Tidalsand

So just what is this new exciting project everyone’s talking about (everyone here at least)? Well, it’s an application for recording how much time you spend doing stuff. Whoop. Fireworks… Dancing…

We know, there are lots of these around already, but all the ones we’ve tried have been found wanting; they’ve been found wanting enough to push us into writing one that works for us, and which we hope will work for others.

We’re putting together a road map – all of us putting in our best ideas on how time-tracking should work and what it should do. We’ve done a few time-tracking applications in our previous lives so we arrogantly think we know what we’re talking about.

We know the general view is that time-tracking software is just one, big, yawn. Well, you’re right – there’s absolutely nothing sexy about a good timesheet, but there is something key to time-tracking applications: it’s one of those applications that just has to work flawlessly and intuitively – it’s used by a huge range of people (pretty much everyone in the company) and usually isn’t something any one of them wants to do. Clearly, folks would rather just get their work done and tracking time usually is one of those “late Friday-afternoon really want to go home – aghh forgot to do my timesheet” moments. We’re not kidding ourselves into thinking we’re going to make time tracking fun, exactly, but we do want to make it painless for all concerned.

When we’re done with the road map we’ll post it here as our ‘line in the sand’.