Abandoned. Found alternative software and no longer needed this functionality set.

ChronoTrack is a desktop application written in C# using the .Net Framework. It strives to provide a simple and accurate method of keeping time of tasks as week as promoting productivity by optionally following the Pomodoro technique.

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Tasks

Categories

Sessions

Menubar

Saving

Loading

Auto-save

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[ ] WPF Main Application Wireframe

Task Groups

Break alerts

Active task alerts

Settings

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Timing Techniques setup

Other productivity timing default setups

Extensible alert/setup for custom scheduling

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Integrate file saving with multiple web services

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Integration with multiple task tracking services

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Chart View

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Auto-update

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README

User manual/documentation for use

Code documentation and cleanup

License

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Tasks will be a database table of the Task object type. Each task will have a unique id and name, as well as a possible reference to a parent category.

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Active Tasks are Tasks with an active Session. These should be excluded from the Inactive Tasks list. When a Task is added to the Active Tasks list, if it has a Category, the Category should also have a new Session created for it and be moved to the Active Tasks list.

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Inactive Tasks are Tasks without an active Session. When an Active Task is made inactive, any of it’s session (of which there should only ever be one active) would receive it’s endTime and become closed. If the Tasks Category has no more Tasks in the Active Task list with the same Category, the Category’s active session would also receive it’s endTime and become closed, moving to the Inactive Tasks list.

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Sessions will be a database table of the Session object type. Each Session with have either a taskId or a categoryId as well as a startTime and an endTime. If a Session does not have an endTime, it is considered to be an Active Session. Once a Session has both a startTime and an endTime, it is considered to be a Closed Session.

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When a Project is loaded, it should be checked to make sure the database does not contain any erroneous data.

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Categories are similar to tasks, except that they cannot have a category of their own. They should do some fancy color coding which would cause all tasks of that category to be colored the same.

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The menubar should contain all commands that the user can execute.

File : New Project : Open Project : Save Project : Save Project As : Exit

Edit

View

Help

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Users should be able to create a new project. Which will be a SQLite database. This will retain all project settings and data. Program settings will be stored outside of this.

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Program Settings should be saved in the user directory as an .ini or .json file. Project Settings should be saved in the user directory in a database.

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Users should be able to create a new project.

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Users should be able to save a project to disk. If in the ProjectSettings, the project already has a directory and filename set that is valid, the file will be saved to that directory with no overwrite alert. If the directory does not exist, the player should receive a message asking to create it.

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Users should be able to save a project to disk as a new project file.

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Users should be able to load a previously saved project.

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Users should be able to enable Auto-Save on a project. This will actively fold the file so that it cannot be modified by an outside source. This has the added benefit of disabling Initialization Error Checking

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Alerts are pop up windows that have settings to appear on top or under and only blink orange in the taskbar.

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Break alerts appear according to your timing technique and remind you to take a quick break. Extra features on this could include sending an alert or text after a certain amount of time to tell you when break time is over.

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The active task alert appears occasionally to make sure you are actually working on the active tasks.

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Timing techniques such as Pomodoro should be included by default. Users should be able to create custom timing techniques as well as import and export. Research: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique

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This should provide the functionality of syncing the document to a web service. Possible services include: Google Docs Research: https://developers.google.com/drive/

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This should provide the functionality for syncings tasks/issues from another service. This could also extend to posting time spent on an issue into that service, but that depends on the services hooks. This should also provide a system for automatically loading tasks. For example, if we were using Trello, of you had a task categorized as programming, when the task is loaded into Time Lord, it also had the task for programming, and creates it if necessary.

Possible services include: :Trello: GitHub Issues

Research: https://trello.com/docs/ Research: https://developer.github.com/v3/issues/

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Need to lookup licenses, open source, free for personal use/commercial use, cannot be altered/reused/resold all that stuff.

Research: http://choosealicense.com/

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Using Google.Visualization.Net should allow us to display the time spent on tasks and types of tasks easily.

Research: https://code.google.com/p/googlevisualizationsdotnet/

There may be other charting/graphing libraries that should be researched and considered.

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An automatic update system should be in place to provide users with a up-to-date experience with minimal effort on their end.

Research: https://github.com/Squirrel/Squirrel.Windows

Assess other tools that could be used or maybe rolling our own.

Things to add: :Views (to see charts and data)

String directory

String fileName

String projectName

Int id

String name

String Color

Int id

String name

Int categoryId

Int taskId

Int categoryId

DateTime startTime

DateTime endTime