7 replies to this topic

[Neil Allen]

I'm curious about what anyone/everyone is using to track time, tasks, and materials for cartographic jobs. Here, we have an old antiquated DOS-based program that is not doing it for us anymore. We'd like to spend as little time devising/hunting for a new system. There must be some canned program(s) out there that are working for you. What are they?

[Nick Springer]

I'm curious about what anyone/everyone is using to track time, tasks, and materials for cartographic jobs. Here, we have an old antiquated DOS-based program that is not doing it for us anymore. We'd like to spend as little time devising/hunting for a new system. There must be some canned program(s) out there that are working for you. What are they?

I use FreshBooks for time tracking, invoicing, expenses, and sometimes estimates. I have been very happy with the service!

The best part are automatic payment reminders to clients after 30 days!

[Jimbo]

I'm curious about what anyone/everyone is using to track time, tasks, and materials for cartographic jobs. Here, we have an old antiquated DOS-based program that is not doing it for us anymore. We'd like to spend as little time devising/hunting for a new system. There must be some canned program(s) out there that are working for you. What are they?

Openproj & within Adobe Life Cycle there is a timesheet that you can use. Creating an excel spread sheet works too.

[CHART]

Neil,

I use a little piece of software called TraxTime

http://www.spudcity....me/traxtime.htm

[JwB]

I was doing some research on Adobe products yesterday and went down a rabbit trail into the Flex and AIR worlds. I came across some Flex demo apps. One on Time Accounting caught my eye as I too have been challenged in this area.

There's a nice little, free desktop app (widget) called TimeLoc created by rad3 found at this site http://www.rad3.com/...oc/default.html

I'm not experienced with AIR built apps so I was apprehensive about security/privacy on the install but I took the risk.

This seems exactly what I was looking for - a simple punch-in/punch-out clock with some reporting. You can also export data to CSV. After one day, I like it. Now of course there's the discipline to use it!

BTW: Here's the Flex showcase site. http://flex.org/showcase/
I liked the BreakingNewsMap app and the MapMyPix app (now called TripPix at UniversalMind website - their GIS stuff is impressive.) There are a number of map/gis related applications in the showcase. Sorry if this leads any of you on rabbit trails and bad time management! If you're an ArcServer developer, bill it to Flex research.

John (first time post for me)

[BioGeoMan]

Clicktime: http://www.clicktime.com/ works very well.

[DonnaG]

I'm curious about what anyone/everyone is using to track time, tasks, and materials for cartographic jobs. Here, we have an old antiquated DOS-based program that is not doing it for us anymore. We'd like to spend as little time devising/hunting for a new system. There must be some canned program(s) out there that are working for you. What are they?

Hi Neil,

QuickBooks has an option for time tracking.
There is also a product called TimeSlice http://timeslice.us/ [full disclosure: my sister is one of the programmers]

You might want to make sure the time tracking data goes into your billing system easily.

Donna Genzmer

[Melissa Evans]

Give Talygen a try. You will like it. Easy to operate, consists of different user modules and reporting is in best format.