Love Mac Time Log!! But is the project dead forever?

[jazbek]

I LOVE MacTimeLog. It's the only time tracking program I've ever been able to consistently use, and now, after 6 years of being self employed, I'm finally sure I'm keeping track of all my hours, and I'm actually getting paid more!

There are a couple quirks about it, though, that I'm wondering if there's any hope of fixing. The main one is that if you need to edit anything in the log (which I do about 10 times a day), you have to quit and reload the program. For example, if you type a log entry really fast and hit return, and there was a typo or you had the wrong project selected,, you have to open the log, scroll all the way to the bottom of the log file, fix the mistake, then save, go back to mac time log, quit, and then reopen the program. It'd be awesome if you could edit the log in the app and it'd update the info without a relaunch.

The other thing is it'd be awesome if you could filter on a search word when you're creating the reports. I have a web app that has several different clients. I only have one "project" for the web app, but if I do any support issues for any of the clients, I just put the client's name at the beginning of my log item. This lets me track all the hours I spent on this web app and I don't have to create a separate project for all my clients. But it makes reporting hard.

If you were to pick back up on this project, I'd happily pay for it, and I'd be surprised if other's wouldn't also be willing to pay. Seems like you have quite a few users. :)

[artynusov]

Hi, first of all I'm glad to hear that you find MacTimeLog useful, this kind of feedback always encouraged me to work on MacTimeLog.

I was actually thinking about resurrecting this project recently, there are number of issues under Lion that should be fixed + there are a lot of possible improvements and new features waiting to be implemented :)

Concerning your first feature request - agreed, there is should be a better way of doing it, it was on my todo list.

Filtering in reports - seems quite reasonable.

I don't think that there are a lot of users out there, it's quite a geeky tool, but anyway donations are always welcomed :)

P.S. your message finally convinced me to resurrect MacTimeLog :)

Regards,
Artem

[jazbek]

Thanks for the reply Artem, I'm so glad that you're resurrecting the project. Looking forward to seeing your updates, please let me know when you have a donation button ready. :)

Jessica

[infotexture]

Still use it daily. You might want to consider creating a version for the Mac App Store and charging a small fee to support your efforts.

[artynusov]

Great to hear that you still use it! I thought about it but I prefer it to stay free and it's easier to just add a donation button rather then register as Mac developer and put up with approval process :)

[johandouma]

Same here, love it; I get so annoyed by other tracking tools! I'm pretty sad that it doesn't work on Lion...
An Intel version + notification center support (or new growl) would be awesome to start with! Happy to pay for it too.

[assembler]

saw the screencast and I just love the simplicity of it. can't test it since i'm on mountain lion. would love to use it since other time tracking software is bloated.

[abhishekit]

Hi Artem,

Another upvote for Time log. I just found it yesterday. It is great and the best implementation of tie tracking. I could not find any comparable app in the app store. Did you get around to resurrecting the project?

[DMaiorino]

Hello,

Just to update, I am starting to look at some of the issues. #16 has been pulled and confirmed to be running on mountain lion. If you see any further issues, please report them.

I too like this app, so lets keep it alive and well!

[MichelleCox]

I just had to move from Ubuntu to Mac OSX at work and was so pleased to find a gTimelog equivalent. Thanks so much for doing this! I hope you end up working on it again.