Easy way to track time spent on projects
I’ve used a few different project management programs, my current favorite is Basecamp. However, Basecamp wants to treat everything as a project and gets in your way if you want to track time spent on tasks that are not bound to a specific project. 
Today, for example, I need to track some time spent on a one-off task for a client. It’s pretty close-ended, I’ll do the work, send the hours spent to accounting and I’m done. Creating a Basecamp project for this would be overkill.
As a software nerd, the thought of just using a stop watch seems sacrilegious so I opted to search for an appropriate piece of software that would allow me to time unbounded tasks.
Enter SlimTimer. SlimTimer is a web application which allows you to quickly create time bounded tasks. Sign-up is quick and (as near as I can tell) free.
Once you create an account, you can begin creating tasks in a tiny (think Slim) pop-up window. When tasks are activated, a timer starts. Close the window, the timer stops. So far this seems to do exactly what I need.
If that was all the application could do then all I did was find a web 2.0 stop watch. The really cool thing is the reporting. SlimTimer allows you to generate invoices, timesheets or more generic reports showing the time spent on a series of tasks.
You can then take these reports, and print them or export them to CSV, handy if you need to send this to someone else.
If you need a quick way to time tasks, give SlimTimer a test drive.
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Thanks for the tip.
By the way I personally prefer http://www.Wrike.com for project management. I can also create tasks which are not included in any project and share with the exact client. I asked about time tracking feature, they promised to deliver it in a couple of months. We’ll see. Give it a try, Wrike is awesome in terms of project management. Gantt charts, email integration, flexible approach to organizing projects is great.
You should try trackmypeople.com, it allows you to easily and fast track your time, and it’s free !
Try the Replicon software (http://www.replicon.com). Outstandingly good interface–very easy for everyone to use. Lots of flexibility and power that’s also easy to configure.
This “free sharing” of infromiaton seems too good to be true. Like communism.
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