Tijl Kindt's dashboard

A comment on the idea "Design feedback needed on Notes feature." in Snooty Monkey:

I respectfully disagree :). It would consume way too much screen real estate, especially when you can see the notes in a fraction of a second by just hovering over the icon. But well... that's just my opinion ;). – Tijl Kindt, on April 05, 2009 02:33

Tijl Kindt replied on March 27, 2009 15:02 to the idea "window flash" in Snooty Monkey:

Great! Exactly what I wanted :).

Tijl Kindt replied on March 19, 2009 15:13 to the problem "Tracking more than 24 hours a day?!" in Snooty Monkey:

I like it :)

Tijl Kindt replied on February 24, 2009 14:26 to the idea "Design feedback needed on Notes feature." in Snooty Monkey:

Looks great! I suppose these will also be printed in the reports?

Tijl Kindt replied on February 24, 2009 13:20 to the problem "Planning bubbles are behaving as if they had been shift-clicked" in Snooty Monkey:

Nope, though I haven't been using the planning bubbles much so far. Though I really should :|. It's nothing to do with your implementation though, just my lack of motivation currently :(.

Tijl Kindt replied on February 18, 2009 11:07 to the problem "Planning bubbles are behaving as if they had been shift-clicked" in Snooty Monkey:

Pffft... and now it's working fine again. Now *that* makes me annoyed. You post a bug report and as soon as you posted, everything starts working fine!

Tijl Kindt reported a problem in Snooty Monkey on February 18, 2009 11:03:

Planning bubbles are behaving as if they had been shift-clicked

It seems that when you're planning your day, the application behaves as if you're holding the Shift-key, i.e. it plans ranges of bubbles, unless you just unplanned a bubble. To reproduce, click a random bubble in the future and click another bubble in the same activity one hour further. Now unplan one of the bubbles and plan another bubble again some time later. In the first case you'll notice the application planned a range of bubbles, whereas in the second case it only planned the bubble you clicked.

Tijl Kindt replied on February 13, 2009 08:33 to the idea "Fill in half a bubble" in Snooty Monkey:

Ah ok, but what if I don't want to plan a bubble at that time? (i.e. a break of some sort)

Tijl Kindt replied on February 12, 2009 14:32 to the idea "Collapsable Goal Columns" in Snooty Monkey:

Good idea. My suggestions:
1. Only collapse the daily goal and the weekly goal columns, but not the totals.
2. Collapse both at the same time, and not individually, because that's too much hassle in my opinion
3. When a column is collapsed, keep a single '>', '=', or '<' visible in red, green or yellow to efficiently show that you are still under or already over that goal.
4. It should not require a reload. Reloads are evil.

A comment on the idea "Add average hours per day to graph" in Snooty Monkey:

It seems the average is being taken over the last 8 days, not the last 7 days. In the graph you also see 8 columns, not 7. I did not sleep more than 9 hours per night in the past 7 days :P. – Tijl Kindt, on February 12, 2009 13:48

Tijl Kindt replied on February 12, 2009 13:45 to the idea "Fill in half a bubble" in Snooty Monkey:

Ok, looks good, but I can't 'unplan' a bubble at the moment. Which basically means that if you misclick while planning you're screwed.

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

Excellent! :D – Tijl Kindt, on February 10, 2009 23:09

Tijl Kindt replied on February 10, 2009 23:06 to the idea "reminder when going over goal" in Snooty Monkey:

I'm also not that positive about a sound. Maybe just something that shortly highlights the goal you set on the right? Like flash it or whatever. Something so that if you go over the goal, your eyes are immediately pulled to the goal.

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

I prefer binary, really... – Tijl Kindt, on February 10, 2009 20:02

Tijl Kindt replied on February 06, 2009 12:01 to the idea "Fill in half a bubble" in Snooty Monkey:

That seems like a pretty neat and sensible idea actually! Me likes!

As for the half a bubble thing, isn't that exactly why it's possible to bubble two activities at once? It seems that you're more wishing for a change in the calculation of the total amount of hours, than that you actually want to bubble half a bubble... or am I wrong?

Tijl Kindt replied on February 05, 2009 09:38 to the problem "Pie chart display non-existent; pie chart cut off" in Snooty Monkey:

Heh, that's pretty weird indeed. And I confirm that the same thing happens with me. 83 hours is looking the same as 24 in my case among other discrepancies.

A comment on the idea "Treat sleeping differently from other activities" in Snooty Monkey:

"I'm sure he's going to come up with something that includes consecutive time on an activity as an important measure."

Done, though of course it can still be tweaked in how heavily it favours consecutive time on an activity... – Tijl Kindt, on February 04, 2009 09:59

A comment on the question "How do *you* use BubbleTimer in combination with other GTD systems?" in Snooty Monkey:

Grrr.... I want a mac. I'm gonna check out the Zen To Done... – Tijl Kindt, on February 04, 2009 09:57

Tijl Kindt replied on February 04, 2009 09:54 to the idea "reminder when going over goal" in Snooty Monkey:

An optional pop-up might be appreciated by some, but that totally depends on how strict you are or want to be with your own goals. Everybody's different in that regard. I wouldn't want to see a pop-up, but... maybe the bubbles could subtly grow redder/yellower and greener as you evolve towards and/or over your goals, just like with the visualization report?

Or is that too much color? :D

Tijl Kindt replied on February 04, 2009 09:48 to the idea "Add average hours per day to graph" in Snooty Monkey:

"Overall though, I can't help but think that the same information is provided by glancing at the bubbled-in areas themselves already."

I agree with Qrystal's comment here. The sparkline is faster to process in your brain since you're looking at the full 24 hours instead of just 8 as with the bubbled-in areas, but when I'm just looking at today, I just find that I look at my bubbles when I want to see what I did and not at the sparkline.

HOWEVER, I just thought of something else... What if you would create a sparkline for each activity AVERAGED over a range of days (say a week or a month). This could complement the productivity heat map by not only showing when you're productive, but also showing when you tend to do each activity... Is that an idea?

As for Flash, I don't really mind Flash. It's better if it works without flash, but if that's what better graphs require then so be it. My online calendar is flash as well, so I don't really mind.