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Re: Ding.io

#21

Post by masnick »

dulse wrote: post #19

Just downloaded, it looks great. Great design, really pleasing to use and look at. Lots of small attention to detail that makes it feel nice (eg, calendar picker with large trailing dates into future and past selected month). One note: I'm interested in just using for time tracking for personal productivity, but it feels more like it's built around use cases for consultants / free lancers (eg, client name being requi…

+1 for this. There is not much out there for personal productivity time tracking, especially with good design/UX.

Re: Ding.io

#22

Post by markbao »

masnick wrote: post #21
dulse wrote: post #19

Just downloaded, it looks great. Great design, really pleasing to use and look at. Lots of small attention to detail that makes it feel nice (eg, calendar picker with large trailing dates into future and past selected month). One note: I'm interested in just using for time tracking for personal productivity, but it feels more like it's built around use cases for consultants / free lancers (eg, client name being requi…

+1 for this. There is not much out there for personal productivity time tracking, especially with good design/UX.

+1 on this one as well. I built a shell-based one that pipes out to Google Calendar [0] and then started using Toggl [1]. Toggl works best since it's mobile and web, and they sync with each other, but it's still not totally great from a UI/UX perspective. Timely [2] is beautiful, but doesn't have actual time-of-day data, which I'd like.

Nowadays, I simply plan out my day in my calendar, adjust as necessary, and take that as the data. I don't get to do any crunching of the data like I used to (like graphs and quantitative analysis of where my time is going), but it does serve the purpose of making me aware of what exactly I did during the day.

I'm working on something that will do this quantified-self-esque time tracking built specifically for QS (instead of for freelancers) when I have free time, because this awareness of how I spend my days has quite literally changed my life.

[0] https://github.com/markbao/vestige [1] http://toggl.com [2] http://timelyapp.com

Re: Ding.io

#23

Post by masnick »

GjermundG wrote: post #6

Noticed a lot of activity from this link just now – exciting to see you guys checking out our time tracking tool. We really appreciate feedback from the community, so don't hesitate to comment here if you have feature requests or thoughts on Ding. Gjermund, Co-founder / Designer

Three quick thoughts on some details:

1) Please, PLEASE make sure it's quick/easy to enter time with the keyboard. Right now the main log time interface doesn't let you tab to select the project drop down. I feel like I should be able to tab to this field after the optional comment field. Enter anywhere in the form (except maybe the optional comment) should save the entry and get me ready to enter a new one. For your target audience (devs), I think good keyboard-only support is key.

2) There should be an easy way to see the total time for each day, maybe just next to the date on the Activity page. In any case, I shouldn't have to run a query to see how much I've worked today.

3) Have queries (via the Overview tab) alter the URL so a query can be bookmarked. Ideally this would be with relative dates so I could bookmark https://ding.io/overview?user=1&project=x&client=y&time=this....

This looks really good. Harvest is the de facto for time tracking with good UX, but even their UX could use some refinement (my 3 comments above all apply to Harvest also, I think). You're definitely giving them a run for their money.

BTW, I really like having the client and project in one searchable drop down. Separating these was one of my biggest annoyances with Harvest.

Re: Ding.io

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Post by masnick »

markbao wrote: post #22
masnick wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

+1 for this. There is not much out there for personal productivity time tracking, especially with good design/UX.

+1 on this one as well. I built a shell-based one that pipes out to Google Calendar [0] and then started using Toggl [1]. Toggl works best since it's mobile and web, and they sync with each other, but it's still not totally great from a UI/UX perspective. Timely [2] is beautiful, but doesn't have actual time-of-day data, which I'd like. Nowadays, I simply plan out my day in my calendar, adjust as necessary, and take…

Totally agree re: Toggl (UX issues really bugged me -- time tracking can and should be low friction) and Timely (pretty but flawed interface).

Also totally agree re: quantified-self time tracking and its usefulness.

Re: Ding.io

#27

Post by maxmcd »

The homepage has no JS other than analytics and cloudflare, and css/html is super clean. Quite a nice departure from the typical bootstrap+jquery combo.

Re: Ding.io

#28

Post by ishansharma »

masnick wrote: post #21
dulse wrote: post #19

Just downloaded, it looks great. Great design, really pleasing to use and look at. Lots of small attention to detail that makes it feel nice (eg, calendar picker with large trailing dates into future and past selected month). One note: I'm interested in just using for time tracking for personal productivity, but it feels more like it's built around use cases for consultants / free lancers (eg, client name being requi…

+1 for this. There is not much out there for personal productivity time tracking, especially with good design/UX.

Rescue Time is good. Not sure about UI though!

Re: Ding.io

#29

Post by gdiocarez »

kudos, the site has a clean interface. Though I have no idea how to use the site properly. Is there any tour guide to the side or a simple welcome page on how to use it?
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