Need a Personal Productivity Time Monitor [modified]
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OK, so lately a lot of my time is wasting in procrastination and reading news, blogs, Digg, Reddit, etc. ;P . Problem is that it is now degrading my productivity to a point where I can't afford to go on like this. I want a small software to monitor how much time I spent per project. All it needs is a drop-down to select a project and two buttons, "Start" and "Stop". When I start working on a project, I will select from dropdown and click start and click stop when I'm done. About reporting, nothing fancy, just a list of total time I spent per project daily. :rolleyes: I googled and found a few apps like this but they all are either overkill or have a mandatory thing that if I move my mouse, it start recording time. I don't want any auto-magic / auto-start complex apps, just a small tiny one that can run in my tray. Ahh, I work on Windows and am a freelancer, so I got to keep a watch on me, myself. (BTW, I tried this[^] and it is the worst app :mad:). Thanks, in advance.
Procrastination and Improvisation are my two swords to fight life.
Well you are a programmer and if your requirements are so simple then why not write it yourself? -Saurabh
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Hmm, I think I should procrastinate my procrastination ;P and write myself one. I thought there must be a ready-made solution other people are using. Am I the first one needing it?
Procrastination and Improvisation are my two swords to fight life.
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OK, so lately a lot of my time is wasting in procrastination and reading news, blogs, Digg, Reddit, etc. ;P . Problem is that it is now degrading my productivity to a point where I can't afford to go on like this. I want a small software to monitor how much time I spent per project. All it needs is a drop-down to select a project and two buttons, "Start" and "Stop". When I start working on a project, I will select from dropdown and click start and click stop when I'm done. About reporting, nothing fancy, just a list of total time I spent per project daily. :rolleyes: I googled and found a few apps like this but they all are either overkill or have a mandatory thing that if I move my mouse, it start recording time. I don't want any auto-magic / auto-start complex apps, just a small tiny one that can run in my tray. Ahh, I work on Windows and am a freelancer, so I got to keep a watch on me, myself. (BTW, I tried this[^] and it is the worst app :mad:). Thanks, in advance.
Procrastination and Improvisation are my two swords to fight life.
I actually wrote one a few weeks ago... Not because I procrastinate, but because when I do my time sheets I don't have to guess how much time was spent on a task or forget what I was working on on a specific day.
Harvey Saayman - South Africa Software Developer .Net, C#, SQL
you.suck = (you.Occupation == jobTitles.Programmer && you.Passion != Programming)1000100 1101111 1100101 1110011 100000 1110100 1101000 1101001 1110011 100000 1101101 1100101 1100001 1101110 100000 1101001 1101101 100000 1100001 100000 1100111 1100101 1100101 1101011 111111 -
OK, so lately a lot of my time is wasting in procrastination and reading news, blogs, Digg, Reddit, etc. ;P . Problem is that it is now degrading my productivity to a point where I can't afford to go on like this. I want a small software to monitor how much time I spent per project. All it needs is a drop-down to select a project and two buttons, "Start" and "Stop". When I start working on a project, I will select from dropdown and click start and click stop when I'm done. About reporting, nothing fancy, just a list of total time I spent per project daily. :rolleyes: I googled and found a few apps like this but they all are either overkill or have a mandatory thing that if I move my mouse, it start recording time. I don't want any auto-magic / auto-start complex apps, just a small tiny one that can run in my tray. Ahh, I work on Windows and am a freelancer, so I got to keep a watch on me, myself. (BTW, I tried this[^] and it is the worst app :mad:). Thanks, in advance.
Procrastination and Improvisation are my two swords to fight life.
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OK, so lately a lot of my time is wasting in procrastination and reading news, blogs, Digg, Reddit, etc. ;P . Problem is that it is now degrading my productivity to a point where I can't afford to go on like this. I want a small software to monitor how much time I spent per project. All it needs is a drop-down to select a project and two buttons, "Start" and "Stop". When I start working on a project, I will select from dropdown and click start and click stop when I'm done. About reporting, nothing fancy, just a list of total time I spent per project daily. :rolleyes: I googled and found a few apps like this but they all are either overkill or have a mandatory thing that if I move my mouse, it start recording time. I don't want any auto-magic / auto-start complex apps, just a small tiny one that can run in my tray. Ahh, I work on Windows and am a freelancer, so I got to keep a watch on me, myself. (BTW, I tried this[^] and it is the worst app :mad:). Thanks, in advance.
Procrastination and Improvisation are my two swords to fight life.
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I actually wrote one a few weeks ago... Not because I procrastinate, but because when I do my time sheets I don't have to guess how much time was spent on a task or forget what I was working on on a specific day.
Harvey Saayman - South Africa Software Developer .Net, C#, SQL
you.suck = (you.Occupation == jobTitles.Programmer && you.Passion != Programming)1000100 1101111 1100101 1110011 100000 1110100 1101000 1101001 1110011 100000 1101101 1100101 1100001 1101110 100000 1101001 1101101 100000 1100001 100000 1100111 1100101 1100101 1101011 111111Can you share it, please?
Procrastination and Improvisation are my two swords to fight life.
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Thanks :laugh: That looks promising
Anish M wrote:
but procrastination...
If I can monitor my time, I can handle procrastination. :cool:
Procrastination and Improvisation are my two swords to fight life.
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We are using this one, however its a commercial one. It's advantage is, that it is implemented on several (mobile) platforms.
Wow :-D Thanks.
Procrastination and Improvisation are my two swords to fight life.
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Wow :-D Thanks.
Procrastination and Improvisation are my two swords to fight life.
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OK, so lately a lot of my time is wasting in procrastination and reading news, blogs, Digg, Reddit, etc. ;P . Problem is that it is now degrading my productivity to a point where I can't afford to go on like this. I want a small software to monitor how much time I spent per project. All it needs is a drop-down to select a project and two buttons, "Start" and "Stop". When I start working on a project, I will select from dropdown and click start and click stop when I'm done. About reporting, nothing fancy, just a list of total time I spent per project daily. :rolleyes: I googled and found a few apps like this but they all are either overkill or have a mandatory thing that if I move my mouse, it start recording time. I don't want any auto-magic / auto-start complex apps, just a small tiny one that can run in my tray. Ahh, I work on Windows and am a freelancer, so I got to keep a watch on me, myself. (BTW, I tried this[^] and it is the worst app :mad:). Thanks, in advance.
Procrastination and Improvisation are my two swords to fight life.
I've made one New Years Resolution in the past 30 years, and it's the only one I've kept in my life. That was to put more things off. I haven't got around to making any more resolutions since then, though I keep meaning to. :-O As Newton so elegantly described, all energy eventually ends up as heat, adding to the total entropy of the Universe and reducing the overall organization of things. In a nutshell, all energy is wasted, so why bother trying to get organized? It's a losing battle. Save your energy, and wallow in the glory of being one with the Universe. God designed it that way, so who are we to argue?
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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You're welcome :-) I think there is even a free version with some limitations, though I actually do not have to care about that, as our company has purchased an enterprise license. ;P
Yes, using the free version. Will purchase if it feels good for a couple of days.
Procrastination and Improvisation are my two swords to fight life.