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Is there any form of timer/timer app for Podio - would be really good to be able to run a timer in real time as various projects / tasks worked on - entering time as a timesheet feels very old fashioned - currently use a web app called MinuteDock
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Hey Pavel.
Podio is open to integrate with other platforms with a timer - like Harvest:
https://zapier.com/zapbook/harvest/
podio/http://harvest.podiosync.com/
Maybe this can help?
//Sara - Podio
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Sara,
I tried and it would not do it.
Afraid that Zapier say that they cannot pass over time entries to Podio.
I had thought that that would be the perfect solution.
Without being able to run timers on Podio or integrate with other web app timers I fear that I may need to move across to a different platform.
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A stopwatch or timer, as a control that may be added to any app in podio, is a great application for an outside developer... much like the Gantt chart. However, as we've seen with the Gantt chart app, the implementation can leave alot to be desired. Functionally and visually it rather sucks. Which by association, makes Podio look shoddy, less than professional (if I knew how to say it in Swedish, I would).
I wish you good luck in your model. Building an ecosystem offloads development and gains some marketing juice, but only when the products are really good and and/or there is enough choice. In the iTunes App store there are hundreds of timers so if a poor one is created, Apple doesn't look bad. But in that model, it's for a "phone". In this case, we're talking about a Task management system (masquerading as a project management system)... so yeah, wake up Podio!
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Hey Sara,
yeah Zapier does not work neither Harvest. I do not even think that this is good way for podio to integrate third party apps such Harvest. If making your own ecosystem, make your own timer. If not why did you do video calling? You could just say, hey people use Skype, this will also do. Well I like your strategy to make independent collaborating system - SO PLEASE MAKE TIMER.
Think about it. In our company we have all stuff (projects, deliverables) in podio. Before work day starts we go to podio to see tasks and assigned work. Everyone has to find theirs relevant work where they spent some time. So clearly we need to record time in easy way. I do not want to go to different app just to record time. It is not ideal when you have large collaborating team. It is much easier to record time in podio once you are in podio.
I think timer would appreciate many other users.
Please can you tell us podio strategy in this matter? Are you planning anything like timer?
Pavel
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I would LOVE to see a timer added. A simple start / stop time and then we could check or add details to the timer after stopping the time. It would be much simpler that way. I have been watching podio for a long time and tested it for a short period, but am not currently using it because of it's lack of a timer. It has many great features, but without the timer is not a viable option for me.
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I would to second (or ninth, really) this suggestion. Podio needs a timer. A timer plus the new workflow feature would make tracking work in apps much much easier. As it stands, I have to have a separate app to log my time, make a comment when I start working and then go back to it when I'm finished and log the time manually. It works, but it would be way more useful (and far less typing) to be able to insert an app that would track my time and then record the results somewhere (comments and activities would be fine). I'm not sure why this hasn't happened yet, but then, I'm not a programmer.
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Another vote here for a timer within Podio. I am trying to keep the process simple for my staff and Podio solves many project management challenges at a good price. Unfortunately, the lack of included gantt chart and timer are starting to cause me problems (gantt used to be free). I don't want to be nickel and dimed by add-ons and I don't want my staff to have multiple applications to use for communication. I'd love to see standard project management tools as standard Podio options, especially for paid subscriptions.
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Another vote for a timer. We are an in-house, digital, creative department. Currently, we are zapping all of our deliverables (through Zapier) to Toggl, so we can use their timer. This means that all of our reporting needs to come from Toggl- what a pain when all the projects are in Podio! THREE tools just to use a timer is ridiculous. It would be very helpful to have the timer available when a member opens a deliverable and then they can start the clock. All of the time and reporting can be kept within Podio.
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Hi Guys,
Thanks a lot for your feedback and for voting on this. It it not yet something added to the roadmap. Even if we don't have any immediate plans for this your votes are not un-heard and we do appreciate it dearly. So please keep your votes coming and hopefully this will be something that can be added in the future :-)
/Charlie - Podio
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Hey know what would be a cool idea... Podio... could use a podio app... to allow people to sumbit ideas and vote on them... Then you could get a numeric count rather than someone scanning the number of comments made in a particular thread... and I'm assuming this isnt the only thread for a timer.
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Hi Seth,
We do have our own internal app for that :) We also have a feature request forum where you can do just that:
https://help.podio.com/hc/communities/public/topics/200069188-1-Feature-Requests
/Jacquelyn - Podio
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Plus one vote.
Do not give up, because a few months ago I asked about the possibility of filing/hide workspaces unused.
The Podio's answer was the same at the time. But there are about 2 months the function was available :)
Start/stop is such a commonplace tool, it would take only a few hours of Podio Code Warriors to implement this.
;)
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I use Toggl (as an extension in Chrome) and it does integrate in Podio to a certain extent. So when I open a to do/task I can start the Toggl timer and registrate the time I spent per project/client. The registration is done in Toggl though, not in Podio. Anyhow... there is way to time your activities.
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Even if there could be a report that would tally the time from the activity streams would be super helpful - just something to report which team members worked on which items and the duration of time worked (based on the activities in the activity stream) would accomplish what I would need regarding time reporting.
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I've made a time tracking flow in Podio. I can help out, but its a lot of explaining if noone needs it, so please reply or send email to info(at)ammos.dk if you want to know how to do it using Globiflow for Podio.
Description (not a guide)What I do, is use strtotime(<current date & time>) function in Globiflow (explanation: it gives you the amount of seconds passed since January 1, 1970 00:00:00).
Save this numeric value into the start field (when button "start" has been pressed)
=> https://www.w3schools.com/php/func_date_strtotime.aspAnd similar for the Stop value (when button "stop" has been pressed)
And then you can subtract these 2 values, and you will have the difference in seconds
https://podio.com/podiomail/podioflow-users/apps/user-forum/items/5264
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