Time Tracking App: On The Job
For keeping track of my work, I use several tools. I use BaseCamp for project management, todos and goal tracking. I use Blinksale for invoices. And for time tracking, I use a text file and a clock. Ugh. It’s inefficient, ugly, and annoying.
I’ve found my solution: On The Job, a dead-simple app for Mac OS X.
The interface is as simple as could be, and it even has a few tricks up its sleeve. I decided to try one of them out last night. In the middle of a job, with the timer running, I got up, and made a sandwich. When I got back and moved the mouse, this message popped up.
Honest person that I am, I clicked ‘Subtract.’ Compare that to opening a text file and logging in stop and start times.
Geeky bonus (1): the invoices can be exported as XML, for parsing and custom display.
Geeky bonus (2) (for me): the developer uses WordPress
