![]() As soon as the estimate expires, Timing will ask you whether you want to end tracking, extend it – in which case you just keep ignoring it – or snooze and pick up later again. Timing does not require you to enter start timers manually unless you want to add a task with an estimated time explicitly. Even if you’re thick, you can use Timing to its full potential. Although the interface is really straightforward and easy to use, there is a bunch of videos and written tutorials available online and if you do something that doesn’t make sense, a tooltip pops up. How it worksįirst of all, the developer has gone out of his way to make sure you understand Timing. It helps you tackle procrastination, increase your productivity, charge your clients correctly, find out what you want to charge them when working on a project basis, and more. Why is it effective? Well, Timing offers insight in what you do with your time, how you use that time and how much time you spend on each activity, including breaks. On the contrary, it makes time tracking efficient, extremely effective – almost addictive. It tracks activities automatically, doesn’t require you to remember pushing a start/end button, nor spend endless time with the app itself to get something useful out of it. Timing’s daily Dashboard where you get an instant overview of your activitiesĪnd yes, Timing delivers on all of its promises. The developer gave me a trial licence for the Expert version which includes every option on top of the automatic tracking and basic reporting – from manual time tracking to the ability to create Filters and having a whole slew of time report templates to choose from, as well as the ability to script the app with AppleScript. With that out of the way, the crucial question, of course, is whether the automation thing is true and accurate. Timing’s activity tracking service does its job with an absolute minimum of resource hogging and – I might add – without ever causing a hang or crash on my overloaded (including with unstable beta software) machine. None of that, however, happens with this app, as I found out during my trial and I have several background applications running that capture a Mac’s hardware and network activity, while macOS’s Activity Monitor did not once report high CPU or memory usage. It’s a promise that also evokes suspicions of high memory and CPU usage, a high risk of software conflicts and spying on your activities even. The Timing app lets you do that without requiring you to spend much time in the timing app itself. So far, of the six time tracking apps I’ve tried over the years, the Timing app is the only one that fills in these needs.Įven if you don’t charge by the hour, it’s useful to know how much time you spend on a project and how scattered or organised your day is in order to determine how much you should charge on a per-project basis and what you can do to become more efficient. We – creators of videos, film, photos, graphics and text of all sorts – like to track how much time we spend on work we do so that we can analyse our productivity, invoice a client the right amount and get an insight into how efficient we are. Timing delivers on its promise to track your activities automatically. Timing is one of those rare apps that have been made in Europe (Germany) to become a big hit.
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