HomeTime-Tracker Export Feature
Yesterday I added the new export options to the Time-Tracker (in the account drop-down panel). You’ll find three different formats:
- xml - This is the most detailed export. Everything that is being recorded is exported here (sorry no DTD available).
- csv - This one is ideal for Excel and other spreadsheet softwares. It lists all the tasks and time-slices with date and duration. If you don’t get what you need with this export drop me a note, I’ll tweak it.
- opml - This is an outline of your tasks (name and duration). It could be useful if you want to display your daily activities on your blog (wordpress plug-in anyone ?).
If you’re using Excel, don’t forget about Bryce Shober’s Excel spreadsheet. It might just be what you need (more about it here).
As for a read-write API, it’s still on the drawing board…
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January 29th, 2006 at 4:27 pm
In my opinion, a more important value-add would be reading these XML’s, and applying it to the current user. I, for one, am very paranoid about my personal information leaking out somewhere, so altough I do really like the concept, and the simplicity of this project, I don’t really want to store any information into it.
keep up the nice work!
SDr
January 30th, 2006 at 9:29 pm
SDr, I’m not sure I understand what you mean by ‘applying it to the current user’. When you log in to your account and select an export format, you are obviously exporting your own data.
As for the security issue. The Time-Tracker is about as secure (or non-secure, depending on one’s point of view) as any web application.
As long as you don’t share your login/password and keep your export key safe, nobody can access your data (short of actually hacking the server).
February 18th, 2006 at 4:17 am
I’d like to request date ranges on export. An alternative would be a way to delete old records. For instance, I’m done with January, 2006 now, so I’d like to either delete the records or not see them on the current export. BTW the export words just fine in Ooo2.
Dave
February 20th, 2006 at 1:57 pm
How about adding an import feature so that we can add more tasks from offline data.
February 21st, 2006 at 12:01 am
well.. what kind of offline data are you thinking about ? an export from a desktop software ?
March 9th, 2006 at 9:46 pm
Reeeeally like the export feature.
March 28th, 2006 at 8:41 pm
I second the request for the ability to specify a date range on export. Also would it be possible to have the comments, that are added to each time slice, part of the data exported to Excel(.CSV)?
Great job though so far. Thanks.
March 30th, 2006 at 3:03 pm
I too would like comments exported with the CSV file.
This app is just what I need. Thanks a lot!
March 31st, 2006 at 7:58 pm
No problem.. the comments will be added to the csv export as soon as possible (maybe sometimes next week)
April 17th, 2006 at 9:09 pm
The comments are now exported as well.