{"id":2175,"date":"2014-12-10T15:19:58","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T12:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everhour.com\/blog\/?p=2175"},"modified":"2023-04-11T17:02:56","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T14:02:56","slug":"everhour-insights-estimates-extension-improvements-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everhour.com\/blog\/everhour-insights-estimates-extension-improvements-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Estimates & More Extension Improvements Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rejoice! Soon you\u2019ll be able to add time estimates while tracking hours with the Everhour browser add-on in Trello, Asana, GitHub, Basecamp, and Pivotal Tracker<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I know it\u2019s been quite some time since the last extension update was released but it doesn\u2019t mean we\u2019ve been idling away. In fact, we\u2019ve devoted so much time to communicating with the users, gathering tons of valuable feedback, and analyzing product stats. Thanks a lot to everyone who has engaged in discussions, it\u2019s very appreciated!<\/p>\n

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At the moment, the main thing on our agenda is the Everhour extension<\/a>. Besides further enhancing the current functionality, we\u2019re going to finally fit the needs of Safari and Firefox users. On the whole, among other tweaks the coming updates will include:<\/p>\n

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  1. An opportunity to set estimates within all supported third-party tools<\/li>\n
  2. Browser add-ons for Safari & Firefox<\/li>\n
  3. Of course, getting rid of any bugs<\/li>\n
  4. And suggestion logic implementation<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Disclaimer: the described functionality is still under development and not available in the app so far.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    In this very post, we\u2019d like to focus mostly on the planned estimate feature and present our vision of how things are supposed to work. As usual, we\u2019re doing this in advance to let you guys share any thoughts or improvement ideas, so feel free to speak your mind.<\/p>\n

    Task estimates<\/h2>\n

    There is something Asana, Trello, Basecamp, GitHub have in common – none of the tools provide an opportunity for estimating tasks and afterward comparing actual time spent with the estimates<\/em>. Pivotal Tracker does have story points<\/a> but they still don\u2019t fully solve the problem.<\/p>\n

    Our idea is to always display an estimate next to the number of tracked hours. Clicking an estimate will trigger a pop-over window allowing you to set or update estimates<\/em> while staying right on the page of your project management system.<\/p>\n

    Initially, we considered adding a drop-down list of fixed values, e.g. the Fibonacci sequence but then decided to keep it really simple: you can enter 1 h<\/em> or 15 min<\/em> or any other number yourself.<\/p>\n

    Besides, we thought it might be very helpful to have some kind of a task progress indicator that can be implemented via an icon of a specific color:<\/p>\n