| Version: | Version 2010.3 / 2010-01-19 |
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| Author: | Sean E. Russell |
TimeTracker helps you record the amount of time you spend on activities; for example, for recording time in a time sheet at work. It provides ways to view, edit, and filter times, and provides a time sheet report as well.
Contents
- Tabular weekly summary report
- Variable date range views
- Export date range as CSV
- Back up database to SD card
- 12/24 hour format
- Font size
- Concurrent or exclusive time tracking
- Week start-day
- Audio and/or vibrate on start/stop timing
The main application view is the task view. This shows all of the tasks and a sum of their times for a selected date range. This is the main view where time is tracked.
To start the timer for a task, tap on the task in the task list. To stop timing, tap it again; or, tap a different task to switch timing to the other task. Two tasks can not be running at the same time.
Press your device's Menu button to get the Tasks Menu, or press-and-hold on a task to get the Task Context Menu.
Tasks are added by using the Task view menu's Add Task option, which opens a dialog asking for the task name and adds a new task to the task list. Cancel this dialog to abort the addition.
The Report menu option opens the weekly report.
The More menu option shows a larger menu.
- Edit Task
- Opens a dialog that can be used to change the name of a task.
- Show times
- The Show times option opens a screen with a log of the times for a task (for the currently selected time range).
- Delete task
- Deletes a task, and all of the times for the task. This action can not be undone! A confirmation dialog will be displayed before the task is deleted; cancel the confirmation dialog to abort the action.
This menu provides access to the following functions:
- Change date range
- Opens the Change Date Range dialog, allowing you to alter which times are
displayed in the both The Task View (the main view, which is a summary of
times for the range), and in The Time Log (the
Show Timesoption in a task's context menu). - Export view to CSV
- Saves the current times for all tasks for the currently selected range to the SD card as a comma-separated file. Only times for the currently selected range are exported; if you have the current range set to "Today", then only times that started today will be exported.
- Copy DB to SD card
- Backs up the TimeTracker+ database to the SD card. This overwrites any previous back-up.
- Preferences
- Opens the extended preferences dialog.
- Help
- Shows an "about" dialog, with the TimeTracker+ version and brief help information.
The Change view menu item can be used to change the range of times summed for the tasks. Options are:
- Today
- Yesterday
- This week
- Last week
- All times
- Select a range
Times are filtered by their start date; if a time event crosses a day boundary into a day that is out of the currently selected view range, the entire range will still be included in the sum; however, none of that time will appear on the next day, so times will only appear once.
For example, if the view is set to Yesterday and there is a time event that started at 23:00 on that day and stops at 01:00 today, then the 2 hours will be included in the sum of that task for this view. If the the view is then switched to Today then that time range will not be included in this view.
A report of the times for the week can be displayed using the Report option of the main menu.
Use the Report menu item to view a report of the daily time sums per task for an entire week. The right-most column lists the totals per task for the week; the bottom-most row lists the totals of all tasks for the day. Each cell shows the total for a task, for a day.
The currently running time is included in the display, but is not updated in real-time.
The Time log displays a detailed list of times for a single task. The list is filtered on the same range view that is currently selected for the main task view; if it is set to Today, then only times for today will be shown.
As is the case for the main Task view, if a time range spans days that are not in the selected view, then it will be displayed for the view on which the time starts. See the example in the Task view for more information.
The menu for the Time log contains a single entry for adding a new time range.
Use the Add Time option to manually insert times into the time log.
Note that TimeTracker+ will not prevent you from creating times that overlap with times in other, or the same, task.
The Time log context menu contains the following options:
- Edit time
- This option can be used to adjust the start and end time of a time range. This option can also be more simply invoked by clicking on one of the times in the list.
- Delete time
- A time can be removed by using this option. A confirmation dialog gives the user the option of aborting the action.
Please submit bugs on the ATimeTracker GitHub page.
The TimeTracker application icon was borrowed from the excellent glyFX icon library by PerthWeb Pty Ltd.