Building a Better Stopwatch – Part 1
I’ve always been a geek for collecting stats. As a kid I spent hours typing all the basketball player statistics from my NBA Live video game into a spreadsheet for fun.
I recently took up jogging, so of course I got out the old stopwatch and started logging my times into a spreadsheet. Manually transferring times from the LCD display of my stopwatch into my google docs spreadsheet wasn’t ideal so I set out to look for something better.
I found the following:
- http://tools.arantius.com/stopwatch
- http://stopwat.ch/
- http://www.online-stopwatch.com/
- http://online-stopwatch.chronme.com/
Each of these websites provide an online stopwatch, but they all lack the features I was looking for, the ability to save and chart your times.
I am putting the finishing touches on a better stopwatch. Some of it’s features are:
- save your times
- chart your times
- tagging – allowing you to organize and filter your history
- keyboard shortcuts
Stay tuned, more to follow in the weeks to come.