August 4th, 2006

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Logging Your Hours

Happily, I rarely have to log the minutes and hours I spend working. We mostly quote on whole projects or have monthly retainers, so there’s little micromanaging (and microcounting) my own time. However, if I ever need to more regularly, this script from Lifehacker would be extremely useful:

A week and a half ago, I published a simple script called QuickLogger that logs your work day activities to a text file on your PC. Today I have an alternate version that writes directly to a spreadsheet. Additionally, several readers stepped in and made improvements and modifications to the original QuickLogger script, plus alternate suggestions and a Mac version.

I haven’t tried it, but it looks simple enough. I expect there’s a whole range of commercial products that do the same thing. I imagine every lawyer in the country has one.

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Jessica
August 4th, 2006
3:16 pm

That would have been a blessing when my boss in NB decided we had to track every 15 minutes of our day by hand on paper. Sometimes when you are designing it is so easy to get lost in what you are producing and juggling/jumping around between projects that having to record every 15 mins was an annoyance. Then the boss would get angry when he saw how long a particular project took in relation to what he had quoted the client.

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Aaron
August 8th, 2006
10:39 pm

I liked the QuickLoggerPlus version the best. It’s pretty cool. Thanks.

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