The only way to improve is to hear such opinions. So thanks, will see what I can do about the design. It's easy to get carried away with feature development.
Please make it usable from the keyboard. Nothing irks me more than to have to mouse-wrangle things around to track my time, which I do in 6 minute increments, so it can get frustrating.
If I have a way to switch tasks by keyboard, I'm more likely to use the app. If I have to mouse-wrangle .. just, meh.
Pretty simple: 6 minutes is the minimum default for time tracking in my realm, per contract. Clients don't want multiple entries for 30 seconds or 2 minutes here and there - instead, we report in 10th's of an hour.
I quite often fix bugs in 2 or 3 minutes, or even less - on separate tasks/projects.
However the minimum time allotment for these things (billing) is 6 minutes. All time tracking (per contract) is rounded up to the next 6-minute (1/10th of an hour) interval.
The majority of the bugs I've been resolving take from 30min to a few hours (if I know the codebase) - but they are usually complex distributed systems issues.
What kind of bugs are those that could be fixed in 2 minutes?
All kinds of things. Mis-configured project defaults, typo's, additional formatting/UI tweaking, really a lot of productive things can be done in less than 6 minutes.
Different strokes for different folks - just because you don't work that way, shouldn't preclude thinking about folks who do. The world is a big use case.
I'm impressed by your response. Keep up the good work. You are getting compared to commercial teams so don't lose heart.
But this is a good point time trackers are a chore to use for some of us. Mainly because we hate tracking time. So good UX is everything for people like myself.
To be honest, none of that stuff really matters in a productivity tracker, your UI is good enough.
The only thing that really matters in a productivity tracker is whether the tracker can automatically record my activity without me having to manually enter new tasks or manually tell it I'm swapping to another activity.
I jump around between brower tabs, terminal windows, ide's, music player, etc so frequently there's no way I'll ever take the time to manually record every time I alt-tab. All I really want is a tracker that automatically records the window title or tab title every time the window focus changes, and the timestamp.
Afaik that's not possible since OS's don't allow one app to know about the others running alongside it. A time tracker would have to be integrated into the OS to do that. But if anyone ever figured out a way to do that, plus fully offline operation and zero-cloud data privacy, I'd buy it in a heartbeat.
If I have a way to switch tasks by keyboard, I'm more likely to use the app. If I have to mouse-wrangle .. just, meh.