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Wanted: Daily project logging app
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Posted by zoe
Jul 26, 2015 at 08:42 PM
Something I’ve been looking for—a program for keeping a running log of what I’ve done each day on a variety of different projects.
I want to make multiple entries per day, with fields such as: Project, Client, Category, Description, Date Started, Date Completed (if applicable), Date Billed, Date Paid, Tags, Notes etc.
Then, I want to be able to filter the entries either in a calendar view, or by Project, by Client, etc.
There are tons and tons of to-do list apps out there, but most of them kind of throw out your work history, or at least don’t give you a good way of seeing the history of the project at a glance by date. There are also lots of calendar programs, but these focus on meetings and appointments, and usually aren’t sortable into project-/client-centered history.
For now I’ve been using a Google spreadsheet with Filter views to accomplish some of what I want, but that isn’t ideal for obvious reasons. Any ideas?
Posted by Lucas
Jul 26, 2015 at 09:48 PM
Tinderbox (Mac) and InfoQube (Windows) both have spreadsheet-like functionality, full support for custom fields, as well hierarchical/outlining functionality. These are multi-purpose programs that require significant initial learning and tweaking but that could be well adapted to project tracking (in fact I have used both for essentially that purpose).
On the other hand, surely there are some dedicated programs worth looking at. For Mac, Daylite comes to mind, but I’ve only glanced at it.
Posted by Dr Andus
Jul 27, 2015 at 08:15 AM
Try searching for this on the DonationCoder forum, this type of software has been discussed on there a few times.
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jul 27, 2015 at 02:18 PM
If you’re working in Windows, Zoot will do most of this. It has a steep learning curve, and there is still no help documentation for the latest version, so be aware of that. Also I don’t think it has a calendar function, but its smart folders can search for almost anything in your data. You can set up custom columns to track most any information.
Steve Z.
Posted by Paul Korm
Jul 27, 2015 at 05:27 PM
I’d definitely second @Lucas’ recommendation of Tinderbox for this purpose—but note that Tinderbox does not have “spreadsheet-like functionality” until you configure/code Tinderbox to have that feature.