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A reader asks about tracking time on OS X:
Chris,
So here’s the deal: I now find myself with clients — people who are paying me money to do stuff for them. How cool is that? For some, I’ve set up a monthly set fee, others I’m charging by the hour. But for both, I’d like to track time on a slice-by-slice basis and give them a nice and fancy set of reports on how much time I spent doing what.

For the majority of what I do, I’m doing it right here on the MacBook Pro. So a nice little tool bar or icon on the task bar would be handy. What do you recommend?
Signed,
A Reader

Chris responds with a few time tracking suggestions:
Hello Reader,

Thank you for asking, we’ve researched a number of time-tracking apps and made a handy list of time tracking software at www.timetrackingresources.com — check it out!

A popular time tracking application that works across Windows and Mac is Harvest (but get the widget so you can track time from the desktop).

And there is a Mac Desktop widget called TimePost2 you can purchase that works with a lot of different time tracking web apps.

One more recommendation: Billings. We’ve heard from many satisfied customers of Billings that it is a useful tool.

Use one of those programs until Minuteglass, our own software application, is released. Minuteglass is going to be released by Tornado later this year. It’s a time tracking application (for Web, OS X, and Windows).

I hope that helps!
Regards,
Chris

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