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Figured at least some of my fellow players must do consultancy-style work. I'm looking for an application for OS X that times how long I spend on various stags of a project.

Ideally, it's to be able to track multiple tasks at once (rather than require I finished one before I start the next) - so I should be able to incrementally pause/unpause various tasks as different clients bug me

Any suggestions for a good one? They're are a few on the App store - real cheap, and a few advertise in MacUser, real expensive.

I'd appreciate any info on what you've used and your mileage with it

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a spreadsheet? That's how I track time.

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I use Freshbooks along with a desktop widget: http://community.freshbooks.com/addons/ ... er_widget/

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Al'kabor/Cazic Thule - Lenas

Cadsuane, I think he wants something that actually acts like a stop watch. He goes to work, hits a button that says, "I've started on this project." It tracks the time until he says "Done", then stores the data for later billing. So a spreadsheet might be half of it, but only half.

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Joshore, Druid of Destiny

Aah, got it. I only have to juggle 1-8 project charges at a time, so a sheet work for me.
I actually wrote a time/billing tracker/logger years ago for windows, but that obviously wouldn't help here.

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That's exactly what I posted...

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Al'kabor/Cazic Thule - Lenas

Try toggl.com. It's free and not super-advanced, but has all the basics you could need. And being a website, you can access it from anywhere, not just on your home computer.

TT: if you don't find what you want, talk to me.

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Joshore, Druid of Destiny

Do a search on Macupdate. Surely you'll find something.

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Look into Daylite for project management and Billings for Billing. They kind of work together. Daylite is highly customizable (almost too much so).

Thanks for the responses folk.

Yeah - I need quite precise timing as a couple of my clients charge out my time again to a host of their clients. So, in any one week, I've probably recorded work for 30-50 end clients and some of it may only be 10 minutes or so. The software I currently have (TaskTime) is kludgy, and insists that I 'finish' one task before starting the next.

This sucks because if I'm halfway through one item, then I have to take a 20 minute phone call on another task, I have to END the first task, start a new task, then create a third task to record the remaining time on the first task. And it has no normalising or aggregate feature to fix that.

I could write one myself, but I have like enough to do already =)

I'll try Freshbooks as one of my major clients uses that anyway. I'll let you know how I get on.

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Citrix's Shop Floor does exactly what you are looking for, but that's a commercial product that runs as a thin client on the Mac so I don't think it would help you.

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