this time better….
March 10th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
UPDATE: This has now been updated for the full AIR 1.0 release. Hopefully any bugs are worked out with the badge install. I tested it and it is working fine. Let me know if there are any issues.
Jac
March 14th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Where is the data stored? How can I extract a datafile for reporting?
March 15th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
The data is stored in a SharedObject file. It actually isn’t extractable. It would probably be quite useful huh? I’ll have to add an export feature for that in a later build.
June 19th, 2008 at 7:03 am
Nice tool, simple & easy to use… don’t make the common mistake by adding tons of unnecessary features. ;)
However, an export feature could come in handy. And the most important feature of them all, is changing the dock icon (on Win, but especially OSX) to show the status. Play/pause icon, or change the color of the icon, that would be enough to know whether or not it’s tracking time.
June 19th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
logicalunit, good ideas. I’ll have to make some time to do that! What sort of format would you expect from the export feature? CSV file?
July 17th, 2008 at 2:54 am
Hi Jac,
Nice app. I wonder how did you create the date component?
I like the fact that it allows user to manually key in dates (usefull if the dates are wayyyyy back to the past).
Mind to share some tips :)
Great Work.