Now it's the end of the week or month and you have to write that status report or put in your billable hours and it's uh-oh. What the f@#k did I work on . I was here late but I was so busy I don't remember.
How about your employment review. Will you even remember what you did over the past year.
A tool like Time-Creator can help you in a number of ways.
First it integrates your to-do list and time tracking. You create your to-do list in Excel and then can easily track your time from any cell by just pressing Ctrl+T keystroke (the T is for tracking).
Second, it's easy to get your tasks to your to-do list because of the button bar shown below
The (X) button above will take you right to your to-do list. Time-Creator will also support a shortcut key combination to bring up your to-do list directly.
The Button bar has a small footprint and is known as an "Always on top" window. This means that other windows can't block it from your view. In the window you can see what you're working on and for how long.
You can see exactly what you're working on and for how long. As you use Time-Creator all time gets tracked to the "Log" Sheet.
Not only that you can easily track interruptions by double clicking the task, where it says "TC -Webpage" in the picture above. The button bar will show "..." (three dots) in the button bar.
Now you can replace these ... with the task that interrupted you. Just select any cell on the Time-Creator spreadsheet and press Ctrl+R (R for replace) and that task will be tracked.
If after the interruption you want to get back to what you were working on you can press the "Re" button (4th one) on the Button Bar to Restart your previous task.
Time-Creator can also deal with the case where you missed tracking a task. Just press the "Mi" button (10th one above) and the Missed dialog will display with the current selected item on the sheet.
You can also press the "T" button (7th one) which brings you to the Log sheet and allows you to manually modify your time.
All of these function are also available from the Excel Ribbon.
There's more. You can set up alarms say to Call client at 10 am. and when the alarm pops up, just "Accept" the alarm and your time is being tracked.
Time-Creator also can also track your time via a button on the Button Bar or auto-track based on what sheet you're on or Window you're on.
In future version you'll be able to import your time into the time system you use or even generate bills to clients.
I'll be posting a video to see how you can easily track your time with Time-Creator. You can download the spreadsheet from http://Time-Creator.com/download.html, and best of all right now it's free.
