Reports show how you allocate your time between various apps, websites and categories of tools as well as tell you how productive you were and if you've achieved set goals.
Starting out with RescueTime is as easy as making an account and installing the software. It really is pretty simple and does not take much time at all.
Someone tracks their time to extract value from that: usually looking to increase productivity. And I only archived that with the active time tracking (versus the passive automated way).
In the active way you must manually click the timer to track the time. More than that: you must provide - again, in advance - what are you going to do. You are committed to it in advance. It's an active process which, being that, has repercussion in your time approach.
Here is the problem with an automated system: they get the data. Nothing else. You are not check it later and reflect about it after the first couple of days. I don't know about you but I have been there: weeks, months of data. Zero reflection. No value extracted.
Obs.: Toggl does have automated tracking resources as well. I don't use them.
The stable version of Toggl on Linux installs as a Chrome app thus Chrome has to be installed on the machine and run (it can be run as a process in the background). A native client is in the works, but it's still in beta.
Your timer will work even when you aren't connected to the Internet. Screenshots, activity levels and time recorded will be uploaded whenever you reconnect.
Many other time tracking apps allow for free users under a certain team size and for personal use, Hubstaff does not allow for this and only has a limited 14 day trial of the software before one needs to pay a monthly fee that starts at $5 a month for the lowest package.
once a users day is finished they can go through the history of the app to pick and choose what tasks are worth keeping for time tracking of the day. This makes it easy in the sense that there is no manual tracking needed to be done, everything is recorded and then can be filtered down to the users work tasks.
Timing has a pretty limited use for a paid app as it only works on one Mac device. There is no cloud sync to get the schedules synced to another device. There is also no billing built into the app.
The dock icon will change color depending on what you are currently doing, acting as a reminder to get back to work when you've become distracted. You can also set goals, and in the status bar you will see a percentage of how close you are to your daily goal.
Qbserve can determine the difference between productive and distractive activities. It doesn't use a static algorithm either - it will read content page-by-page to determine whether or not it is productive or not. this allows certain chats to count as work, and other chats to not count, even if you are using the same chat service for both.
While it's good that there is a 10 day free trial, 10 days isn't very long. A longer trial would allow for better judgement of how much more productive the software made you.
Now it becomes very easy to set up vacation policy, quickly send requests for days off and obtain permissions, thoroughly control missed workdays, easily manage balances
Everything in TMetric is simplified for user convenience. You can easily track how much money you earned working with your clients. This feature gives you a perfect overview what clients give you the most income.