Sounds like your a gov't contractor...

Sorry, but the only help I can give you is to try ical...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael R. Jinks [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 3:32 AM
> To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject:      time tracking
> 
> Time tracking.
> 
> I have never been able to do it.  I really, really need to start, like,
> last week.
> 
> I'm hoping that technology can solve my problems, but so far google has
> given
> me no cause for hope.
> 
> What I'd like is a time tracking tool that will take as little of my own
> time
> and effort as possible to use.  Something with a user interface about as
> complicated as a chess clock is what I'm after.
> 
> I switch between tasks constantly; most of them involve the %$#@& Linux
> box
> one way or another; so it _should_ be simple for me to just keep a log
> open
> and take good notes.  One would think.
> 
> But somehow it just never happens.  So I'm hoping that if I can find/make 
> something that's _really_ easy to use, and which I can just leave stuck to
> 
> my desktop, to stare at as neurotically as I stare at my CPU monitors, and
> to thump whenever I switch desktops... maybe I'd actually use the thing.
> 
> If I were to write this thing myself, I'd probably make something like a
> GNOME- or Windowmaker-style docked app; something tiny that could
> optionally
> pop up a larger interface for when you actually want to pay attention to
> it
> (config time, defining new tasks, viewing logs and stats, etc.) but for
> which
> the normal mode of operation would be to mouse over, enter a keyboard code
> or quick mouse sequence selecting the task to switch to, mouse away, and
> we're off to the next thing.
> 
> That would be ideal, I think.  Close to that is great.
> 
> Keen extra feature would be the ability to write notes or store arbitrary
> data
> and have that keyed to a moment in time.  Shouldn't be too tough to tack
> that
> sort of functionality on to a system that already sits and watches the
> clock
> for you.
> 
> Anyhow.  Open to any kind of suggestions, and if this is an unmet need
> maybe
> it's time I quit grousing and wrote some code.
> 
> -- 
> Michael Jinks, IB
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