Erika Greco's Blog

(Continued from “Basecampers, Beware“)
I’ve been doing freelance work for a little over a year now and I think one of the most important practices is carefully tracking your time. I went through a few different solutions before finally hearing Cameron Moll reference Tick at a speaking engagement at Valencia. I went home, signed up and have been using it ever since.

Now for the selling point. You’ve heard me make mention of my affinity for widgets before, so again, it has a widget. Sold.

It also has Basecamp integration! Something, I would no longer recommend!After my troubles with Basecamp I felt lucky to have a reliant fall back plan. I realised that today was the day to sign up for their upgraded monthly service. Up until now, I’ve been haphazardly getting by on their one-project-at-a-time, free account. Now, I happily volunteer my 9 dollars a month for three projects at once. It certainly doesn’t break the bank, and is an extremely useful tool.

Now lets wax design for a moment. Tick is cute. It’s a simple, clean looking, user friendly app (I refuse to use that term to describe it). It validates, it’s well designed and it helps me avoid awkward conversations with my clients! It has these delicious little bar graphs for each project, as well.

The team behind Tick is Molehill, and they have this great line on their “Our Mantra” page:

“Our products do one thing and do it great.”

Basecamp does a whole slew of things, ok. Tick does time, flawlessly.

Back to my Key Ingredient problem, I was able to simply add David as a user and give him access to the Key Ingredient project, so that now, once again, he is able to view my hours as I track them. Except this time, everything won’t go awry.

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