Time Tracking
A lot of people are involved in work that requires them to be involved in tracking time spent on a project or part of a project. Lawyers work this way but the software they use is prohibitive for a home user.
Bob Levitus, also known as Dr. Mac is a syndicated columnist and consultant whose specialty is the MacIntosh computer and its supporting software. His consultant work requires him to track time spent on his contracts. In a recent column in The Houston Chronicle he wrote about 3 Mac software programs for tracking time. Dr. Mac says the nice part about these time tracking products is the price. They are free and free is gooood!
Time Tracker
The first of the three time tracking programs is Time Tracker. It allows you to subdivide into tasks and track time on each task. Time Tracker has a menu bar that telss you when the timer is running and also stop and start the timer. The downside to Time Tracker is that not only must you create projects and tasks (a necessity in all) but you must remember to start and stop the timers as necessary and memory can be fleeting.Rescue Time
The second of the three is called Rescue Time Rescue time is a Mac OS10 app that runs in the background. and does track the use of individual programs. It periodically uploads data to the Rescue Time website whre the user has a personalized "dashboard" with the details. Unfortunately it doesn't track documents you have used.
Slife
The third and best of the three not only does time tracking and app tracking, it keeps up with all of the details. It will tell how long you spent in an application such as Adobe Premiere, as well as which files you used and can even track time spent composing an email. Slife allows you to set goals and tracks progress toward those goals.
I am not sure I want to know where all of my time is spent but tracking time is a necessity for some folks.
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