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Shall I compare thee to a 1DayLater timesheeting system….?

If I asked you to think of timesheets you would probably think of last thing on a Friday afternoon, loads of grief, wasted time and drab spreadsheets. A necessary evil.

Well no more! When local company and Centre for Digital Excellence, Codeworks recently asked us to help save them admin time and costs we went to it with a venguence. And now we’re making timesheets beeeautiful!

A work in progress…Part of the Codeworks <-> 1DayLater dashboard.

Data is fed in from Microsoft Outlook and then presented in an easy-to-read timeline, with different colours representing different projects / clients supported.

Our central dashdoard (shown above) then allows managers to observe, at a glance, what their collegues have been up to. Users can then see forecasted activities, generate timesheets or run a number of different reports.

And because data has already been inputted once into Outlook there is little need for organisational change, a major selling point for larger companies.

We will be getting some feedback from Codeworks staff using the system in the next few weeks. We are hoping that the result will be reduced admin time, admin costs and improved reporting in general.

Ps. although it is an awesome compliment it’s probably not a good idea to compare your missus / mister to a 1DayLater timesheeting system ;)

Tell tale signs that you have ‘made it’ in business or in life

I love human psychology and what makes people tick. I’m intrigued by what people consider to be the important milestones for having made it in business or in life.

Naturally this all depends on what drives you. For the financially driven there are things to aim for like…

• Buying a yacht
• Retiring at 40

For the sex-driven…

• Well there’s being Hugh Hefner of course!

I laughed my ass off the other day when a friend of mine said “You’re no-one in business without a bannerstand, just a business shmuck” he said joking with a smile on his face.

Like two opposite forces, Davids face repels conference delegates while our lovely bannerstand draws them in ;)

Well as you can see we’ve already got a bannerstand - no shmucks here I can tell you! Just another cool little milestone we’ve passed in a series of milestones which lead to…well whatever they eventually lead to!

I have future goals of course, and I would suggest others to map theirs out too. They are a great way of motivating yourself to do bigger and better things. For example in 10 years time I want to have:

• Started raising a family of my own
• Funded my best friends first feature length movie
• Travelled the world

But as far as success goes, I already feel like one! And I can attribute it to one lovely quote:-

“Success is a journey, not a destination.” Ben Sweetland

What a fantastic outlook on life! When I think of the journey we have made with 1DayLater and our achievements so far it’s hard not to smile.

So then…what drives our 4000+ 1DayLater users? I’d love to know

Happy Birthday - have some #tags!

Friday was my birthday, I’m now 26! Making me only a few million years from being a fossil, and I like the idea I’ll someday fuel the hovercars of the future… Awesome!

So in celebration we’ve battled illness and deadlines to add the long awaited tagging system to 1DayLater!!! Today is truly glorious :-)

To tags your entries, just bash the hash key and you can create tags as you go, or select from a list of all the tags you’ve added so far! So simple a drunken monkey could do it…

Your entry listing shows the tags like so. Clicking will do a search showing all the entries with that tag! Lovely.

We’re hoping this addition will give us the power to really get creative with how we can analyse your data - in fact, we’ve recently had a great brainstorming session and we’ve got some pretty exciting (and unusual) things on the chalkboard… watch this space.

Oh, and feedback? We love it!!

1DayLater phone apps are almost here!

Over this last month we have been waylaid slightly from our feature roadmap by a large corporate tender we recently won.

The result (which you might have noticed) has been less frequent tweaks and improvements to the site. But rest assured that we are still here working hard and that there are some very exciting new things to come out of our current development.

Despite our current corporate goings-on, the latest build of our 1DayLater phone app is finally almost release-worthy. We now just need to do some user-feedback testing and then get it out into the big wide world of the app stores.

————A screenshot of the 1DayLater i-phone app————-

The 1DayLater phone app will make it easy to log snippets of information while on the move, whether that’s time spent with a client, miles travelled, or daily expenses accrued. 

It will be available first on i-phone, and then on Blackberry, Google android and Nokia N-Series. We expect that this will make our service exponentially more useful for many users!

If you would like to be one of the first users to test the app, please drop me an email. We would very much value your feedback - feedback@1daylater.com

Paul