Oct 3 2009

How to customize Fossil

Very few people touch application settings so it did not come as a surprise to us when we recently received a query from a user who does not use Timer in Fossil and who wanted an option to remove it altogether from the application.

Luckily Fossil already has this option neatly stacked in the Settings app. But there is more than just plain luck in us deciding to support this feature in Fossil. We understand that all the users of Fossil may have different requirements related to time tracking and we allow users to customize Fossil as per their business needs.

We also take pride in the customizations we left out so that it does not look like a case of over design.

Oh btw, this is documented in the “Tips” section of the Fossil, but who (including us) reads help anyway :) .

Since we are already on the subject, let me jot down what other customizations are possible in Fossil till now. This list will change as we add more features to Fossil.

  • Enable/Disable Timers
  • Support for Single/Multiple Timers
  • Enable/Disable Expense Tracking feature
  • Enable/Disable Tags
  • Enable/Disable Help and Context Help

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