Alexa Task Timer

Inspiration

We thought the Tracking time column is great to track the productivity of the team. Is great to see which process we can improve and better estimate times. However, we found it is very easy to forget to start or stop the tier of the working tasks. We also firmly believe that voice assistants are a great disruption candidates for this kind of tasks (stop and start timers). They are easy and intuitive to use. That’s why we created an Alexa skill to allow Alexa start and stop tracking times of the tasks that you want via voice commands.

What it does

You have the ability to start or stop tracking time for a task on the go, no need to be close to your computer or even your phone JUST YOUR VOICE!

Steps to use the app: 1) Add a Start and Stop recipe in the Integration Center for the app Alexa Monday Timer 2) Enable the Monday Timer skill in your Alexa device or enable here (https://www.amazon.com/Xavier-Perez-Monday-Timer/dp/B08G16981M/ref=sr_1_1) 3) Start talking with Monday timer: Just say to your Alexa device: “Alexa, Open Monday Timer”

What you can do with this skill:

To stop tracking time for an item just say: “Alexa, tell Monday Timer to stop tracking time for a task” Or just say: “Alexa, open Monday Timer” If there are running tasks in your board, Alexa will tell you which tasks are running along with the current time for each task. Then, you will have the opportunity to stop any of those running tasks.

To stop tracking time multiple items just say: “Alexa, tell Monday Timer to stop tracking time for all of my tasks” Monday Timer will see what tasks are running and it will stop them. That easy

To start tracking time for an item just say: “Alexa, tell Monday Timer to start tracking time for a task” Then you will have to tell Alexa what task you want to start. No hands!

To know the status of your running tasks just say: “Alexa, ask Monday Timer information about my running tasks” Monday timer will inform you of all the items that are running along with the time of each one.

How we built it

We created a AWS Lambda function that has the logic to read your board’s tasks, understand what task you want to start or stop and link it to Alexa capabilities.