:kelko:

Although the App Store from Apple is a very nice thing and it is very cool to see that quite an amount of people are using my TouchClock … I confess I think about not uploading the two iPhone Apps I recently created for my own purpose.
You know, it’s funny, but having people using your software can be a trade off. I really have a guilty conscience towards the users of TC for not developing a new version of it but sitting and creating iPhone Apps of my own.

Half of me doubts, that when I upload the new apps a lot of people will be interested in it. But I never guessed that there are any users interesting in an app like TouchClock either. So I’m in a kind of predicament. I would like to share these apps in case it would help other people, but on the other hand I wouldn’t want to take responsability for providing service and updates for it.

Well, what to do now?

How about that: If you’re interested in this apps you can write me and you’ll get it via the Ad-Hoc distribution but you have to be aware: This apps would come as they are. I won’t promise any service or further updates. If I see that they are too much requests for this app I’ll upload it (with the same restriction) to the App Store.

Now, what apps are this:
Hito: Hierarchical ToDo

Most, not to say all I’ve seen so far, of the todo-apps for iPhone work on flat lists. Hito is different as any todo-item can have subitems. And those can have subitems, … For every item you can define a name, a note, an urgency class (1 - 5)  and whether they are done. The amount of top-level ToDos not done are displayed in the badge of the app.

TimeTagger: Different kind of time keeping

While TouchClock is a rather traditional way of time keeping where you press the button when a task starts, pauses or stops TimeTagger is another approach. You simply tag the current moment (+ the current location, if set to in the Settings). You define a list of tags and when you press the tag-button the current time will be stored and you choose the tag to add to this time. In the list of tags you then can see the time, tag and location and of course edit the tagged time. Not by rechoosing from the list but by typing it into a text-field. This way you can kind of specify the tag more detailed. For example I have created tags like “Start” or “Phonecall” and when I’ve time I edit the tagged times to be more accurate like “Start: Working” or “Phonecall: Mom”. While you define a timespan in TouchClock you tag a certain moment of time in TimeTagger.

Ah, and by the way: No, I haven’t searched whether another app works like TimeTagger. So maybe there is already one like that in the store.