The Apple Blog reviews On The Job
The people at The Apple Blog were nice enough to write a review of On The Job. Check it out!
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After reading the review on The Apple Blog I decided to start using On The Job (and I purchased a licensed a few minutes ago.) I really like it so far but I would like to know whether there’s a way to generated invoices over a given period of time. For one of my jobs, I need to send an invoice every month. Right now, I create a folder with the name of the “job” and create a new job for every month. This is rather annoying because I have to reconfigure each job manually (with the hourly rate, the client’s address, etc.) Am I missing something here?
On The Job is the best desktop timer app I’ve ever used… and I’ve seen and tried plenty over the last two pc decades. You’ve created a beautiful work that’s easy to fall in love with in less than 30 seconds. Congratulations.
On the Job is a great tool and timer that we use in an agency to keep track of time as QuickBooks Timer won’t run on our Macs. We keep track of months and job numbers similar to Romain Guy.
What I’d absolutely love to see is the ability to review a day-by-day hour total available no matter how you keep track of time. A simple way to sort by date across all tasks in all folders that groups task hours by date. This would allow the user to see how many total hours you have worked per day regardless of the project.
Would be awfully nice if I could alter the Invoice layout, or even be told where this template file is kept so I could at least try to alter it to make it look more in line with the rest of my design work and logo/corporate identity. As a basic stopwatch, it’s fine, but there are widgets out there that can do this already. To be useful as a real billable-hours database and quick tracking tool that means anything, you really need to let the user have end-result control over things like the Invoice’s fonts, layout, etc. I can make my own PDF files fine, I can track my hours fine…if I wanted to do all that myself and one at a time, I wouldn’t be trying On the Job. If this is how it’s going to stay for the immediate future, I’d rather go back to manual billing and invoicing where at least I have a say as the end-user what goes where and in what font and size. My return corporate address alone looks ridiculously crammed into the lefthand column of this format.
Ron,
More customizable invoices are definitely something that we’re working on for the next major release of On The Job.