Wednesday, March 7th, 2007
Toggl: Ajax based timetracker tool
Category: Rails
, Ruby, Showcase
Alari Aho has created Toggl, an Ajax based timetracker tool written in Ruby on Rails that uses several Ajax tehniques, including pre-fetch and
asynchronous postings.
3.5 rating from 31 votes
Not bad. http://www.taskfreak.com is also an excellent taskmanager, and you can install it on your own server.
yeah. but web 2.0 is all about hosted rails apps that you have to pay $9.95 a month to use. it grew out of the whole ‘mediocre $35 mac shareware’ cowpatch
The company that made it is just by my office here in Estonia.
Also TimeTracker is a good time tracking tool to keep track of the time you spend on any task.
I am using toggl for quite a while now. I was looking and test driving all the tools at the Office 2.0 Database, including some tools that also offer time tracking such as Cashboard, Bascamp, etc.
However, this was the best tool for me: small, easy to use, and exactly what I needed to do my SAP reporting at the end of the month. We don’t track time spent on different Work Packages or specific tasks, this is a little bit too granular for us. I also needed something with a simple punch-in/punch-out mechanism, while still being able to give a clue what I did in that time if I really needed to. Toggl was exactly that.
On my Flickr page you can see a screenshot, with our SAP numbers for Admin, Business Development, Research, and two projects.
Because I do forget sometimes to punch in or out, the smart time editing by simply clicking on the time is nice, such as 1.5 h (=01:30), or 75 m (=01:15)… This is small and sweet, with very little clicks, and the export is great.
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Thorsten
Toggl is a great tool for sure, but don’t forget about TSheets.com and our personal and professional time tracking application. We’re also running on Ajax, and have recently integrated with Jott.com. Keep your eyes peeled for our soon to be released iPhone app! Come have a visit at:
http://www.tsheets.com