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Time Tracking With Hindsight
May 20th, 2007A program someone should write. I’ll start a timeslip, start programming, and then get a phone call. If the phone call is quick, then I go back to programming and forget about it. If the phone call takes a long time, then I’m probably providing technical support. When I hang up, I’d like to create two time slips, working backwards. I want to start with the stop. It’s the difference between, “What are you going to do?”, and “Tell me what you’ve been doing.”
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I like it. Sort of like the way DVR’s save a certain amount of show to the buffer even though you haven’t clicked ‘record’ yet, in case you eventually decide you want to record the whole show.
Actually, it would be nice to have something build into your OS that recoreded the applications you touched in the last hour. Not real spyware that you’d have to worry about, but a list of the windows that you viewed, and their tites when they changed.
That way, after 45 minutes, the program could say, hey, you want to bill someone for this? And then you could think, oh, yeah, right. And then see that you opened X Code 23 minutes ago, and start your time slip for programming, or you opened Word 38 minutes ago, and start your time slip for grant writing.