The Benefits of Time Tracking

Time tracking is usually a dreaded task by the people who need to do it. Lawyers, accountants, software developers, professionals need to know what they spent their time on.

The reason it's disliked is that it's difficult to do until Time-Creator came along.

There are some subtle advantages to tracking your time:

• You can identify time wasters
• You can make better estimates if you know how long similar tasks take
• A program can check if you're doing the right tasks to help you achieve your goals
• You can better balance your time by knowing that you're spending too much if it on one project
• You can be warned if you're taking too long on a task

Now time tracking isn't that easy but Time-Creator has the following features to help you effortlessly track your time:

• Auto-tracking.- Track based on the Window you are using or Excel sheet you;re on
• Track from a button press - Track time based on pressing a button that performs a task (Button Bar)
• Track from an alarm - Track your time when an alarm pops up
• Track from your to do list - If the task is in your to do list or on any cell just press ctrl+T and you're tracking it.
• Time Adjustments

These are just a few of the benefits. Try the software at http://Time-Creator.com to see how time tracking can help you.

Should I build an Excel 2000/2003 version?

As I build Time-Creator, I'm wondering if I should make the software work on Excel 2000/2003. The first requirement is that you need a copy of the software and I have one on an old laptop.

The second is will there be enough customers that use this version to make it worthwhile?  I've started on making my program compatible but then realized it's taking away from my main focus.  I could always come back to it.

As I'm working on it I'm finding a number of compatibility issues with the VBA code I'm writing using Excel 2010.  The biggest ones are:

•  Ribbon isn't available in the previous versions
• Callbacks don't work 
• Sort command issues
• New bugs introduced by changing code to support Excel 2000

I've met my first goal to get out a version of Time-Creator that user's can download. My second goal is a bug free version and third is a version that's easier to use.  The Excel 2000/2003 version will have to wait unless I hear back from lots of users who want it.

Though, it's very tempting as I've spent around 5 hours already on this I may try to get out a version.

What version of Excel do you use? Should I build an Excel 2000 compatible version