Comments on: Klok – Time Tracking Made Easy(ier)

By: Bethany

Bethany — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:28:18 +0000

Yeah, I love Free, but when I found OfficeTime there was no free that was even slightly in the running – especially for Macs.

And they give free upgrades all the time. Plus a free 21-day trial.

And, it did literally pay for itself that first week: One phone call, that would not have been billed otherwise, was tracked!

How about this, I’ll give you (and anyone reading this who has an appropriate blog) a free copy of OfficeTime, if you then share the experience on your blog. One free app for one post reviewing what you really thought of it. What do you say?

You know where to find me…
Bethany – who can be found @ http://UniqueThink.com
(If you can’t figure out my email address from that, you aren’t trying – I’m sure the spammers have)

P.S. Doug, I’ll leave it up to you whether you want to post this comment, but either way, the app is yours for one review…

By: nullvariable

nullvariable — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:50:34 +0000

I’m still a big fan of FREE

Commentluv is a plugin that parses your blog for the last post you made and then drops a link in here for it. Its pretty cool.

By: Bethany

Bethany — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:57:09 +0000

Howdy Doug:

I keep track of everything, so I know where I spend my time – even when I am working on a flat fee. It helps to give the client an invoice showing what I did and when.

I use OfficeTime.net and love it!!! It has this feature where it works, even if I close the laptop.

So, if I take a phone call and come back to the computer, it tells me how long I was gone. Then it asks if I want to keep those minutes in that project, delete them or move them to another category. Very cool feature, which I can’t live without. It keeps everything straight for me.

Oh, it has most of what you asked for, though instead of Google calendar, it has iCal integration (but bet Google is coming), invoicing and exporting features, and it let’s you share with other computers – Mac and PC can talk with each other!!!

Just a heads up, OT ended up becoming one of my clients after I emailed them and asked for a feature request (which they added to the next release, a week later). By the way, they tend to add features for client requests all the time (so ask about the Google Calendar).

It’s only $47 and it paid for itself the first week I had it, because before that I’d always forget to track phone calls and meetings.

Let me know if you have a question.

And, as Freddy asked, what is Commentluv?

Bethany

By: nullvariable

nullvariable — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 05:22:42 +0000

I don’t necessarily use it for charging fees. I very frequently accept flat rate projects. But its really nice to keep track of how many hours I am putting in on certain projects.

By: Freddy Nager

Freddy Nager — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 05:08:32 +0000

I don’t charge by the hour, since a leap of creativity for me could take 5 minutes or 5 days. I prefer flat fees, retainers, or some model based on results…

By the way, what is Commentluv?

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