I spent YEARS battling it and trying to make Winton’s life as great as possible…but no matter what you do and no matter how diligent you are with sub Q’s the disease wins! And it SUCKS!!! I’m so sorry you had to go thru it-but from the sound of it, you were an amazing kitty mom to Marmalade and you are an amazing kitty mom to Velcro(that’s so funny that you named your cat velcro!). I’m sure Marmalade had an amazing life!!!

Penny

I just quickly watched the tutorials on the site today and what you were doing during the interview looked so much more interesting than what’s on the site. The software is PC only though… I run a mac with parallels running WinXP so I think that would limit the usefulness to me in particular. Some software I’ll run even if they don’t make it cross-platform, others though would become frustrating if I was limited to one platform.

Just saw your post. I hope you enjoyed my interview.

ActiveWords is not a MindMaping tool, rather I would call it a “knowledge access” tool, e.g. we allow you quick access to “knowledge management” tools.

Let me know if you have any questions/comments about ActiveWords and I will do my best to get you answers.

Also, let me know if you think having a guided tour of ActiveWords would enhance your understanding and facilitate your use of our product.

Regards,

Buzz

Burton L. Bruggeman
ActiveWords, Inc./Seattle

I did find the full list you talked about but with more detail on your blog: http://blog.tsheets.com/2008/business-help/productivity-secrets-of-the-most-successful-people.html

1) Monthly subscription fee – I don’t like being tied to anything that requires me to to keep paying monthly. I got rid of cable and watch tv on hulu or the station’s websites (or not at all … I miss “Good Eats”.) Obviously there are certain things I can’t get rid of an function as a business.

Monthly subscription alone won’t keep me from a purchase if the increase in productivity and income would more than make up for the expense though.

2) I have yet to find anything other than an excel spreadsheet that can handle a certain level of customization. I don’t mean job numbers. I mean instead of needing to track my overall time I need to track billable time and sometimes that gets discounted when a computer acts strange for 10 minutes in the middle of the times you clocked. If I were tracking employee hours this looks great. Tracking billable hours it doesn’t look like I can add a “no bill” to a time or a “wifi router crashed, deduct 10 minutes.)

And I don’t travel enough to need the really nice added features (like jott to timesheet) that would make this well worth the money for some people.

Some of the reasons I don’t think tsheets.com will work well for me might be more about me needing to change in the way I work though … putting my notes of the time tracking and remembering to remove them before the client gets the invoice. I can see in the long haul it’s limiting. However with employees I’ll need to track their on-the-clock time as well as the billable time. Haven’t looked at tsheets.com closely enough for that (but I don’t have in-house employees yet either.)