#JobTracker
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What's JobTracker?
Mr. Zombie
JobTracker is a nifty tool which lets you automatically track time and charges
(hourly, daily, etc.) on consulting jobs you're doing, etc. You set up a
'project' and set its billing time period and 'periodic' rate (dollars per
hour, dollars per day, etc.) and JT keeps track of it all and updates a hard
drive record every five minutes. Even has an alarm built in and you can have
more than one project running at once, suspend one while you work on another,
etc. All in the spirit of Amiga-ness – multitasking, nice user-interface
layout, 'iconify' features, etc. And it works great. Been available for a
couple of months now and we've had great feedback from the first customers who
seem very happy with it. It's just the kind of thing you want when you're doing
a video project or someone's paying you to do phone support of a product, etc.
You can wake up the JT project and let it accurately keep track of actual time
expended. And it lets you print out a 'history' of billing periods for
invoicing your clients, etc. The hard-copy feature (as well as the 'history'
file being viewable within the program) is handy for those who need to
substantiate their billed charges with something more than just scribbled
notes. All in all, JT is something which should have come along sooner, given
the amount of pro-video work Amiga folks do, but it's here now. Available from
MegageM. EMail me if you want pricing (reasonable) and ordering information.
Sounds cool! It wouldn't be much use for me at this point, but there are a
couple people I'll mention it to. One thing though–if you've got several
different apps going that you're tracking independantly (which, by the way, is
an AWESOME feature!) do you have to go back to Workbench each time you switch
and change settings in JobTracker? Or can JobTracker do something like monitor
which screen is on top, which window is active, that kind of thing? And if you
leave your computer, I guess you have to tell JobTracker to suspend tracking
for whatever job(s) are active?
Mr. Zombie
JobTracker is great, but not magic (no way to really tell just from which
screen is up front exactly what project that means – the Amiga multitasks! 🙂
). The JT Projects reside in little windows on the Workbench (iconifiable,
too) so you just bring up the ones of interest and tell 'em to turn their
clocks on or off, etc.
Sounds nice. One suggestion–let it jump onto any public screen.
Mr. Zombie
If JobTracker's 'alarm' is set and you run overtime, it does pop itself (and
the Workbench) back up front. I'm not sure why it should jump onto any public
screen, though …