Time Tracking with GTimeLog
Sunday, July 27th, 2008So I’ve recently started doing some on-the-side contracting work for a relative, so I need to keep track of the time I spend on various tasks.
After some looking around, I decided to give GTimeLog a try, because it seemed to be exactly what I needed without anything extra. I especially like how it has a nice, simple, text-based file format, so I can write my own scripts to fiddle with it if I feel so inclined.
It also has support for launching your favorite mail program to send of daily, weekly, or monthly reports, or export reports as CSV to a spreadsheet program, both of which could come in handy depending on the situation.
I would surely recommend any programmer I know to give it a try for any contract work they might be doing. Well, I suppose anyone I know who’s doing computer-based contract work, really.
The interface looks like the following (click for a larger image):
