Slife offers a great way to keep track of time spent on projects automatically and that’s what made it popular with designers, programmers, writers and lots more people.
However, as anyone who’s worked as a freelancer knows, time tracking is just one piece of the puzzle. There’s also project management, customer relationship management, invoicing, billing and many other components that are directly tied to working with clients and getting paid for the work that you do.
While brainstorming the 2009 roadmap for our products, we’ve been thinking of ways to improve Slife and help people become more productive with it. As we were talking, it became pretty obvious that instead of building more functionality into the app, we should seriously consider extending Slife by integrating it more tightly with other established platforms such as Basecamp, Freshbooks and others.
So, we would like to know your opinion. Would it be useful to you if you could link Slife or Slife Teams to some of these popular web platforms? Which ones would you like to see Slife supporting?
January 6th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
FreshBooks! But I'm a bit biased…
January 6th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
I've been using Slife for the past month to track time and I'd like to be able to export those records as XML so that I can crunch them using scripts of my own. If the feature's already there, my apologies.
January 7th, 2009 at 1:11 am
Hey, it's Sunir from FreshBooks. I'd be extremely happy to talk to you about integrating with FreshBooks. Give me a shout at sunir splat freshbooks.com and maybe we can do some magic.
P.S. I'm at MacWorld right now, and my pesky Canadian iPhone does not handle email very well down here, so I may be slow to respond.
January 7th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
Thanks for writing Sunir. It would be great to chat about integration.
I'll send you an email and maybe we can sync up.
-et
January 7th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
Thanks for the suggestion!
January 7th, 2009 at 5:38 pm
Please, integration with Slimtimer.com
February 6th, 2009 at 10:30 am
Basecamp, definitely.
February 12th, 2009 at 12:44 am
+1 for freshbooks. That's part of the reason I want this app. I want to know what I spent my time on more accurately.
+1 for making this data available to my own scripts.
update: I can get the data, here: http://getsatisfaction.com/slifelabs/topics/how...
April 14th, 2009 at 9:57 am
ProjectPier!!!
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:51 pm
[...] We asked this question a while back and most of you really liked the idea. At the time we were knee-deep in Slife 3.0 planning and it didn’t make sense to work on any sort of integration with a whole new Slife platform on the way. [...]