OnTime 2005

A few months ago I heard that Axosoft was offering a free single user license for their OnTime Defect Tracking Software. After spending all of five minutes evaluating the software, I decided not to use it as the interface appeared to be conventional, if competent. The real value of bug tracking systems is only realized with multiple users. As a single developer, it's unclear if the value from a bug tracking system exceeds the overhead. So I decided I would just use OneNote, which very nicely lets me organize to do lists, design documents, sketches, and images.

But now that I'm approaching the release date, and currently in beta test a formal bug tracking system is increasingly important. I'm still just a single developer, but now I've got multiple users. My must-have feature is the ability to have software from the field report exceptions and crash reports. The Web service based API of OnTime made this easy.

I still haven't decided if I'm going to move away from OneNote completely, possibly there could be a OneNote to OnTime powertoy…