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I have a few comments on this because I feel this is actually very useful to me. I'm working for myself right now, doing some projects I wanted to do a long tim
by iaskwhy 16y ago
I have a few comments on this because I feel this is actually very useful to me. I'm working for myself right now, doing some projects I wanted to do a long time ago but I'm also consulting on the side. This consulting thing is really tricky because I'm some sort of firefighter, I just keep working on my stuff until the phone rings and there I go in emergency mode. Thing is, at the end of the week I kind of lost track of whatever I did on that week! So I know I went to the office to take care of some problems thus the phone ringing but besides that what the hell have I actually done? Most of the time I have the feeling I didn't do anything besides that even if I only worked there for one or two days.
Enter OhLife. I'm addicted to it because every single day it reminds me to write some words about what have I done that day. Instead of keeping it as a personal emotional diary I just use it as a work log replying with minimal answers like "consulting" or "project x" but in the end I have no real stats about it, just a work log (which is fine, it was never a problem).
Now you built DoneCal and when I saw the video I was surprised, you actually thought about a better way to do this type of simples logs but with stats. Care to explain why you did it in the first place? Did you have this or any other problem?
As you can pretty much guess by now, I think it would be awesome for DoneCal to remind me of what have I done at the end of the day, just like OhLife does. I understand it might be annoying for most people so either you make it and promote it as the way it works or you add a new option or you just don't mess with it at all.
That's my use case. As for the app itself, it's very nice, good work!
- amitvjtimub 16y agoShameless plug. I use my own app http://shodhel.com/ http://shodhel.com/ Here I just type "log.did some work" in search box. And it adds "did some work" to log You might want to try it.
- edanm 16y agoHave you ever considered using a time-logging application before? Quite a few exist. Some consultants use them to keep track of how many hours they spend working on each project, so they can bill properly. I'm working on my own productivity tool based on the Pomodoro Technique. If you don't know it, the technique talks about working in stretches of 25 minutes, and recording everything you work on so you can have nice "logs" at the end of the week detailing how much work you got done per day, etc. We're building a webapp that makes working with the technique easier. I'd be very interested in your opinion on whether this might be something you're interested in, and also on what features might make you use it. For example, we're definitely considering doing an OhLife style email every day, both telling you how much work you did that day, and letting you email new tasks to get done, etc. Anyway, if you can talk with me and answer some questions, I'd me much obliged. Feel free to reply or to email me: edan@yenhq.com.
- peterbe 16y agoThat's what DoneCal is trying to solve with the Bookmarklet. Did you check out the video on that? http://donecal.com/help/#bookmarklet http://donecal.com/help/#bookmarklet I'm not familiar with OhLife but a feature I've been considering for DoneCal is an email that is sent out at (configurable) the end of the work day that says something like: "What did you do today? Click one of the shortcut links to type in the box below"