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 .
You can download the gadget by clicking the Vista sidebar button below:
Version 1.2.0 (Recommended Version)
(Minimized View)
(Maximized View)
NOTE: If you are using old version (If you can’t find version number at the bottom of the gadget, then you are using OLD version), Please export or print the logs at your convenience. PLEASE DO NOT edit settings before you export or print your activity logs.
Minimizing the gadget to fit Vista sidebar: You can click “Minimize” link at the bottom to fit the gadget in to Vista sidebar. If you want to look at the more advanced version, click “Maximize”.
More storage: You can track activity for longer time without exporting and clearing your logs. But to be productive, I would recommend you to export it on a monthly basis.
Some known quirks include:
The gadget will seem to disappear sometimes when you click on “edit” or when adding new activities. Don’t Panic ..Just scroll through the vista sidebar tabs (On the top of the sidebar near the “+”, there should be “>” and “<”), and you should see the gadget in the next tab. The reason is that - Vista seems to push the gadget to the next tab when it doesn’t have enough space to display the entire gadget.
Currently, it is not possible to adjust the width. So the gadget will look like it has exceeded the width of the sidebar.
I am trying to improve this gadget whenever I get some free time.
Please leave your comments and suggestions. I appreciate your feedback.
Free Microsoft Windows Vista sidebar online timesheet, time management gadget.
The recent release had a new feature that collapsed all the activities for a cleaner interface. Unfortunately it was an inconvenience for some of the users and they had requested to revert back to the old interface with the expanded view.
In order to satisfy both the groups, I introduced a check box “Keep activities expanded” that once checked should keep all the activities expanded. You can check this option under the edit settings screen. Just click on “Edit settings” menu on the top of the gadget and you should see the option to keep the activities expanded. Once checked, it should keep the activities always expanded. Please see the images for better understanding.
Activity Tracker is a free time management or timesheet gadget. Use it to improve productivity following Getting things done principles. Managing your time efficiently. Capture billable time.
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