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Time Tracking Software User Guide
Thanks you for using our time tracking software. This quick start guide will get you up in using our software in no time.
Traditional time tracking software
Unlike traditional time tracking software, our software 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 start and stop a software timer manually 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 our time tracking software works?
Our time tracking software works in an innovative way by capturing the time you spend while you work on your projects. All done silently in the background without any of your manual involvement. Let illustrate this by using a simplified scenario on how John works on a client project.
| Time | Action |
|---|---|
| 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 |
John's timetable for the day
Say at 5:00pm, our time tracking software will have automatically recorded how much time John have spend on using the various applications with information like the table below. 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.
Time tracking software showing John's work time for all programs as at 5:00pm
In addition, it will have all the work time information on every documents worked on by John, as shown below. New feature in version 3.0 or later, even help you record the Internet Address of your favorite web browsers like Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. You will love this wonderful feature if your projects involve a lot of research on Internet.
Time tracking software showing John's work time for all programs and documents as at 5:00pm
View your work time
Our time tracking software comes with a very customizable way of viewing your work time in any relationship you can think of. Most of your time data will be presented in a hierarchical relationship where you select groups to define the hierarchical relationship of your data.
Categorize your work time
You can create categories and categorize your recorded work time into their respective categories that you have created. By categorizing your work time, you can better analyze your time spread over different clients, projects or tasks. In addition, with proper contextual management, you can quickly locate and relate similar activities.
There are 2 ways that you can categorize your work time: automatically using tracking rules or manually using drag-and-drop.