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Ron Michael replied on September 22, 2009 12:25 to the idea "iPhone Interface" in Toggl:

Hopefully one of the improvements will be to make the classic interface available on the iPhone app. I'm one of those people that will prefer the classic interface no matter what you do to improve the nano interface.

Ron Michael replied on September 21, 2009 12:12 to the idea "iPhone Interface" in Toggl:

Great to see the new iPhone version! At the same time I'm very sad to see that you decided to go with the nano interface. I love Toggl and the classic interface and think you are all doing a great job - but I've found the nano interface to be absoluely useless. There is not even a quick way (or at least an obvious way) to continue a task from a previous day - clicking on previous days' tasks just seems to add more time to the previous day, when I want to add more time to it today. Do you really have that many users who favor nano over classic?

Ron Michael replied on September 14, 2009 15:03 to the problem "The new Toggl Desktop for Windows is a huge step backwards" in Toggl:

I agree, it's hard to please everyone with a single interface (and I am definitely in the Classic-fan group). An the public API is great. If I had a bigger company I'd see a lot of value integrating it into something else that handles other parts of our business. But as a very small company I like that I didn't have to spend much time setting things up or programming anything, so I can focus on programming for client projects.

I think Toggl is a great product and it's really great to see how it's improved over time. I found it to be the best time tracking tool available when I first started looking for one and I think it still is.

But where is the iPhone app?!

Ron Michael replied on September 09, 2009 20:02 to the problem "The new Toggl Desktop for Windows is a huge step backwards" in Toggl:

Thanks for pointing out that the other interface is available! I'll give it another try.

As for Nano... my immediate response to it is that it just looks ugly (sorry!). It doesn't feel right. It doesn't seem as intuitive as the old version. I really really like having the little hierarchy of my clients, projects, and tasks right there to click from. Clicking Create A New Task in Nano and having to type in a project name or whatever seems much too complicated compared to a click or two. And I'm not comfortable with how you can click on past days and then click on a task to re-start it. Where exactly is it recording the time when you do this? It seems as if it's adding the time to the previous day's time which doesn't make sense.

Maybe it makes sense for the workflow of some people but for me it seems totally wrong.

Ron Michael reported a problem in Toggl on September 09, 2009 16:24:

The new Toggl Desktop for Windows is a huge step backwards

Am I missing something or does anyone else think the new Toggl Desktop (widget) for Windows is a huge step backwards compared to the old Toggl Desktop? It looks like it sticks you with the Nano interface -- which I hate. I don't want to have to type in the project I am working on, I just want to click on it from a list and get to work. I thought maybe I could switch it back to "classic" mode, like on the web site, but I couldn't find the option anywhere.

I know I can still use the old one (and I definitely will for the time being) but it worries me that it's no longer supported. The old Toggle Desktop was one of the best aspects of Toggl for me - I'd not have signed up for Toggl without it.

Ron Michael replied on September 17, 2008 19:32 to the idea "Embrace Google Chrome" in Toggl:

I did some digging and found that you can actually control the favicon a bit with javascript:

http://softwareas.com/dynamic-favicons

The demo worked for me in Firefox 3, but sadly not in IE 7 or Chrome (yet)...

Ron Michael shared an idea in Toggl on September 17, 2008 15:26:

Expanding/collapsing in the timer

The recent update where you can expand/collapse tasks is nice. But projects with no tasks look odd, since they aren't indented to the same level as projects with tasks. Maybe a spacer or something should be there?

And why not go one further -- give us the option to expand/collapse clients. Make it a true hierarchical view.

But I think it'd be nice if all this were options. Have an option to load the timer with all tasks/projects collapsed or expanded, or not, etc, or not do collapsing at all.

Ron Michael replied on September 17, 2008 15:23 to the question "Discard edit time ability" in Toggl:

Sounds like a good idea for accountability -- but it definitely should be something the admin can set on a per-user basis.

Ron Michael replied on September 17, 2008 15:22 to the question "Is it possible to have Toggl Timer default to "Show Today's Tasks"?" in Toggl:

One vote for making it an OPTION, not the default. I like seeing more than just today's. In fact I'd really like it to show even more tasks - I'd like it to show me tasks from the last month!

Ron Michael shared an idea in Toggl on September 17, 2008 15:21:

Embrace Google Chrome

I didn't think much of Chrome at first, but it's application mode is a GREAT way to run the Toggl Timer. It makes it almost as nice to use as Toggl Desktop, with the added bonus that the web version is updated more often and so has more features.

A few things that would make it better with Chrome -- allow it to automatically log in when it starts. Sure it has my user name & password prepopulated in the login fields (that might just be Chrome) and I can just click login. And *sometimes* it does log in right away. But it'd be nice if it were consistent.

Also: not sure it's possible, but it'd be neat of the taskbar icon would change based on whether your timer is on (like the desktop).

Ron Michael shared an idea in Toggl on August 22, 2008 16:57:

iPhone Interface

Has anyone used any version of Toggl on an iPhone? Does it work, or are there any plans to make an iPhone app for it? I think it'd be a great idea.

Ron Michael replied on August 22, 2008 14:13 to the problem "Logging of time even after shut down" in Toggl:

I think it'd be a nice option - particularly for the desktop agent - to automatically stop timing a task when it is shut down.

Ron Michael shared an idea in Toggl on August 21, 2008 13:50:

Flag hours as billed or not

It'd be great if there was a way to mark what time has been billed to the client and what time remains to be billed - I assume this would be a premium/pay option.