Patrick Filler

Meet Gardener

Harvest just released an alpha version of a project I helped build, called Gardener:

In February, a few members of our team were asked to dedicate a week to R&D by building a new time-tracking app. While discussing scope, we agreed that we get more done on days that we take a a few minutes to set an agenda, and we sought to design an app around this thesis:

I believe planning/allocating time will make me more focused and productive.

The experimental nature of the project gave our team a chance to play with Backbone.js, a framework designed to bring MVC structure to the browser. I was completely impressed with how easy Backbone makes keeping track of loads of data. A lot of the complexity of building a javascript app gets reduced to almost-nothing right off the bat. Awesome!

Anywho, check out Gardener and let us know what you think.