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OT, but how did you get into that time tracking habit and what do you use to track your time? (not) Properly tracking my time is my biggest weakness.
by tvon 17y ago
OT, but how did you get into that time tracking habit and what do you use to track your time?
(not) Properly tracking my time is my biggest weakness.
- breck 17y agoOne thing you could use is Freshbooks. I started using it for consulting and then started gradually using it for general time tracking.
- gridspy 17y agoNB: Not the OP Personally I track time using Excel. I have a table of start time, end time and a category and desc. I set up a macro to create a new row, another to create a new task after the previous. It takes me about 5 seconds to "start working" and about 30 seconds to "end" and type in a desc. It's great later when you need to have precise timing to see if you hit your estimates. I got into the habit when I was developing custom firmware on contract at Technman. I see it as a huge motivator. I don't track time when I am not working - so it highlights for me the holes in my productivity when I slip.
- dangrover 17y agoI use OfficeTime: http://officetime.net http://officetime.net I also wrote some Ruby scripts for parsing exports from it and making cool graphs
- Pistos2 17y agoNote to others: OfficeTime appears to be primarily an OSX app. They have a downloadable Windows beta, but no immediately-downloadable Linux beta. http://www.officetime.net/download.html http://www.officetime.net/download.html
- Pistos2 17y ago[I'm not the OP.] I use Freckle for time tracking. http://letsfreckle.com/ http://letsfreckle.com/