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gicard replied on December 18, 2008 22:01 to the idea "Weekly (or daily) report by e-mail to your inbox" in Snooty Monkey:

This request sounds like it came from the future.

A brighter, more colorful future... in which bubbletimer already has awesome visualization graphs and gauges which motivate us at a glance.

Are you using your knowledge of future events to alter the bubbletimer timeline again Tijl!!??

You've already gotten in trouble for this with that other off-the-wall complaint a few weeks back:

"Holographic 3-D bubbles not rendering correctly in my living room."

Eesh.

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gicard replied on December 12, 2008 18:02 to the idea "Visualize performance in a weekly report" in Snooty Monkey:

Very funny guys,

If you do decide to go with the happy faces, I'd like to be the first to welcome your new bubbletimer user demographic...

A comment on the idea "Visualize performance in a weekly report" in Snooty Monkey:

you're suggestions are all good.
On that right graph, it can get fun...

Bad/Poor /meh/good/great or because this is a goal thing which involves feelings, maybe you should forego the numbers or descriptive words, just use emoticons ranging from a a "sad face" all the way to a "happy face".

Let me stop right there before you guys abandon my gauge request for an even more idiot proof happy face.

Noooo! – gicard, on December 11, 2008 08:05

gicard replied on December 11, 2008 07:30 to the idea "More-or-less (+-) goal" in Snooty Monkey:

Between Instead?

Maybe its just another way to see this +/- thing.

There are certain activities for me, like "Socializing", that SHOULD happen, but not for too long, else they become a detriment and take time from other important goals.

So one could allow say: BETWEEN 1 Hour to 3 hours

Anything under 1 hr is not enough, and anything past 3 hrs is too much. these would display as RED of course, and Green if within the time alloted.

Would BETWEEN be simpler to integrate than +/- into a Gaugue/Performance Graph Tijl and others have looked into?

Could look something like this:



Comments?

Requests for me to shut the hell up?

A comment on the idea "Fill in half a bubble" in Snooty Monkey:

"I like where this is going!"

(that's what I'll be able to say once I can pre-plan my day using that snazzy editing pencil)

:) – gicard, on December 10, 2008 21:18

gicard replied on December 10, 2008 20:33 to the idea "Visualize performance in a weekly report" in Snooty Monkey:

Hi Guys,

I have to explain that this has thrown me off a bit, because it is different from what I was expecting. I am the guy who grew up playing Street Fighter, and now use sales software which measures daily performance like this:



So I respond better with simple "life energy bars" and "gauges", and would find them easier to work with, this is why I focused more on Tijl's Right graph, which I figured could be used internally to generate a simple performance gauge or life bar display the user would use as a quick "how am I doin' today?" idiot-proof HUD display.

I Just got the concept behind Tijl's left graph,

Red=BAD / White=NULL / Green=GOOD.

At first i thought it was a representation of bubbletimer, as seen by a spectral analyzer, or by Neo from the matrix. But totally get it now.

I can learn to work with that, and want to again thank him for his brilliant work.

gicard replied on December 04, 2008 17:47 to the question "Does Bubble Timer actually have a **timer** in it?" in Snooty Monkey:

I come from the Timer camp myself, so I get the appeal.

I would suggest that you try a little Yahoo-Widget (http://widgets.yahoo.com/) called Time Vault:

http://pogopixels.com/download/Time-V...

It is what I used before hopping over to BubbleTimer. I actually tested both simultaneously and to my surprise, found that Bubbletimer (with its fuzzy 15 minute imperfection) was accurate within 15-30 minute mark against TimeVault.

This level of imperfection is acceptable to me, especially considering that the timer was sometimes left running Amok while I went to make a "quick sammich", which turned into a full Obama vs. The Mav engagement with the wifee.

My guess is that in the end, both methods track things similarly (within 30 min.) because both are at the mercy our human tendency to re-write history in our favor.

In the example above using bubbletimer, I would sit back down to work and have to "Bubble in" the last 30 minutes under "Family Time" (arguing politics is family time... in my crazy head).

Using the TimeVault Timer, I would have to sit down, stop the timer which was left timing "Work", edit it to omit the last 30 minutes. Since editing the timer is not as easy as re-bubbling, I would sometimes not bother to do it, and there is a 30 min discrepancy right there.

I'll include a screenshot below so you guys can see how cool timevault looked, I no longer actively use it but do understand that sometimes we need to be accurate to the second for certain tasks.

gicard replied on November 29, 2008 22:30 to the question "Does Bubble Timer actually have a **timer** in it?" in Snooty Monkey:

Interesting.

Say I leave it timing an intended 60 minutes of "watch TV", and one show leads to another, then something comes up in the house and I forget about bubbletimer, will it mean I have now watched 15 hours of tv come the next day? How would I go about undoing that? Would I bother hitting undo for a gazillion "Wartch TV" bubbles?

The idea seems cool but for me it feels best to log in and document my activities while they are fresh in my memory rather than going back and correcting what has been autologged by a timer.

No doubt others would find this useful, for example a whale harpooner who would go out to sea for nigh on to 4 days at a time.

gicard replied on November 29, 2008 08:50 to the question "How do *you* use Bubble Timer?" in Snooty Monkey:

Thank you for posting this Tijl, I have found it most helpful and will prob. be stealing that "Social Activities" one!

What I am finding out works best for me (a non-single type) is to mainly focus on keeping track of the things that tend to get overdone or underdone. The rest can be filed under Broad categories so I don't spend too much time over analyzing stuff, which I tend to do to a flaw.

So in my case it looks a bit like this:

-Personal time:
* Anything I do for myself and by myself which mainly benefits... myself(?). For example showering, time on the web. eating, staring at the moon etc.

-Family Time:
* Watching a movie or tv (unless done alone, if alone then it gets done under personal time), dishes and any other house chores are family time since it is done for everyone's wellbeing. Having conversations/interacting around the house would also count as family Time.
*Hanky panky = damn right it counts as family time.
* Changing a DIAPER = SMELLY FAMILY TIME.
(I never realized how much I do until bubbletiming these, I swear that pie-chart will make the wifee appreciate me more!)

- Work:
*To almost quote that office space guy... "all told I have found that I do about 3 hours of real work each day."

Those are the BIG ones and take most of my day, and I am learning to self regulate using this tool. Now I know where I can make the time so I can get to the other activities that do need to be singled out and nurtured. Things like

-Exercise,
-Reading,
-Business Project

etc.

gicard gave praise in Snooty Monkey on November 29, 2008 04:45:

Thank You Sean & Eric

I'm done (majorly) complaining for now.

At this point I truly feel that you guys have diligently tackled the major kinks and have made this a most useful tool. Very exciting to see how this continues to evolve. Mr. Seah has got to be proud.

"Enclosed" you'll find my precious $20

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gicard replied on November 27, 2008 05:02 to the question "What one thing would you add?" in Snooty Monkey:

Great Suggestion JRinPA!

I would like to be able to see with a -quick glance- how well I'm doing percentage-wise with my daily goals. I'm thinking more of a simpler "daily goal-gauge". But rather than trying to figure out all the >< or ='s, each goal could be accounted for as a positive once it turns Green. I'm thinking something like below, where out of TEN daily activities, SEVEn made it to Green, so I'm doing aprox. 70% of what I set out to do and a gauge would display this. Not super accurate, but useful. ..

gicard replied on November 27, 2008 00:19 to the question "Summary Report Not Showing" in Snooty Monkey:

fixed indeed!

gicard replied on November 25, 2008 15:52 to the idea "Make a small widget" in Snooty Monkey:

Konfabu..... Yahoo Widgets!

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gicard asked a question in Snooty Monkey on November 24, 2008 20:31:

Summary Report Not Showing

hi,

When I hover the cursor over the Hourly Total at the bottom, a pie chart pops up showing an small, but accurate daily graph. But when I actually click on the Hourly Total, the Pie Chart graphic will only display a summary of the last month. If I try to select any other range of dates, I only see the calendars, the pie chart graphic itself will not appear.

Using Firefox 3.0.2 with the Adblock plus extensin
(disabled for bubbletimer.com site but I figure worth mentioning.)

Thanks

gicard replied on November 24, 2008 20:13 to the problem "Page refresh" in Snooty Monkey:

Same here.

Using Firefox 3.0.2 with the Adblock plus extensin
(disabled for the bubbletimer site but I figure worth mentioning.)

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