Author Archives: Michael Payne

Scratchpad is live

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Today we launched the scratchpad.  We found that folks have various ways of quickly taking notes.  For example, if a client calls I quickly fire up Textpad and take notes.  One of my co-workers does the same thing by creating a new email message and saving it as a draft.  Since everyone has a quick way […]

General Timer is live

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The general timer went live today.  We received requests for the ability to track time that was not associated with a task.  The general timer is in the footer of every page and works just like the task timer.  

Beta officially open

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Tonight we officially open up the beta program.  We’ll be sending an email to the approved betas with a registration code. Thanks to the development team on all of the hard work!

T-minus 1 week until the beta opens

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We are one week away from opening up the beta to those who have signed up.  Thank you to all of our beta testers in advance.  We’re anxious to get your feedback. If you need to get a grasp on where your man hours are going, web based task and time management makes a lot […]

Interface Tuning Continues

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We think you’ll appreciate that Intervals is being designed and developed by a firm that knows design and development. We’re not loading it up with tons of cool functionality that’s hard to look at or hard to use, or making it pretty but useless:

Timesheet Management

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Our own evolution with timesheet management went like this: 1. Painful paper timesheets, entered into Spreadsheet form When we decided that spending weekends data entering and not having a real time view of our projects just didn’t make sense any more, we evolved to: 2. Try third party software Desktop software, web based software, lots […]

What’s up with the Beta?

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Isn’t Intervals supposed to be in Beta by now? Well, yes and no. According to our official release plan we’re still on target for a “First Quarter 2006” Beta. Our over zealous Product Manager Michael Payne may have sent a few emails in early December and said something about “5 – 6 weeks away” (which […]