Time Tracking & Productivity Blog
Thomas FuchsYou run a business, and your business runs on time. Whether your need to bill your customers, or knowing which projects use up precious...
How tagging can improve your experience
Amy Hoy
Enter your time more quickly, & get more information out of it with tagging.
Here’s how:
- Rapidly describe & categorize entries.
Avoid lengthy & repetitive data entry: quickly classify your time with just a few key presses and <tab>, such as
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, and so on.Rapidly enter repetitive information
- Figuring out: where does your time go?
Run reports on a specific tag or tags to see how much time in a given time frame, or on a given project, is devoted to a certain kind of work:
Visit a tag’s page to see the latest entries for that kind of task:
- Determine your true time investment: billable and unbillable time.
A tag followed by an *asterisk (e.g.
) will mark that whole entry as unbillable (or non-billable, if you’re feeling grammatically correct). This is broken out on reports and on project profiles:
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, and so on.
After years of waging war as an employee and consultant for big (and small) businesses, Amy left the trenches to become a full time Product Crusader. Product strategist and teacher by day, fine furniture enthusiast by night. As a web developer & interaction designer, Amy has created an empire of cheerfully bootstrapped products in the hopes of inspiring others to do the same.