Handful of Nothing

Marco Gomes (boo-box) sent me a message a couple minutes ago about an ingenious time tracking application, that maybe can solve the worst problem about most of the time tracking application : People just forget about using it =)

The concept used by timmyontime is simple and uses something people are always using : their msn or jabber client( google talk).

You add the timmy “user” to your contact list and bam! You can start using it by sending simple controls to it as simple messages ( I can already see a Adium plugin for it):

“create project canola”
“set project canola”
“create task redesign specification” - and you can start your work! When you leave for lunch… just type :
“stop”

Pretty simple huh? Can sound complicated for some, but for most of people I know and work with, not at all =)

So as all the project, it can receive some feedback here goes mine:

1. Privacy / cryptography I know it’s a complicated subject by most of companies need some “privacy” - this should not be a problem for most teams though.
2. If possible, license to run the application on intranet. I know this is kind of stupid, but sometimes we are just not allowed to use great tools because they are services. We would pay a lot of money for some good solutions, but the only “way” they exists are in the services-based world, making impossible for a lot of people to use it.

This are just simple ideas from someone with a couple of projects going on with small team workings that would just love to be able to convince my TI guy to allow this use. But you guys had a great idea and deserve to be able to explore that! Rock on!