Yearly Archives: 2008

Unconventional Uses for Intervals

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Although Intervals was developed primarily for time tracking and task management for web development, design, IT, and PR firms, we’ve noticed people using it in clever and creative ways. There are businesses who use Intervals to comply with various industry regulations — because it tracks time, task, and project histories so well — such as […]

Snow, in Santa Barbara

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Every few years the snow levels in Santa Barbara drop low enough — 2,000 feet — that we wake up to snow on our local mountains. Here is the view from home today.

Intervals Workflow — keeping track of meeting notes

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As a developer I work much better once I have a list of tasks in front of me. I’m also required to sit in many meetings, which conclude with me trying to distill action items from the various topics of discussion. I’ve tried notepads, which work well, but rely on me recalling conversations behind numerous, […]

Lightweight Project Management

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From the very start, before any code was written, we decided Intervals would be a chance for us to refine our philosophy of lightweight project management; time and task tracking coupled with reporting and invoicing. We’d done the heavy lifting in the past, using microsoft project, wallpapering our office with Gantt charts, allocating resources; it […]

Mobile Intervals

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As Michael and I walked back to the car after a late-afternoon client meeting, we got out our cellphones to check our email. It was the end of the day; neither of us needed to go back to work, except that we had timers running. Ideally, we’d have been able to update our timers from […]

Elements of Design

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The Smiley Cat Web Design Blog has a amassed an impressive collection of web design elements, useful for comparing design treatments from a wide variety of web designers. They are collecting everything from blog comment form examples, to typography. The pricing tables page is notable because the they are relatively new design elements in the […]

Getting decisions into action as soon as possible

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All 30 day trials of Intervals come with one hour of free training included. We have learned a lot during these trainings and questions regularly come up about how we use Intervals to manage our work at Pelago. For example, are there any process tips that might be helpful in addition to how to use […]