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Super Simple Time Tracker

Would anyone use a super simple time tracker that would give high level reports as well as integrate in with other applications? I see there are many time trackers out there but all of them do so much (i.e. time tracking, invoicing, adding clients, billing, etc)

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    Hi @yaroslawbagriy,

    I'm using Clockify because is unlimited for free (with some paid features I don't need) and super easy to setup.
    I also took a look to Toggl but didn't fully commit to it.

    Personally I don't want to increase expenses on extra tools because we're a 2 person team (occasionally 3) neither to have to use 4 or 5 tools for just managing a few tasks and customers.

    After some research I found out that for 5 users costs easily cound become 300$/mo for just a few tools that don't provide much more flexibility than Mail+Skype+Clockify+GDrive which are for free.
    Literally I prefer to pay this money to a freelance than to have them as fixed expense.

    I'm sure that on big teams/agency level the prespective is another but for individuals/small teams most of them have a similar view.

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      This looks really nice! I think I might switch over to this.

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    I'd be super up for a time tracker that just tracks my time assigned to a project / category / block, whatever. Just give me one big "thing" I can assign the time I'm currently tracking to and get out of my way, app!

    Most time trackers want you to name the current task, project, client, etc. and I get it: They're for tracking time spend on customer projects that need full reports and stuff to be able to bill the time, but if you're working on your own projects, just being able to go "I'm working on project A right now" and having the timer run without asking a single question back would be worth a so much to me.

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      Yeah pretty much exactly what I'm thinking too! Would it be cool to integrate it to some project management software like Jira? Or is that too much?

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        I think there's a lot of things you could do here. Tie into Jira, GitHub Issues or todo lists. Maybe you could even make charging for these "add-ons" part of your business model. The really important thing for me would be: Make these tie-ins something you consider after you've done your work.

        If I can track my work time and then afterwards select the GitHub issue I've just closed in my work during that time: Great.
        If I have to stop my work, select the next issue and start tracking before I am allowed to get back to work, that really breaks your flow and therfore the idea behind this app. It's all about flow & context really.

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          You bring up a great point! What are you currently using for time tracking?

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            Toggl, because it's free and has the least horrendous way of making me answer its questions before I'm "allowed" to start working & tracking. (I just always enter the task "Work" and then TAB over to the projects selection, pick the project I'm working on, TAB again, start tracking). It's website is the least horrible for the way I use it, it's iOS app is okay but the macOS app is a dumpster fire.

            EDIT: I should also mention that I'm using time tracking for motivation & "self-improvement" in terms of working on my own projects. It's rarely client-work that gets tracked that way. Probably important to include here :D

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    I've been using TMetric for several years https://tmetric.com/. It's simple, free and full-featured. With it, I track my own time, plus that of the freelancers I'm working with on a regular basis.

    In case you want to buy a paid subscription, it's much cheaper than its competitors. And TMetric is fully consistent with the concept of price and quality. You get time tracker with such features: billing and invoicing, task management, project management, reports, more than 50 integrations with different tools and services etc.

    I'm confident, this classy tool will help lots of people, not only my :) I strongly recommend this.

    P.S.: I've just renewed my annual subscription as TMetric is providing New Year sale now.

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    Yeah, I use one I friend of mine is working on https://takt.co/

    It's free, has a nice mac menubar app and doesn't do a lot of the extra stuff like Harvest–focussed on tracking time by project and has nice simple reporting. I use it to know where I am spending my time rather than billing/invoicing etc, although I'm sure you could easily look at the report and do that too.

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      What will the price point be? Looks really cool.

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        I'm not sure, I think he's keeping a free tier for individuals / small teams.

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