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time management calculations when there are constant interruptions
I'm a solo law practitioner, having used access 2003 and its predecessors on
xp for many years. I don't know vdb. I created a basic todo-done form which works well for me. As for time management, right now, I have two fields, [start] and [finish] for the specific todo-done record, i.e. I start at 2:00 pm, end at 3:45 PM, and subtract the time. The problem is I am constantly interrupted from one task to work on 'something else', sometimes three or four 'something else's'. Hours later, I then must come back to the original task. I want to set up something, where I can track time on each of the mini tasks. I don't want to reinvent the wheel. a. Can someone recommend any access based programs for time management which allow for interruptions. Microsoft's "Time and How Much Has Elapsed" doesn't cover interruptions, ie. jumping back and forth. b. Anyone have suggestions on how to set it up. I am not a computer professional. c) Anyone know of commercial time programs that interface directly with access data, especially programs catering to people who charge for time. |
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time management calculations when there are constant interruptions
I did a net search of 'time management software', here are some links:
http://www.timetrackingsoftware.com/ http://www.avidian.com/management-so...-software.html http://www.todolistsoft.com/ bird lover wrote: I'm a solo law practitioner, having used access 2003 and its predecessors on xp for many years. I don't know vdb. I created a basic todo-done form which works well for me. As for time management, right now, I have two fields, [start] and [finish] for the specific todo-done record, i.e. I start at 2:00 pm, end at 3:45 PM, and subtract the time. The problem is I am constantly interrupted from one task to work on 'something else', sometimes three or four 'something else's'. Hours later, I then must come back to the original task. I want to set up something, where I can track time on each of the mini tasks. I don't want to reinvent the wheel. a. Can someone recommend any access based programs for time management which allow for interruptions. Microsoft's "Time and How Much Has Elapsed" doesn't cover interruptions, ie. jumping back and forth. b. Anyone have suggestions on how to set it up. I am not a computer professional. c) Anyone know of commercial time programs that interface directly with access data, especially programs catering to people who charge for time. -- Message posted via AccessMonster.com http://www.accessmonster.com/Uwe/For...esign/200909/1 |
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time management calculations when there are constant interruptions
I guess what I'm not clear on is why, if you already have a way to add a
record for "ProjectA" from Date/Time1 to Date/Time2, you don't just add a record for each of the interruptions as well? That way, you'd potentially have multiple records per day, per Project, but you could use a Totals query to sum them up by day, week, whatever... What am I missing? Regards Jeff Boyce Microsoft Office/Access MVP "bird lover" wrote in message ... I'm a solo law practitioner, having used access 2003 and its predecessors on xp for many years. I don't know vdb. I created a basic todo-done form which works well for me. As for time management, right now, I have two fields, [start] and [finish] for the specific todo-done record, i.e. I start at 2:00 pm, end at 3:45 PM, and subtract the time. The problem is I am constantly interrupted from one task to work on 'something else', sometimes three or four 'something else's'. Hours later, I then must come back to the original task. I want to set up something, where I can track time on each of the mini tasks. I don't want to reinvent the wheel. a. Can someone recommend any access based programs for time management which allow for interruptions. Microsoft's "Time and How Much Has Elapsed" doesn't cover interruptions, ie. jumping back and forth. b. Anyone have suggestions on how to set it up. I am not a computer professional. c) Anyone know of commercial time programs that interface directly with access data, especially programs catering to people who charge for time. |
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time management calculations when there are constant interrupt
We do exactly what you describe, and do it as Jeff describes. Just to
clarify, there is a field which specifies what specific item the time was spent on. We have dropdowns for some common repeated ones (i.e. Lunch, hous spent at the water cooler :-) etc. ) BTW, the hardest part isn't the DB part, it's having to record the times for each "switch"/interruption, and what task or activity was commenced at the time of the switch. I've been trying to buy a large bottle of WillPower in order to actually get that done, or buy a mind-reading computer so that we don't have to. |
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