TimeSheet is a Time Sheet program to keep track of what you are doing during your working day at the computer automatically. It is aimed at people ...
- Who have to fill out a time sheet for management
- Who have to analyse how they spent their working day
- Who need to charge their time to one or more customers
- Who need historical data to help them estimate times or costs for new jobs
TimeSheet runs in the background all the time (the installation program installs it in your Startup group, to start automatically when you login to your computer). Every minute, it records the name of the active window in its database, giving you a complete record of what you did all day. The name of the window usually includes the name of the program which is running, and the name of the current document.
By itself, all this raw data would be overwhelming, but TimeSheet has facilities to allocate windows to jobs. Once a window is allocated to a job, TimeSheet accumulates all the time spent in that window, showing the total against the job. You can even accumulate the times for different jobs together, by allocating jobs to other jobs in a tree structure.
Some people find they work with hundreds of similarly-named windows, so TimeSheet provides facilities to recognise windows using partial names, so they are consolidated automatically.
TimeSheet also has facilities to print or export the raw data, or summaries of it, in a format you can define yourself. You can print a summary time sheet suitable for handing to management, or including with your invoices, or you can go into full detail, perhaps exporting all the raw data to a database for analysis.
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