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ZEI° — Revolutionary time tracking device
Time is all we got, we should balance it correctly! ZEI° is a tiny time tracking device that will ease your life and get out your most productive side in no time! All you need to do is to choose your 8 activities, set the app and start flipping the ZEI° to its sides. Based on what you are doing, it will count your time per activity!
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Hello,
Very cool product!
This has inspired the following ideas from me:
Ideas: Use cases for this innovative technology include usage by..
Employment Administration: To develop work schedule & review billable hours corresponding to work detail & for interviewing purposes.
Educators: To develop a class schedule for review & improvement!
Students: To develop a personal studying schedule for review & improvement!
Mechanics: To develop a work detail schedule & create billable hours reference for customers.
Contractors: To develop a work detail schedule & create billable hours reference for customers.
Event Organizers: To develop a event schedule & keep event progressing appropriately.
Public Speakers: To monitor allotted speaking time per topic!
Sports & Fitness Training: To gauge workout time statistics!
Doctors: To time their appointments with patients for billing.
More Ideas for Use Cases coming soon!
I hope this was beneficial for you to read!
Thanks,
Jaswinder Brar.
@jay_bee12345 thank you Jaswinder very much, you're awesome!! There are some use cases that we didn't think about.
@jay_bee12345 @rohit11 I like the bonus - that goes along with ours :) thanks!
@ttrauser take a look at iOS sign up pop up. Typed in email but went in invisible. Maybe me. But worth a look.
Great product! What pushed you guys to do the pen as well? Seems like you could do the same product without the pen and just have each side have a corresponding number. Then have the it be dry erase and let the user manually put in the name. (this would probably bring down the price significantly) Also, Zei can read the writing on each side and convert handwriting to characters? That's impressive.
@james_osullivan hey James, we didn't made the erasable pen itself, it's just a rebranded pen that works best with ZEIº. I'm very sorry, but I don't get what you mean with "then have the it be dry erase and let the user manually put in the name". We have not added any handwriting recognition yet, but it's on our idea-list. At the moment people can write with the pen and dry erase it with the top of the pen, still we're trying to find a better material which works with whiteboard markers, doesn't makes your hands dirty and still feels good.
This looks cool. But I still has the same issue with every other time tracking service in the universe - you need to actively stop/start the tracking. The only real revolution in time tracking will be when your device (whether it's a computer or a laptop or a wearable) will know automatically when and what to track. Accurate Time Tracking AI. ATTAI?
@danr_4 We believe that would not only be revolutionary,but it would be the end :) the end of manual time tracking and everyone is happy. ATTAI = $$$.
What we experienced so far during interviews is that people are afraid of automatic time tracking as then they would feel kind a pressure to be productive 100% of the time even if it's not possible...
Really cool product! Any plans for a Slack intergration so colleagues can see what you've been doing or to send you some daily/weekly statistics?
@jesse_de_boer hey jesse, thanks! Yep - definitely a way to go and we have plans for that. Just another bot for Slack :) what kind of statistics would you like to see?
I love the concept and simplicity of the design. Does this give you reminders when you pass a certain time threshold? If so, I could see teams using this to run sprints and keep track of time spent on each tasks.
@jonathanzwhite thanks Jonathan! When you think about reminders do you mean vibration, sound, etc. or a notification on the phone/computer/email?
Very cool idea! Does ZEI has feedback functionality (vibration, sound, whatever...), so I can set each project max/min time to work on? Already signed up ;)
@yulian_ustiyanovych thanks for the feedback Yulian! Well this would fall into the category of customized reminders. We don't have any plans for that right now, but as we want to add Pomodoro support as well, we need to add some kind of reminder functionality. Would you prefer a physical feedback functionality or would a notification/email on the mobile/computer be enough?
Hey guys, I'm one of the founders behind ZEI°. We believe that hardware can finally make time tracking effortless and instant. But we don't want to create just one more time tracking solution as there are already many out there - therefore we integrate it into existing solutions like @toggl @harvest @timeneye @wunderlist @trello etc...
I'm happy to answer your questions!
Cheers,
Manuel
Such a smart idea! When I was a freelancer I could have used something like this, and the price is right.
May be next version can have a screen (e-ink) on all surface to show the time right there. And may be the lap timing as well.
@rohit11 Hey Rohit, thanks for the suggestions! e-ink is on our roadmap as well. What do you mean by lap timing?
@ttrauser Task 1 - session 1 - 10:04 minutes. Same Task - session 2 (doing again after a gap) shows last time you spent 10:04, now counting.... and total at the end of day
Hope you got that
Pretty skeptical of most time tracking ideas. This one looks pretty nice -- the physicality of it, the size, the way it will sit on your desk. I really think this looks like a winner.
This kind of thing is exactly what I've been looking for. I love that this is the only thing that this product does. The pain point on the phone is that I have to open an app or switch to it when I want to switch tasks. Excited to see it once it launches.
@ashwn Thanks Ashwin, that's exactly what we experienced so far. There are many awesome mobile apps out there, well designed and with great UX, still opening the app and switching is sometimes a pain point. We're excited as well :)
Hunter
This great device innovates the way people can track their time in future! Looking forward to the launch!
Hi Zei°,
Three years ago we invented the almost the same product, we couldn't find the time nor the investments needed for this idea. I'm very happy to see this product is finally going to be produced, also a bit sad that we did not made this product. Our market-research showed that their would definitely be a market for it.
Our TimeKube (Yes, we used a cube) had also some color led's in it to the tell the user if it was tracking or not. Because we alway forget our timetracking tools, right? We also added some motion gestures to get our timetracking app to the foreground of our screen.
I'll hope their will be a public api available to implement this into different applications.
We use @jira , it would be cool feature if would warn if you go over the budget time.
Good idea to not release now, but later in the year. Use the time to make it a better product, but keep it simple.
Concerns/Questions:
* Will it get dirty over time?
* Will my hands get dirty?
* Will you provide a public api?
* Can I take it with me in my bag, will it start to track?
* If I take it in my bag how will the surface of the Zei° be after a while?
* How easy will it charge? With a cable or on a wireless charging pad?
* Can I use my own pens? Or could I buy more colors?
Just mail me at toon at appsaloon.be if you like to talk about it more, happy to share our knowledge.
@toonnelissen hey, sorry for the very late reply. Somehow I didn't got notifications about the new comments here. I'm glad you liked it and thank you for your support.
Funnily we started as well with a cube but throughout the user interviews it evolved to a octagon. We have added some motion gestures as well, but right now they are not good enough to be claimed.
Regarding you questions:
* Will it get dirty over time? Will my hands get dirty?
If you use stickers or our recommended pens, then no. Otherwise it depends from you.
* Will you provide a public api?
Not from the very first day but yes.
* Can I take it with me in my bag, will it start to track?
Yes. We will work on something like a "Shock-Protection", still not shure if this is going to be there from the first day.
* If I take it in my bag how will the surface of the Zei° be after a while?
Didn't tested yet. The material is very robust and easy to clean however it depends what else is in your bag.
* How easy will it charge? With a cable or on a wireless charging pad?
It has a coin battery on the inside which lasts for at least 1y and you can easily replace it.
* Can I use my own pens? Or could I buy more colors?
We're testing a lot of different pen and material combinations in order to give you as much freedom as possible but still keeping your hands clean. Not an easy challenge but we're on a good way.
Any chance of a public api? We use our own bespoke time tracker but would love to use this!
@jozefmaxted hey Jozef, right now we don't have plans for that but soon or later we will add that as well. But what we offer from the first day is a CSV export. Maybe you can use that?
Playing with my Makerkit is a lot of fun, but took a while to get it right. I really like having the physical object to turnover, but the apps also work great on the phone. Main downside is that when my laptop is shutdown / hibernates, the zei does not always reconnect. Means I just use the app instead.
Pros:Great Apps, very nice to have a physical device to turnover
Cons:Disconnecting issues with laptop hibernation
@leozakour thanks for the interest and sorry for the late reply. The pre-orders start on the beginning of September.
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