Related to: [Activity Tracker - Punchclock & Time Management Gadget]
By this time you must have noticed a new feature when you click “log” for an activity. Today I added a new feature to Activity Tracker’s log report. This is a server-side update and hence it will not affect any gadget’s functionality. The new feature gives you a summary of hours spent in an activity for each week day.
Snapshot of summary report
By default, this summary report is not generated. Once you click “Show Summary” link at the top menu, your weekly time report summary will be generated. This report adds up all the punched-in hours for each day and displays it in a table.
This report also includes the following:
- Look-up Calendar: Though the report displays the week number , start date and end date, I thought it will be more helpful to include a small look-up calendar to look-up dates while working with the report.
- Printing the summary report: In order to print the summary report you need to have the report open. To avoid printing the summary report, just click “Hide Summary” and click “Print” from the top menu.
- Exporting the report: Remember that the summary report will be generated only when after you click “Show Summary”. So in order to export the summary report along with the detailed time report, click “Show Summary” and then click “Export”. To avoid exporting the summary report, click “export” before clicking “Show Summary”
- Week Index (Avoid scrolling): Clicking the week number in the summary report will take you to the corresponding week’s detailed time report without having to scroll through the end of the report.
Feel free to leave your comments and suggestions. I am maintaining a to-do list with most of the new features suggested by gadget users. I will implement them one by one. As always, this gadget is free to use 
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brilliant! Thanks a lot! Keep up the good work. I would be grateful if you could explain the whole online-offline bussiness: where are my data actually stored and is that the same, whether I use sidebar- or igoogle version? I´d still like a google-desktop-version too.
Hi I really want to thank you for this gadget. I have been using it for 8 weeks now and it is really helping me improving my time management. One feature that is missing, in my opinion, is to be able to compare the time spent for each of the categories in each week all in the same page. Maybe something like this new summary feature where columns are activities and one summary is for one week. Of course the user has to pick the week or weeks s/he wants to view. this will give me the opportunity to compare my time allocation. For example if I want to use less time blogging and more time on fitness I can monitor it within the week and I can monitor my progress across the weeks.
Thanks for the great tool.
Anar
Mahin,
First, Activity Tracker is so ingrained in my work habits that it would be difficult to do without it and these improvements are very welcome. Excellent program. Keep it up. Next time you are in the code, can you consider 2 changes?
1. Make the Activity description field for “Add New” and “Edit” the same length? “Edit” chops off the description entry.
2. Make the Activity description field highlightable after creation so it can be copied?
BEAUTIFUL !!! Thank you very much. I’m still between using the activity tracker and writing out manual becuase the summary that I really am looking for is a day summary. I need to report my week time but also need to do a summary by day. It’s not so much WHEN I worked on activities but what activities I did during one day and how much time I’ve put in for one day.
KEEP THE GOOD STUFF COMING - I tell everyone about this great tool! Hope the day summary is on the way like the activity summary you just did!
Very nice tool!
I have a feature request - a big one… I would like to be able to share activites with others, e.g. Google Calander groups.
a suggestion would be to make the task in a two level hieraki like:
project 1
- task a
- task b
- task c
project 2
- task d
- task e
etc. etc.
In this case first level (project) could be shared amoung a Google Calandar group and the tasks (second level) can be viewed by all in the group, but only edited by the creater.
Going even further…
From this setup it can expand with possibility to create tasks for other in a group. And maybe even have tasks more than one person can edit, start and stop. But I guess that will be really difficult to make
anyway… I would be able to use the feature where projects are shared amoung a group. One can view other peoples tasks under that project, but only edit your own.
Keep up the great work!
BR. Anders
Great gadget!
Now exactely I know my time traps. But there is a bug in sum of each day. My reports shows 2 or 0 for time per day and not correct tracked time.
I love this tool, but often need to run several tasks at the same time. If you could add a feature in the future to have more than one task active at a time, that would be great.
Thanks,
busyconsultant
Thank you for this great igoogle app, I use it all the time for my projects.
It would be great to have an option in igoogle that clears all activities once I’m done for the day..
Great gadget! Dumb question: how do I get rid of the red “New Feature Update!” link that appeared about 10 days ago? Or will it just go away by itself at some point?
thanks,
JohnB
Thanks for this - brilliant and simple to use. My wish list would include a break down for each ‘activity’ this way I can use it for Client’s Projects and generate a report per client.
Great Gadget.
I suggest adding the word “Check” on the buttons, so the button states “Check in,” or “Check out.” This helps clarify the action that is done when you press the button. When I first used the Activity Tracker, and had only one project listed, I thought the word on the button displayed the MODE, or present situation, that I was in - i.e. “You are now checked in” “You are now checked out.” Others may have made this mistake as well.
Keep up the good work,
David
Wonderful!
I love it! Sent it to all my colleagues.
Use the Vista desktop and the Google version while I am traveling. I have been looking for this forever…
Thank you so very much!
Veronica
Love the software but for some reason, I can’t get the graph to load today. I keep getting this response: “Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.
Size of a request header field exceeds server limit.”
Any ideas what is going on?
Thanks!
N.
hi
Great gadet..is it possible to add it on my google desktop sidebar ?
We have an *awful* time-tracking thing we have to do (bad UI), usually done as a “catch-up” task every few days, or even at the end of the week. But each day I work on easily a half dozen different things, and each of them in-and-out several times during the day. The summary I need is to gather all time for each project, for each weekday, all in one table.
i.e. Without changing pages, I need to see 2.5 hours of meetings Mon, 1 hour meetings Tue, 2hrs meetings Wed, AND 1hr Project ABC Mon, 4hrs Project ABC Tue, 2hrs Project XYZ Wed.
So the new summary is half what I need. It’s great to have the time divided by days, but it’s only for one item. I need all the items. Can it be done?
As it is, this makes my time-tracking much easier, but I reset all logs every morning after transferring the data to the icky system, and begin again. I’d rather use your tool ALL week, then transfer to icky system next Monday all in one shot.
Thank you all for your suggestions. I will definitely consider these in the next release.
Cool gadget. I’ve been using it for months. Brilliantly simple.
I’d like to second what others have requested before: I’d like to see what projects I have spent my week on, to improve my personal time management.
(Or, alternatively, do this myself by downloading all data in one excell file.)
Love this gadged
Great but also a question.
I’m not getting the graph of the time.
Windows 7 with IE8, and it would be nice to be able to use FF insted of IE.
Also the export is great, but it would be great if it also woud have an inport.
and at last does de igoogle get an update to so it wil work again??
Are you aimin to get a new update of this gadget or is it a dead project.