Eric Lanehart's dashboard

To track time spent on blogs, etc. it would be easier to add relevant sites as a bookmark folder from Safari/Firefox, rather than adding them individually. The sites that I read regularly are contained in a couple of folders, but I'm always changing those folders as I decide what's worth my time. If added individually I could also see them starting to make using the Web/Documents tab difficult as they would overwhelm the URLs that I use to track web-based application usage.

A question was posed here about tracking meetings, but I thought I'd expand upon that. I'd love to see the ability to track physical activities. One way this could work is by bringing up a dialog after a configurable period of idleness. When the user returns this dialog could ask if they would like to track any of the time spent away from their desk. They could assign an activity to this time, enter a brief description, and choose an amount of time to attribute to the activity. That would be great to cover things like research (with books!), manual work (physical mockups, etc.), and of course, meetings.

The biggest feature lacking I think is a formal notion of clients. While it's possible to define clients with activities, it's especially difficult to do that in my organization where we deal with at least several different clients per month. Month after month that would really start to add up. And beyond that, for each client, there is a lot of work being done spread across multiple applications, both desktop and web-based. The latter is particularly difficult to track, requiring at least a few unique URLs to be entered for each client. Additional files are opened remotely from an FTP, making tracking by client almost impossible.

It would be great to be able to switch between clients from the menu bar's dropdown menu, as manual activity toggling can currently be done. When a client is selected all activities would be attributed to the client.