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Fast Company is So Fast…They Are in the Future!
August 4, 2008
While checking out Francisco Dao’s blog this morning, I was amused to discover that the date on the post was August 8, 2008. For those of you not keeping track, today is August 4, 2008. I thought it was funny.
Anyway, reading through Mr. Dao’s posts was interesting and I think I’ll be adding his feed to my reader. Here’s a quick screen grab of the post below. (Ahem, please forgive the really bad writing.)
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Time Tracking Solutions
April 23, 2008
I mentioned a few days ago that I started using Punchy Time to track time. Nick left a comment with links to additional sites which made me curious to know what else was out there. I did some more digging and have compiled a short list of theses solutions. If you’ve got more please feel free to leave them in the comments. Cheers! (Note, if you google “time tracking solutions” you’ll find hundreds of sites so please try to avoid linking to crappy solutions.)
Labeled “the essential small business companion” Harvest lets you and your staff track time, log expenses, and create invoices in one simple, integrated workflow.” They give away one free account a month as part of their New Founders Program.
(As far as I can tell) The only application I found that isn’t web based, Klok, “is a tool intended to be used by individuals, like myself, who have a need to track the time they spend on projects, tasks or anything else for that matter. ” It was developed as part of the Adobe AIR Developer Derby.
“Lightweight and Smart. Toggl provides you the most basic features needed for fast and effective time management.”
I kind of forgot that Basecamp added time tracking. You have to upgrade to their $49/month plan to activate it, but if you’re already using this for project management then it is probably a good solution.
Tick appears to have one of the stronger “time is money” marketing pitches. From their site: “Tick gives you the information you need, when you need it. Nail your mark, every time.”
ClickTime caught my eye because of its big name clients - Target, Visa & Xerox. Granted that probably means it’s expensive. Especially considering that I couldn’t find pricing on the site. UPDATE: Morgan just left a comment with a link to pricing - clicktime.com/pricing.
“Eliminate Stress. Manage Success.” That’s activeCollab’s tagline. Not only does it look like a decent alternative to Basecamp, it’s open source and you can install it on your own server. Pretty cool.
Thanks to David for mentioning FreshBooks in the comments. I’ve never heard of this solution before but I love one of their taglines “Escape the tyranny of accounting software.” If you’ve ever tried to use QuickBooks (yeah, because my accounting classes from college sure prepared me for all of the functions in QuickBooks - whatever) you know how true that statement is.
John from Pelago just added Intervals to the list. Thanks John!