Personal Timeclock is a timesheet or punch clock system that helps you keep track of the time you've spent on your computer. It can also help with client billing. It consists of three programs:
Personal Timeclock:
A timeclock that records the time you spend on different projects. It is very easy to use--when you start working on a project, just click the name of that project with the mouse.
Personal Timeclock Reporter:
Creates reports from the data recorded by the timeclock. Reports can summarize your time or list the details of individual sessions. You can customize the report format, and choose to report all of the data or only some of it. You can also export reports to tab-delimited text files and then import them into spreadsheets, databases, or other applications.
Security Editor:
For use with several employees, the security editor lets you disable features that might allow the employees to alter their time.
There is also extensive online help that includes a step-by-step Tutorial Introduction.
Features:
Personal Timeclock helps you keep track of the time you spend on your computer.
The screen is divided into categories. You can choose whatever categories you like, and as many as you like. Within each category are one or more projects of your choice.
When you begin working on a project, just click the project name with the left mouse button. Personal Timeclock then minimizes itself to get out of your way while you work. When you're done working with that project, just click on the taskbar to restore Personal Timeclock, and click the right mouse button anywhere in the window. Or, if you're going to start working on something else right away, just left click the name of your new project. You can bring up the Personal Timeclock window at any time to see how long you've been checked in.
You can enter a memo when you check in or check out. You can also enter or change the memo after you've checked in.
You've been working on something for a while and you suddenly realize that you forgot to check in! Now what? Don't worry--Personal Timeclock lets you adjust the check in and check out times to fix mistakes like this.
You can set Personal Timeclock to ask you every so often if you're still working on the same project. You choose how often--as much as once a minute if you really want to. You can also set it to do this when you're not checked into a project.
I'm checked in to a project and my computer crashed. Now what?
No problem. Next time you start Personal Timeclock, it will ask you if you want to keep working on that project, or check out. If you choose to check out, you can select the checkout time. You can also enter a memo at this time if you want.
Personal Timeclock lets you enter specific check in and check out times if you wish.
You can choose the font, size, and colors you prefer. You can choose how you want times displayed (total time or just the time since the last check in; all projects or just the current project). You can choose whether or not Personal Timeclock should go to the taskbar when you check in to a project.
There are 50 employees in my company. Can they all use it?
Sure. Each user will be creating their own individual log of their times. The logs can then be combined for reporting; the help file tells you how. You can have all of your users share a common list of projects and categories if you wish. You can also use the Security Editor to turn off Personal Timeclock features that would allow your employees to record their time inaccurately.
Technical Requirements:
Windows 95/98/NT4/2000/Me/XP or later. |
