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Client Tracking
The biggest feature lacking I think is a formal notion of clients. While it's possible to define clients with activities, it's especially difficult to do that in my organization where we deal with at least several different clients per month. Month after month that would really start to add up. And beyond that, for each client, there is a lot of work being done spread across multiple applications, both desktop and web-based. The latter is particularly difficult to track, requiring at least a few unique URLs to be entered for each client. Additional files are opened remotely from an FTP, making tracking by client almost impossible.
It would be great to be able to switch between clients from the menu bar's dropdown menu, as manual activity toggling can currently be done. When a client is selected all activities would be attributed to the client.
It would be great to be able to switch between clients from the menu bar's dropdown menu, as manual activity toggling can currently be done. When a client is selected all activities would be attributed to the client.
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Inappropriate?Thanks for the suggestion. One of the challenges of including 'Clients' in Slife is that you bring another layer of complexity to the app, but I see the value.
If you set your activities as clients with the current version of Slife (i.e "Client A", "Client B", etc) and toggle between activities/clients manually, wouldn't that work in your case? Of course, the automatic association is what makes Slife really special, but with lots of activities/clients, the setup becomes impossible to manage reliably, as you pointed out.
We are working on ways to address this association problem. For example, it would be great if you could associate activities with folders - any file in a folder becomes associated with an activity. -
Inappropriate?I suppose my problem is I want to be able to track a client in addition to the various general activities I've setup (i.e. Development, Debugging, IM). If I manually select one activity do the other activities stop tracking? While billable time is important I'm also interested in the general workflow trends.
Tracking activities by folder almost seems like a feature I'd assume to exist, though for me it's not so relevant because most of the files I interact with exist on FTPs or through web applications.
There's definitely going to be complexity no matter which way. In defense of my implementation suggestion I would say that deeper automatic tracking (i.e. who you're e-mailing, IMing) would be a larger engineering challenge, but amazing if you could do it! -
Inappropriate?I see your point more clearly now regarding Clients.
Previous versions of Slife could identity applications and obtain more detailed information from some of them. There was even a plugin architecture. At the end of the day, the plugins were not very popular (they were not super trivial to create, which was part of the problem), and in terms of complexity the codebase was hard to maintain so we dropped support for that model.
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