Introduction
Thanks you for using Timetrack. Please read this guide in order to tap the
full potential of this software.
Fully Automated Time Tracking
Unlike traditional time tracking software, Timetrack fully automated your
time recording purpose without any of your involvement so that you can
concentrate on your real work.
Traditional time tracking software works in a variety of ways. One type require
you to do dual recording. You record your work time on paper and then key-in to
a central timesheet database daily or weekly.
Another method works by requiring
you to manual start and stop a software timer to record your time spend. Both
methodologies involved the attention of timekeepers and these result in
error-prone or missing billable hours. The accuracy of time recording very
much depend on the timekeepers. They must be conscious of their time recording which can be
easily distracted when they are deeply engrossed in their work.
How Does Timetrack Works
Timetrack works in an innovative way by capturing the time you spend while you
works on your projects. All done silently in the background without any of
your manual involvement. Let illustrate by using a
simplified scenario on how John work on a client project.
| 10:00am | Edit report.doc using Microsoft Word. |
| 10:13am | Create a new document manual.doc using Microsoft Word. |
| 10:32am | Update spreadsheet finance.xls using Microsoft Excel. |
| 10:46am | Do a Google web search using Microsoft Internet Explorer at http://www.google.com. |
| 10:52am | Research using Wikipedia at http://www.wikipedia.org |
| 11:16am | Continue to work on report.doc. |
| 12:00pm | Break for lunch. |
| 1:00pm | Check and reply email using Microsoft Outlook. |
| 1:37pm | Continue updating spreadsheet finance.xls. |
| 3:38pm | Continue editing report.doc. |
| 5:00pm | Shutdown computer |
Say at 5:00pm, Timetrack will have recorded how much time
you have spend on using the various applications with information like the
table below.
Read more on how to view
your recorded work time. Note that, you can always have up to date
information of your work time just by refreshing the data. You need not wait
till the end of day to view it.
| Program | Work Time |
|---|
| Microsoft Word | 2:38:00 |
| Microsoft Excel | 2:15:00 |
| Microsoft Internet Explorer | 0:30:00 |
| Microsoft Outlook | 0:37:00 |
In addition, it will have work time information on each document opened by each
application like Microsoft Word below.
| Document | Work Time |
|---|
| report.doc | 2:19:00 |
| manual.doc | 0:19:00 |
New feature in version 3.0 even help you record the Internet Address of your favorite
web browsers like Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox
and Netscape Navigator. You will love this wonderful feature if your
projects involve a lot of research on Internet.
| Internet Address | Work Time |
|---|
| http://www.google.com | 0:06:00 |
| http://www.wikipedia.com | 0:24:00 |
Categorize Your Work Time
With the recorded work time of every application you have used, you can then categorize them into
proper categories that you have created. By categorizing your work time,
you can better analyze your time spread over different clients, projects or
tasks.
There are 2 ways that you can categorize your work time: automatically using
tracking rules
or manually using drag-and-drop.
Customize Your Reports
Timetrack comes with a very customizable way of viewing your work time in
any relationship you can think of. Most of your timing data will be
presented in a hierarchical relationship. Read more on
how to interpret hierarchical data
and how to select groups to define the
hierarchical relationship of your data.
In additional to hierarchical form of data, you can read
how to setup matrix view on how to
layout your data in a column tabulated format for easy column comparison.
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