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Ask Not for Whom the Bell Tolls

It tolls for thee.

Maybe that's a little grim. What's not grim however is giving the BubbleTimer faithful what they've been asking for. One of the most requested features to date is for BubbleTimer to play a sound every 15 minutes to remind you to bubble in your time. Take a look at the top right corner near the clock when you are looking at today's time (you might need to refresh your page) and you should see the chime option.

Screen capture of the new chime option.

It defaults to off but you can turn it on with a click and it remembers when you turn it on and off.

Let me know what you think. Like the sound or find it annoying? It's from the Adium open source instant messaging client.

A bug that prevented users with a period in their email address could not use the sharing feature was also fixed. As part of resolving this, sharing URLs have changed from:

http://bubbletimer.com/users/your-email-address

to:

http://bubbletimer.com/share/your-email-address
  

I apologize for the inconvenience, but please let anyone you are sharing with know about the new URL.

Here is the full "for whom the bell tolls" passage by John Donne from "Devotions upon Emergent Occasions" (1623).

"If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."

Posted by Sean Johnson 26/11/2008 at 06h52


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  1. rlmilton 23 days later:

    Why not make an option to have a time tracker so it fills them in for you... I would love this!

  2. Sean Johnson about 1 month later:

    @rmilton Having BubbleTimer fill in time for you runs counter to what BubbleTimer is all about. It's not actually about tracking your time at all. If you only NEED to track your time for somebody else, there are lots of good solutions out there and BubbleTimer might not be the best fit for you. BubbleTimer is about being more aware of where your time is going and the increased awareness causing you to spend your time more wisely. You having to fill in the bubbles yourself is a big part of that awareness and a timer running in the background on your computer just can't match it.

    What I do want do is make sure BubbleTimer is as efficient as possible so that while you have to think about how you've spent your time and are therefore more aware of it, the mechanics of recording it should be as smooth and quick as possible. If you have any suggestions for how to make it easier (w/o completely automating it) please let me know.

    Thanks,
    Sean

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