SomeBug's dashboard

Granted I don't know what programming you guys are relying on to display the bubble timer, but I believe there is probably a way to allow easier scrolling of time.

Basically a smooth scrollbar for the day rather than having to hit an arrow key to go left or right. You should be able to embed the entire thing in a scroll system that will still allow all the database information to work as well as the bubbles to fill correctly. Maybe you can even create the same sort of thing for the days, and maybe the days dont have to be horizontal. The days could go in list format so you can scroll up for previous days and down for next days, and then the horizontal would be the hourly for each day.

i just hate repetitive single clicks. id like some form of click and drag interface to move around. Eliminate superfluous clicks - increase productivity and efficiency.

I have a little mad scientist idea right now....

are you guys familiar with tarpipe.com? the new service that allows you to automate social site pipelines, so that lets say you send an email to an email address with a picture, it would intercept, format a lets saaaay facebook post that uses the subject as the title, the body as the note, and posts the picture to your wall.

if you guys worked with tarpipe to integrate bubble timer (or maybe you guys can do this yourselves by setting up some form of free email receiving account for members) you could allow the user to send an email from their phone to the email account (tarpipe or other) account, and the subject line could be the activity name, and it would use the sent time on the email to fill in the bubble for the appropriate time.

it would also cross reference to see if the activity exists. If it exists it will fill the bubble. If it does not exist it will create the activity and fill the bubble. Maybe even allow for custom shortcuts by number. so lets say my activity name is too long to keep resending in email.
I might email the subject (for example) as "scan:scanning documents on the 25th floor for case #43543" and it would keep the shortcut alias of "scan" (identified by the colon) in the system so that now i can just send an email that says "scan" and it will fill the bubble for the activity but it will allow the full activity name to remain in my bubble sheet for the day.

So in my phone I could put the address into my address book and very quickly shoot off emails like "scan" and then I would have filled out my current time for the 15 minute increment I am in.

Perhaps you can also add parameters such as scan -30 +30 so if I did that, it would fill in my current bubble, as well as the 30 minutes preceding the current bubble, as well as the next 2 bubbles after the current bubble. That way if you lets say get pulled away from your desk to do something and it ends up taking a considerable amount of time, 45 minutes in your can shoot off and email that says "scan -30" and it will tell the system youve been on that 25th floor for 45 minutes working on that scanning.

i dont know about you guys but i think its genius... maybe i am just buzzing on coffee ;)

but this is the problem that hurts me the most in logging my time. Being pulled away to do something. But i always have my phone....

opinions? praise? :)