Which tools do you use to manage your work and analyze the time spent on tasks over the week?
Elif Duran
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Do you take notes manually, or track time with tools?
What about the analytics that you receive?
Do you get actionable insights with respect to what you gave?
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Cat Hicks@cat_hicks
Been a long time user of
RescueTime and love it as it does all its tracking in the background.
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Knowing how much time you and your team spends on tasks is a very important thing. Choosing the appropriate task management and time tracking tool, you will see who worked on what task and for how long, up to minutes. Try GanttPRO (https://ganttpro.com/) - it will assist in tracking your own time and the time spent on tasks by all your team members. Start the timer in real time or log it afterward.
Pitchery
I don't time my tasks, but i do track them on my to-do list in Evernote (old school alert!). I have heard some good things about Centered and Focusmate - haven't used either personally.
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@swapdp_01 One of the essential thing is the to-do list and prioritization, agree! I use Notion for it.
I have used Basecamp and Trello and now I'm using Clickup.
@elifduran totally. everything else does not matter that much to me.
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@elifduran it's a pretty big app. the parts I'm loving is how easy it is to manage your tasks and subtasks, you can change status of a group and individual task, you can drag and drop them inside the task group or move it to a different group. I use tasks and documents, and that's about it.
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Teamwork Project Management tool and Click Up
I would say use google sheets because it's free and second you are getting time to act on some tasks like typing the to-dos in the sheets so your productive again
TMetric Time Tracker
I use TMetric. Thanks for sharing your tool, will have a look!
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@soylakate can not waiting to hear your feedback!
Lasting Dynamics Newbie Academy
Apple Calendar is enough for all.
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@umut_sonmez does it give you charts for analysis?
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@elifduran Who said that I need charts for analysis? :-)
Hey! I've been using Flowace to track time spent on each task. It's very automatized!
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@martina_hackbartt I used some auto-trackers but did not hear Flowace before, will take a look at it.
Propertizer
ClickUp, Notion, and pen and papper
I use a very simple method. I use kitchen timer to split work into 45 minutes sessions. I have a sheet of paper on my refrigerator. On this paper I have a table where rows are days of the week and columns are projects I am working on. After each working session I put a cross in the corresponding project cell. This helps me analyze my time spent on tasks over the week.
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@georgy_nemtsov very interesting Georgy, if it works for you, why not 🚀
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I'm about to create a new tool, which tracks Git history. Will probably be hated by all the developers.
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@bernard_bado haha probably :D
Idukki
I use google sheets
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We use Harvest time tracking in our agency... It's pretty simple but gets the job done and can integrate with Asana, Basecamp etc.
The dream would be to not have time sheets at all and just price based on the value of the output, not hourly rates!
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@mark_campbell_outlign Our aim is to create the simplest work management tool that will end up you to work in a healthy environment, and finish the work before sunset :)
We mean, seeing burnout before it is too late, or remind to have a break when you are working hours at the desk.
@elifduran thanks for the reply... I definitely love the goal and we've always aimed to run an agency without the usual crazy overtime expectations placed on staff... so getting out before sunset is our goal too.
I use Notion for keeping track of basically all business organization and then I use ParagraphAI to save time on write ups and tedious writing tasks
I use Clickup a lot!
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@abid_unnisa Which features you are into for Clickup?
Pen and paper!
I tried all sorts of digital tools to keep track of time. However, I realized that the mere process of opening those applications took my attention away and lead to further distraction. Now I use a good old diary and pen to keep track of my time, write down my thoughts and plan things out
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@sherzod_khoshimov You can track your time by pen and paper, but what about the insights that you gain? How you can analyse the whole picture?
Further
Well, I think I am in need a tool for that as I've realized I don't track how much time I spend on a task at all. Subscribed!
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@lara_tankal Thanks Lara!