Time Tracker

[LeAnn B]

Can anyone suggest an application or software that will keep track of how much time I've spent working on a particular project?

[[Admin] skstarkiller]

Check out freshbooks

http://www.freshbooks.com/

[wvpv]

I've tried lots of things to track time and I've found Excel (or Google Spreadsheets, OpenOffice Calc) to be the best for me.

I have a worksheet with the following columns:

Date, Task, Hours, Type, Sub Type, Comments

I then use a pivot table or autofilter to sum up the hours. A few of times a day I update the hours by task in 15 minute increments.

Before Excel I used Allnetic's Working Time Tracker until it stopped being free.

[jason.e.mock]

If the work you do is largely at a computer (as is mine), and you want the option to be really detailed about tracking your time when you want to, I suggest ManicTime.com, which tracks which application I am in at any given time. Then, I go back and highlight, for example, that I was in Outlook from 8:00-9:10 so I "tag" that time as "email" and I was editing a certain Word document from 9:10-9:20 and again from 10:15-10:40 so I tag that as "Project A", etc. ManicTime will then sum together how much time you spent each day on each project, making adding together multiple time periods devoted to "Project A" a breeze.

That's just what I use and may not be of interest to others. What else are people using?

[PaladinPete]

Easy Time tracking Pro is what I've used for a couple of projects. There is a free trial version you can check out at URL="http://www.easytimetracking.net/"]http://www.easytimetracking.net/[/url]

Sorry, can't get link to work right.

[LeAnn B]

Thanks for all the suggestions! Looks like ManicTime might be just what I need. I'm downloading now. But also, Phil thanks for the link to freshbooks, I'm going to use it for invoicing!