Time Tracking software?

[Kelemvor]

Howdy,

I'm looking for a program that will help me keep track of the things I do during the day at work. I'm envisioning a program that would have buttons for various tasks that I perform and when I being a task I click the button and it makes an entry somewhere. Then when I'm done with that task and start a new task, I click the button for the new task and it creates an entry somewhere and calculates how much time I spent on the previous task. This would continue on tasks throughout the day.

I'd then want just some simple spreadsheet/csv formatted file that I can pop into Excel and see something like

Task 1 8:00 - 8:30
Task 2 8:30 - 8:45
Task 1 8:45 - 9:00
Task 4 9:00 - 10:30
Task 2 10:30 - 12:00

or something like that.

I know I can probably find something among the hundreds of thigns I find at download.com but has anyone actually used a program liek this that they can recommend? And since this is just a trial for me to use for my personal info, I'd hope for something eithet Freeware or Shareware that never expires and just has thing limited.

Thanks

 

[Jonny]

Bump for a question I would like answered too.

Thanks.

 

[tkdkid]

Here's a program I did in about 15 min. It's not great, but it is 'quick and easy' like you wanted. It requires windows and the .net framework.

TimeTracker

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[Jonny]

Cool tkdkid, that's very much along the lines of what I need, but unfortunatley it doesn't run on my XP system. What can I do to make it?

Thanks!

 

[tkdkid]

You need to install the .net framework. If you're doing windows updates, it will already be installed. Otherwise, go here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=262d25e3-f589-4842-8157-034d1e7cf3a3&displaylang=en