Looking For A Software To Keep Track Of The Time I Spend On Each Of My Projects

[yeti]

Hi,

I am a freelance consultant, and I am looking for a small piece of software to keep track of the time I spend on each project. Nothing fancy, just need to enter the name of few projects, click on one when I begin to work on it, click again on it when I finish to work on it for the day, and when I start working on the same project again it will restart the stopwatch. So that at the end of one project I can know exactly how much time I spent on it in total.

Anyone know of a piece of software to do this?

Thxs

[sbk]

nonags.com has alot of freeware --but projecttimer sounds like it could fit your bill

www.nonags.com/get/df.asp?id=3073

[dsys]

I use TR4TS but any of these are good

www.timecompanion.com

Time Reporter for Timeslips TR4TS

Time & Chaos

I find that if I have this kind of software on my palm it I tend to use it more frequently, plus its mobile.

I think Time Companion has a PC version.

[malcolmswaine]

I personally use Microsoft Project - it has some useful reporting capabilities inbuilt for things like time and labour. More of a learning curve, but worth the effort (for me anyway).

Cheers.

[yeti]

The link provided by SBK is Ok, very basic which is what I need.

Thxs everybody

[britmaveric]

MS Project is the best on the market.

[yeti]

Yes, for complex project management, with lots of ressource of different kinds, not for what I need.

[Prakanong]

MS Project is the best on the market.

I think a lot of "Real" Project Managers might disagree with you there.

Primavera and the old PMW (now Open Workbench) were seen as much better. Organisations are usually resource constrained not time constrained if I remember my PM work from a long time ago correctly.

MS Project is much better now though since I was using it and I beleive some of our PM's are installing the server version to tack multiple projects in teams.

[britmaveric]

Dunno used MS Project for many years, works very well. Not familiar with collaboration bit you mentioned, but easily track tasks, milestones ect from team members.

[Prakanong]

Dunno used MS Project for many years, works very well. Not familiar with collaboration bit you mentioned, but easily track tasks, milestones ect from team members.

MS Project fine but when I used it was no good for team work - the Project Server is something that came along after I was using it. Its because of the server that we used PMW from Hoskyns I think it was when I was using it 13 years ago.

I have a request for PM software from one of our countries but I need to evaluate what they need it for because while they are Project Leaders they are not really PM's in the professional sense. - I suspect its to draw pretty Gant charts only

I know its on our IT strategy to implement it for a team working on multiple projects using the server version but at a higher level the top managers use the SAP PM module. I also work on a planning and tracking system from Siebel but now Oracle for Clinical Trials but its much more than a PM application and costs a hel_l of a lot more too.

Open Workbench is free!

http://www.openworkbench.org/index.php?opt...ge&Itemid=1