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josh.w marked one of Sean Johnson's replies in Snooty Monkey as useful. Sean Johnson replied to the problem "Time reporting messing up all over the place".
josh.w replied on April 30, 2009 00:31 to the problem "Time reporting messing up all over the place" in Snooty Monkey:

Sean,

Thank you very much for both the fix and the courtesy account!

I am very happy that I can get back on track with BubbleTimer once again.

As for planning bubbles and print outs, I use both. Planning bubbles every now and again (prob 4 to 5 times a week), print outs every day (which have been greatly enhanced by the notes feature!).

Kind regards,

Josh

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josh.w replied on April 27, 2009 12:29 to the problem "Time reporting messing up all over the place" in Snooty Monkey:

I am sorry, but is anybody looking into this at all?

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josh.w reported a problem in Snooty Monkey on April 09, 2009 02:29:

Time reporting messing up all over the place
Thank you for all your great work, but here is something rather disturbing for me:

Time reporting seems to messing up all over the place. Either I have lost all feeling for basic mathematics, or something is going really wrong with BubbleTimer's calculating.

See, there's the printed summaries that do not seem to match up, be it for a month like February 09 where BubbleTimer reports more hours than it should (672h, 45m instead of 672h straight) or for a day like yesterday, where suddenly 2h 45m end up being 4h 45 mins! Plus twice 45 mins suddenly count 1 hour to make it happen. The day now had 26 hours! That's in the Personal Time Log View, in the Summary Only View my 2h 45m end up as 3h 15m and the day had 24h 30m. And the chart for February does not add up either - it's way over the top, 690h! I manually checked every single day for Feb and there are 24h logged on 28 days. Oh, and yes, the chart for yesterday (April 8) is just as off as the Personal Log Time View - 2h 45m become 4h 45m. The only thing that does seem to portray duration correctly is BubbleTimer's main window summary to the right of the bubble area. That's not good.

I have attached screenshots of all problems described.

I have reported on this before, but I am afraid my post did not get noticed:

http://getsatisfaction.com/bubbletime...

What is going on here? I have to say I find it all rather unsettling, because this way all the logging is pretty useless when the summaries cannot be trusted.

Kind regards,

Joshua

February 09:

April 8, 2009:
josh.w replied on April 05, 2009 02:11 to the idea "Design feedback needed on Notes feature." in Snooty Monkey:

No, I would neither like to see the icons of unused notes all the time nor the text of the notes w/o hovering. The way it is right now is beautiful!

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josh.w replied on March 31, 2009 02:26 to the problem "The total hours in the 'summary' option of 'print' is not the correct value." in Snooty Monkey:

Sean,

sorry to say, but I just stumbled upon a similar problem. I printed the summary for Feb 09, and instead of 672 hours (28x24) I get 672h, 45m. Now here's what's worse: the chart is off as well! It gives me 690 hours for Feb 01 to Feb 28. I manually checked every day of Feb to make sure I entered 24 hours worth of bubbles. Am I missing something?

Kind regards,

Joshua

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josh.w replied on March 31, 2009 01:50 to the problem "Bubbling a range of time seems to be broken." in Snooty Monkey:

Sean,

sorry it took me a while to get back to you.

Thank you very much!

Kind regards,

Joshua

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How to create new project in beta?
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josh.w replied on March 05, 2009 01:09 to the idea "Fill in half a bubble" in Snooty Monkey:

Sean,

First of all, I am afraid this might be a typical case of how you cannot please everyone in the crowd. For me, the gray bubbles were perfect, just because a) they looked like the black ones in shape (i.e. visually carrying on the bubbling, which is what they are meant to do), and b) they were a nice shade of gray, visible when needed, but not distracting from the black reality of time that had already passed.

For me personally, the black slash has two optical drawbacks: a) suddenly there are bubbles and slashes - that's a subconscious disparity for me. As I have said above - if I am bubbling for the future it's just that - bubbling, not slashing. And b) the black "feels" like something that is set in stone, as opposed to the gray that suggested something still changeable.

So, in essence, gray bubbles did the trick for me perfectly. But I can imagine someone else feeling just the other way around, so I am not sure how to make everyone happy on this one.

How do you personally feel about this, given you are an "eye person" as well?

Kind regards,

Josh

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josh.w replied on March 05, 2009 00:59 to the idea "Design feedback needed on Notes feature." in Snooty Monkey:

Thank you for continually upgrading the BubbleTimer experience! That in itself is so much fun! Kind of a surprise egg for grown-ups. ;-)

I think I like the basic idea behind the mock-up. If possible, I would also appreciate time-based notes, let's say per hour slot or something like that, because I tend to have some rather broad activity types I am using to collect everything that's not worth having a specific activity for (I have simplified my setup). With notes for time-ranges, I would have the option of capturing some helpful info to a time frame.

Josh

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josh.w replied on March 05, 2009 00:51 to the problem "Bubbling a range of time seems to be broken." in Snooty Monkey:

Sean,

Thank you so much for your great support. I keep telling you this, because I keep being amazed at how well you two are doing this. I wish other companies would take a big cue!

I did not know Opera was not a supported browser. Thank you for looking into the issue nonetheless!

I am using Opera for BubbleTimer, because I use FF for surfing, and having BubbleTimer constantly open in FF caused a few minor problems when surfing. (Such as, for example, not being able to continue typing in this field as soon as BubbleTimer played the chime in another tab of the same FF window.) Besides, I like to keep BubbleTimer open and available all the time, and if I click a link or do anything that would prompt FF to open a new tab, chances are FF will open that tab in just the window I was trying to use only for BubbleTimer.

So finally here are the details you asked me for:

Opera 9.63
Windows Vista Home Premium.

Kind regards,

Josh

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josh.w reported a problem in Snooty Monkey on March 03, 2009 18:36:

Bubbling a range of time seems to be broken.
Both on my laptop and my desktop using Opera I suddenly cannot bubble a range of time anymore.

UPDATE: Firefox works, Opera (suddenly) does not. Strange. Did you change anything as to how bubbling a range of time is implemented technically?

Kind regards,

Josh
josh.w replied on March 03, 2009 18:32 to the idea "Fill in half a bubble" in Snooty Monkey:

I personally prefer gray bubbles, one reason being that they are less intrusive visually.

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

Sean,

Thank you very much! Working great now! – josh.w, on February 28, 2009 01:29
A comment on the problem "Pie chart display non-existent; pie chart cut off" in Snooty Monkey:

Sean,

Thank you very much for being so involved in all this, I really appreciate it. I was afraid something like this would come out of your investigation, but hey, at least we now know what the problem is. And I am looking forward to see you work out this one as well just as you did with the other ones. Thanks for everything! Keep up the great work! – josh.w, on February 28, 2009 01:25
A comment on the idea "Fill in half a bubble" in Snooty Monkey:

Now it's even when bubbling pre-planned time spans. :-( – josh.w, on February 14, 2009 21:56
josh.w replied on February 14, 2009 13:13 to the idea "Fill in half a bubble" in Snooty Monkey:

Sean,

it's probably intended behavior, but now I have to double-click a pre-planned bubble in order to bubble it in black. Before (when unbubbling planning bubbles did not work with a single click), a single click was enough. This happens only if I want to bubble a single bubble, for multiple bubbles it works as usual (one CTR-click). I have not used it for long enough to say, but I might find it somewhat bothersome to have to double-click every single bubble I have pre-planned - makes me want to not stick to my plan! ;-)

What do you think, Sean? Tijl?

Josh

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