Author Topic: Recomend a Time Managment App?  (Read 1677 times)

BrooklineBiker

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Recomend a Time Managment App?
« on: December 03, 2016, 11:17:42 AM »
Hi everyone,
I'm interested in getting some personal time management software. Ideally, it would be able to do or be all of the following:
-Free
-Usable on iPhone, cloud, Windows computer on or offline, Apple computer on or offline
-Not a memory hog
-Allow calendaring & some basic project management
-Allow me to see on a daily, weekly & monthly basis where I'm spending my time (e.g., 4 hours bicycling this week)
-Allow multiple categorization of activities (e.g., if I spend 4 hours bicycling to the grocery store, that could be 4 hours bicycling & 4 hours of shopping).
-Ability to click a radio button when I start a task so I know how long I spent doing it, as opposed to just how long I allocated/projected to do it. So if biking to the grocery store takes 1 hour, as opposed 30 minutes, I could track that.
Can anyone recommend something that would do the above?

HenryDavid

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Re: Recomend a Time Managment App?
« Reply #1 on: December 23, 2016, 10:03:50 AM »
Luddite suggestion: just use a paper notebook.
How accurate does this all have to be?

Ebrat

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Re: Recomend a Time Managment App?
« Reply #2 on: December 26, 2016, 12:36:43 PM »
Toggl does all of that except the calendaring and project management stuff (although the paid version might).  Something like that, that's made for tracking billable hours, etc., would probably work.

stash-lite

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Re: Recomend a Time Managment App?
« Reply #3 on: December 26, 2016, 05:55:22 PM »
I have experimented with a few and would recommend TSheets.  We implemented this across the small business I work at and it has been working really well.  It is free for an individual user.

The iPhone and android apps work very well, on a mac or pc it is web browser based.   We don't use the scheduling feature so I can't speak to how well that works.    The one feature you mentioned that I know it doesn't support is offline mode - you do need an internet connection to enter time.

Hope that helps!   If you don't like it or it seems to businessy/corporate, "hours" and "yast" are two other ones I thought were alright but not quite as good for the business as tsheets.

Stan