Empoche combines automatic time-tracking with task management. Learn which PC applications you use most, get more focused and discover on which tasks and projects you spent most time. Available for macOS, Linux and Windows.
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The project looks interesting. I like productivity score, tracker, dashboard and some of widgets. Btw, how you calculate productivity score?
Things, what could be improved:
- tasks UX looks uncomfortable I guess kanban board for tasks and Gant graphic for timed tasks should be much better.
- probably, pomodoro timer for tracking time can be useful for users.
- is possible to see productivity statistic for a team/project per day/week etc.?
@andrey_kucherenko Hi Andrey, thanks for your feedback!
- Productivity calculation is quite simple at the moment, every software category has a fixed productivity score. Later users should be able to set the score per category themselves. (E.g. with something like a 5 step switch between Very Distracting to Very Productive)
- Additional Kanban support is high on my todolist, even though I personally don't like it for every type of task / project. Also thinking on if something like S.W.O.T or MoSCoW etc. would be a nice addition.
- Timers too, not specific to pomodoro though. I am not sure if i am enough in pomodoro methodology to get them right.
- Not yet, only the team member and team total times for projects and tasks. Having a bit of a hassle to find out how much should be shown and what should not. (Have the fear to make a "blame game" out of it).
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@yves_hoppe Thank you for the answer, one more question - do you plan to integrate Empoche with existing tasks management tools: trello, jira, github tasks, etc.?
@andrey_kucherenkoI Integration in terms of importing tasks from these tools? Or more like combining these tools? Importer for some of these is on the list, depends what users want, as always :)
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@yves_hoppe I guess in terms of importing tasks will be great, but the topic of integration can be wide.
I like your tool and wish you good start
@andrey_kucherenko Thank you again for your feedback, helped me a lot to prioritize some tasks. Working already on the next update.
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Hi, It looks pretty cool, I've just started using it
My feedback:
Projects:
>Project creation panel is a bit unintuitive:
>>Icon panel takes up a lot of space
>>I didn't see the project title input for the first time it should have some description
>There's some weird animation when I hover over project in project list, it animates to like 150% of color change and then instantly switches to 100%, is that supposed to be like that?
>When I click on one of tasks categories under project in Projects it goes blank and I have to close and open again the application
>Upcoming tasks in Dashboard - I don't think the track task switch is working, to edit the status of the task I have to do it in popup edit panel instead of right next to it
Start/stop tracking application in the top navbar is weird
I hope the tracking will work well and detect when I'm afk because that's the reason I want to use your app :)
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All in all I think this app has got potential, UI looks really nice, but the UX, oh well
@922337203_6854775807 Hi, thank you for your feedback!
>> Icon panel takes up a lot of space
True, thought on making the icons smaller, but this won't fix that there are many, or just preview some and have an extend click
>There's some weird animation when I hover over project in project list, it animates to like 150% of color change and then instantly switches to 100%, is that supposed to be like that?
There is an hue effect on hover for the project icons yes, but it shouldn't look weird, just showing you which project you currently target (for context right click menu etc.). I could tone it done a bit, with the colors I tested (blues, greens, yellows etc. it looked okay).
>>When I click on one of tasks categories under project in Projects it goes blank and I have to close and open again the application
You are sure it goes totally blank? It navigates you to the task view with the filters in place, maybe you clicked on an empty project + status (for example no open task + project X)?
> >Upcoming tasks in Dashboard - I don't think the track task switch is working, to edit the status of the task I have to do it in popup edit panel instead of right next to it
It's not changing the status, it just adds it as tracked item (you can see it at the top window bar), thought on setting it on progress once you click it, but that would maybe a bit irritating?
> I hope the tracking will work well and detect when I'm afk because that's the reason I want to use your app :)
Automatic AFK mode is set to 15 minutes. E.g. after that tracking is stopped. It's currently not working on macOS correctly, because Apple has some weird way of telling idle time..
> All in all I think this app has got potential, UI looks really nice, but the UX, oh well
Thanks, working on getting it better :)
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Tis is great! I love the Empoche. It's a bit buggy, but great. It's a joy to help you with testing and development.
I suggest you to add integration with Trello, Jira, etc.
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Will use it for tomorrow tasks and write the summary:) fingers-crossed
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