TimeTracker – minimalistic time-tracking
by CyberShadow on Apr.21, 2010, under Code
Starting with a new hourly-paid freelancing job, I needed some software to track the amount of time I spend working. I tried a few time tracking programs out there, but they all turned out to be bloated and clumsy (not to mention not open-source), so I decided to roll my own.
No fancy interface, no useless options. Click the icon to start/stop work. Icon files are purposefully not embedded for ease of customization. Work periods are logged to a text file with a very simple format. You can set the active task using the right-click menu, or a command-line utility. The executables are incredibly tiny, just a few kilobytes (except the report generator, which is written in D).
It will generate reports which look like this:
September 22nd, 2010 on 2:21 pm
Neat and simple! I like it
We developed our own software in the same way to ‘scratch our own itch’. Like you say it’s important to make sure your time tracking software isn’t bloated. See what you think – 1DayLater: web based time tracking software