It has been a while since I last talked about Thymer (www.thymer.com). Based on the feedback we got from our first users we went back to stealth mode and we've given the interface a major overhaul. It's become a one-page-design where all your time-tracking, planning and scheduling happens on a single page. We've noticed that almost all existing time-tracking software either has a terrible interface or doesn't even match the features of pen-and-paper time-trackers. We think our interface turned out pretty well, and it might suit your taste too.<p>We just entered private beta, so, if you have a few minutes, try it out (key for HN users: NOPROCRAST). Needless to say, we want to know what you think. Don't hold back :)<p>www.thymer.com
This is the most intuitive scheduling app I've ever used. The way that you just hover over everything and get to see what different features do without committing to anything allows me to explore your app without much fuss.<p>Feature requests:<p>1.) When I add a task, sometimes I'd like to add a really detailed description (or any description for that matter) (i.e. a project spec) and I'd like the ability to do that. The ability to bold, italicize, change font size and format, etc, would be helpful in descriptions.<p>2.) Attachments. I want to be able to attach files to my tasks.<p>3.) Keep the above features out of the way. Most of the time I won't need them, but when I do, I really need them.<p>EDIT: 4.) Just realized that the projects aren't hierarchical. I expected them to be, and it doesn't allow me to be super organized for more complex projects/tasks. An example of this might be Work>Websites>ClientA and another might be Life>Exercise or Life>Clean-Up.<p>If I think of more, I'll let you know. Nice job so far.
Maybe create an API so I can update this from my phone(via app) or maybe allow SMS updating. Mobile use is crucial for me, heck even allowing emails to create new todos/projects would be nice.
On your frontpage: there are some graphics under the video which frankly are too small to make out. You may as well drop them - maybe replace with a <i>screenshot</i> tour (I don't usually like watching videos because you can't skim through them).<p>Also on front page, your tag line ("For individuals ...") is too close to the word "planning" with a big gap underneath it. The tagline could be very much bigger and make better use of the available space.<p>Your signup page is a bit of an eyeful. I like the narrative on the fields, but maybe put the elements in a table with the narrative in a column on the left (in place of regular labels) and the fields on the right. However, thanks for guessing my timezone correctly (or maybe it was a lucky default ;) and letting me change the date format up-front.<p>The video is too long at 5 minutes. My (admittedly short) attention span ran out at 2 minutes. In fact, the first two minutes were enough to convince me to sign up based on the look and feel, etc. Someone I know who does marketing told me "give them just enough information to choose you over your competitors. Everything else is wasted." So less is more on the video front.<p>However, I did sign up and I like the look of the app itself. Judging from your help page, there's a lot to know so maybe you should make those pages into a PDF so people can print cheat-sheets? Looks like each section should fit nicely on an A4/letter page.<p>Sounds like I'm being critical but it looks like a great app and I wish you luck with it. I'll try to use it some more and post again.
-- I think the "D" discussion icon is superfluous. What's the point of marking something for discussion? Why not just start a discussion?<p>-- The name did make me think there'd be live timing function. Unless the thing with the broken, blinking <i>00h00</i> is it.<p>-- Project naming is broken. You allow projects to be named with more than one word, but things break if you do that: you can't use <i>@Project Name</i>, and todos added to a multi-word–named project are saved incorrectly and only get tagged with the first word of the project, so they aren't added to the project at all.<p>-- The projects should not be listed with arrows between: they imply a hierarchy where there isn't one. Also the general design breaks with more than two realistically named projects: <a href="http://imgur.com/Q49W.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://imgur.com/Q49W.jpg</a><p>Seriously, everyone should work with <i>real</i> examples. It takes time and mental effort to enter realistic data, but how else will you know how well your product works? <i>And</i> you'll be able to take much nicer looking screenshots that actually show what your product can handle rather than only hint at it and make me figure the rest out myself.
When I tried to register, I got a timeout on <<a href="http://thymerdev.stunf.com/accounts/register/>" rel="nofollow">http://thymerdev.stunf.com/accounts/register/></a>:<p>"The server at thymerdev.stunf.com is taking too long to respond."<p>But when I tried again, it worked. Is your web server having trouble with load? If so, do you have plans for scaling?<p>Edit: yes, it definitely could use some more speed. It's decent, but just a little too laggy for my liking. That said, this is the first time tracking thingy I've seriously considered actually using. I wish you the best of luck, and my reasons for doing so are largely selfish: I want Thymer to be great.<p>If you're serving this from a machine in the Netherlands, that could be a problem for those of us in other continents. The perception of quickness is important, so this is probably something you should sort out soon and then launch.
Thanks for sharing - I'm a GTD fan, and have implemented on both windows and OSX systems.. tried just about everything out there. I have also played with just about every piece of project management software that seems useful.<p>First, your interface is very nice, and mostly intuitive.<p>However, to me, I could never see using the application unless it integrated into my e-mail system. This is a minimum for actually using as part of my workflow. As a bonus, I usually configure my GTD systems to integrate with my calendar (ical and google cal).<p>A nice web app is interesting, but to me, and I expect most power users, GTD is about managing existing information (e-mail, calendars, folders, files, etc), not for creating meta-lists which indirectly and subjectively modify the information I need to deal with.
I really like the idea and how easy it is to add tasks / manage them. Some feedback:<p>1. It's confusing to see the equivalent of two checkboxes on the left, one that is an icon and one that is an HTML checkbox. What is the difference?<p>2. In general, the icons could be a little more intuitive. I'm not sure what "D" means (discuss maybe? Then why is a discuss button also on the left?<p>3. Going to a new page to discuss / comment is kind of annoying. I'd prefer something like FriendFeed-style inline commenting.<p>Good luck and thanks for the invite!
Some quick notes on a app that I think I will use in the future to manage the todos for our small firm (just need to convince the CEO/wife :-)<p>1. Being a swede I like the date format YYYY-MM-DD<p>2. The controls for changing the projects (private, completed etc.) on the bottom feels unconnected to the project. Perhaps you should place them just below the project bar or to the right of it.<p>3. The term changelog feels like programmer talk, perhaps you should use reports or history
Just this morning I was bemoaning my lack of a simple todo list. I've played with most of the big names, RTM, Tadalist, etc. but this one looks, at least initially, to be much closer to what I need. I'm going to get my girlfriend / brain on it later hopefully to see if we can begin using it for coordination.<p>I love the plain text entry, reminds me of another of my favorite web apps, 30boxes.com. The calendar I use which manages my entire life :)
How do I delete or rename projects? I can't find an interface for that anywhere.<p>When I wanted to edit tasks, I tried double-clicking on them. This did nothing. You can detect double-clicking with the dblclick event, and I think that would make things a bit more intuitive.
a few bugs I noticed<p>If I type in @today twice (because it didn't move it to the "today" section), it assigns it to a user called today (I believe, at least that's the same visual language as when I assigned a task to another team member).<p>Is it possible to access my google calendar? My biz team member probably won't use this, but we share a google calendar. Would be nice to be able to manipulate it through your interface.<p>Overall, very nice. I'm very, very cheap so I'm not sure what price point I would be ok with, but it's still very impressive. Thanks for sharing!
It would be nice if you would overlay the help image over the input box instead of forcing me to go to a non-functional page to see it. I don't want to have to "go back" to use what I learned.
Great start. A bug:<p>1. Create a project with a space in its name "project name"<p>2. Add a task to that project and only the first word is tagged as @project