Crashes Much Too Frequently; No Revision of Time Entries

In my line of work, time is money. If I can’t track time and document it accurately, I can’t bill for it. The idea of Daily is fine: it will pop up every now and then and asks what you are working on. You don’t notice it is there. However, you don’t notice when it is not there, either, and that’s the enormous problem with this app.

When it crashes, there is no notification, no backup, no nothing to let you know that you aren’t getting the prompts you have grown accustomed to. It has been crashing at least once a week, if not more frequently. You lose all that record keeping, and there is no way of getting that back. It is beyond frustrating. I know I only paid a few bucks for this utility, but I have lost a couple of orders of magnitude more because I couldn’t bill for it. This really kills me.

Also, the algorithm that figures out what you have been doing is great, but not perfect. The operator (me) sometimes misuses Daily or does something that needs to be fixed later, like a comment. Daily doesn’t let you go back and make any changes to its records, and that really, really stinks.

Finally, the width of the daily window is not wide enough to see longer comments. I need to keep detailed records, and I need to copy those into another system. The only way I can see my comments is to go through the inefficient export process. That’s a hassle. It is even moreso a hassle, because the default file name of the export file has forward slashes in it, which doesn’t work on Windows machines, and doesn’t work with Excel. All of these factors make it difficult for me to process the data or have an assistant do it for me. I’d love to be able to click something to see and/or copy the entire comment without having to do the export ritual.

A couple of simple fixes, and I would give this a 4 or 5 star rating. As it stands now, it almost hurts more than it helps.

RealSosiosh about Daily – Hours & Time Tracker