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Time & Manage Multiple Speakers In Meetings With presenterCue Server

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A few years ago, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences introduced a method to let starts giving their acceptance speech at the Oscars know when they were taking too much time without announcing it in an obvious way; they simply played a specific music tune to indicate that their time was up. Of course, things aren't as simple in the real world and trying to get someone to stop talking during a speech or meeting can be a formidable task in itself. Sadly we don’t have n app that’s going to get people to stop talking, but presenterCue Server is an excellent solution available in the Mac App Store for managing speech or presentation times for multiple speakers. It is free and can be used to rehearse timed speeches, group presentations, and manage meetings. Read More

eHour: Advanced Time Sheet Management & Workspace Control Utility

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The value of time is recognized by all those aiming to achieve efficiency and effective resource management. Individuals may track their time utilization against activity to maximize their productivity, while large scale organizations rely on time sheets to keep track of work distribution, status and other managerial indicators to maximize output in the minimum possible time. Keeping these goals in focus, the significance of a user-friendly interface coupled with comprehensive documentation facilities assist managers in making the most out of their time. eHour is an accurate timesheet management utility that keeps you informed about the time spent on various tasks in multiple projects. It supports a variety of languages including English, Dutch, French, Italian, German and Polish. . With features like Excel Report generation, segmented roles and custom-specified localization and currency options, this application promises to add value to your work environment. Read More

TimeGT: GTD-Based Time Management Utility With Cloud Sync & Backup

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Each one of us have our own ways of managing time to get the maximum output. Productivity consultants like David Allens have proposed simple yet powerful methods of achieving efficiency. Through David Allen's Getting Things Done (GTD) approach, we realize that most of us reserve valuable parts of our memory for remembering the tasks at hand and the relevant details, undermining our individual performance. By getting such details out on paper or the virtual space, you can free up your time for more important challenges. Once, this is achieved, thinkers like Eisenhower have proposed methods of prioritization with respect to the importance and urgency matrices. TimeGT is a free utility that lets you achieve maximum output through these useful techniques. Read More

TimeSnapper Auto-Captures Screenshots At Custom Intervals & Plays Them Back Like A Video

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Time tracking has wide scale applications in project management where detailed timesheets demand a great memory. Going back in time helps workers and managers identify 0weak areas that are hindering performance and curtailing efficiency in large scale production scenarios. For strict office environments, administrators can keep a check on every click on employees' systems and eradicate all non-work activities for their betterment. However, this isn't just applicable at macro-level; an individual can analyze the time spent on his or her computer with activity details and productivity insights by rewinding and viewing their tech deeds like a movie. TimeSnapper is a sleek tool that makes doing this extremely easy. It lets you record and analyze activity on your system with the help of custom snapshot intervals. Read More

Manage Project Timings & Earnings With Sessions For iPhone

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If you work freelance, or have to maintain financial records of your work, then things might get a bit tricky when you are working on more than one projects, and the payment for each project is different. There are many good apps available for iOS that will let you maintain financial records of your work, and there are still more which will help you log your work hours with complete ease. Sessions is an app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch which combines both these functionalities, and lets you keep a thorough record of all your projects and working sessions. The app is really convenient to use, and will let you manage your financial records without having to control too many aspects of Sessions. Read More

Flowkeeper: Assign Multiple Pomodoros To Tasks & View Work Productivity Report

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Developed by Francesco Cirillo, Pomodoro is the widely used time management technique that helps users divide the total work into 25 minute intervals called pomodoros (Italian word for potatoes) to efficiently manage both amount of work to be done and total time. Not only does it help users manage time, it also makes it easy to breakdown the total amount of work into smaller tasks, so that they can be performed within 25 minute time interval. After working on tasks for 25 minutes, it alerts users to take a break for improving mental agility. Flowkeeper is a light-weight, unobtrusive Pomodoro application that allows you to keep track of pomodoros as well as tasks. The application operates from system tray, letting you quickly view pomodoros history and currently assigned tasks to complete the work within set time frame. Read More

Goalstacker – List Tasks You Can Complete In Available Spare Time

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Typical to-do list managers help you plan important tasks over a span of days, weeks or months; they help you remember what needs to be done and to prioritize tasks. One slight pitfall of prioritizing is that there will always be certain tasks that might never get done because there were always other more important ones. Goalstacker is a to-do list manager and time management tool for those tasks that never get their turn. The web service allows you to add as many tasks as you want; each task is created with a time estimate of how long it will take to complete. When you find you have some spare time on your hands, you tell the service how much time you have to kill and it will list all tasks that you can get done in that time. Read More

Grafire – Project Management, Time Tracking & Invoicing With 1GB Space

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If you’ve ever fallen in love with a project management tool only to find that the free version doesn’t exactly fulfill all your wild dreams or that upgrading to the paid version just to get that one feature wasn’t as great an idea as you thought then Grafire might interest you. This free web service is…free. Other than just being free, it manages time spent on tasks, multiple projects, clients and lets you create and send out invoices. The interface is extremely easy to use and the service itself is rich in features that could easily satisfy small scale project, client and time management needs. Read More

TheLateJar – Make Tardy Employees Or Friends Pay For Being Late

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Every office has that one guy who is always late, it’s likely he’s the one guy every bad thing happens to like flat tires, traffic jams or no clean ironed shirts. If company policy overlooks that then there shouldn’t be a problem but when tardiness from one team member starts bringing everyone else down, it’s time to do something about it. The Late Jar is a web service that asks you to check in by logging in, if you fail to check in on time, you will be required to contribute an amount of money to the late jar. The service can work just as well if you have friends who are in the habit of constantly keeping you waiting and is a great way to help others realize that time is indeed money.

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Timeslot.me – Divide Tasks Into Time Slots For Better Time Management

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Rewind back to a time without smartphones; people used diaries with hourly timeslots printed for each day to create a timetable. Fast forward to today and you’ve got Timeslot.me. Reminiscent of those old daily planning diaries, the free web service aides time management and lets you enter custom time slots, add tasks to each slot and define when you need to begin a task and what time you should be done with it. You can reorder your tasks by dragging & dropping, the service automatically detects if your new time plan has created an empty time intervals and displays it as free time. Read More

Tomighty Is A Pomodoro Desktop Timer That Helps Get Tasks Done On Time

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Even the most accomplished procrastinator will put in an honest effort in the wee hours or minutes leading up to a deadline. If you follow a similar work pattern where you put in the best of your effort just minutes or hours before crunch time then you might want to try Tomighty, a desktop app that works on the Pomodoro technique to help you realize the value of time and prevent you from wasting it. The app lets you set time a interval and starts a reverse timer, minutes left until time runs out are shown in the system tray, you can reset a time interval, take either a short or long break or interrupt and resume an ongoing interval and customize the time intervals to be as long as you want them to be. Read More

Keep Track Of Work Hours And Computer Usage With ManicTime

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Time tracking applications are generally written to generate report for total time that has been spent on given day, but what about measuring the time you spend on different applications while working on your project work? ManicTime is a superior alternative to previously covered PAM (Personal Activity Monitor) for Windows. In addition to tracking time you spend on applications, it enables you to track computer usage in order to collect and record activities you perform on your system. Moreover, the application lets you manage work hours to keep work and life balance. Along with applications and computer usage, it also categorizes the usage of documents in a separate group. This comes handy when you have to go through multiple documents which are related with your work tasks. Read More

Track Time You Spend On Active Tasks With AlgTime

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AlgTime is one of the most unique time tracking application which takes a novel approach to track time you spend on different tasks. Unlike previously featured time management and tracking applications, such as, myPomodoro, PAM, StayFocused, Ticks, True Time Tracker, and Timesheet Recorder, it doesn’t require users to first create the task list which they want to perform on given day. According to developer, it is designed to be simple with an absolutely unobtrusive UI to let users focus on tasks and not on compiling complete task list prior to track time. Read More

Track Time While Giving Presentation With Trak [Time Management]

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In order to give presentation you should split up the content of the presentation into different sections, so that target audience would take note of all the important points and map them with respective presentation sections. Allocating equal time slices to each presentation section is utterly important to efficiently utilize the total given time. If your presentation doesn’t contain sections associated with time slices, you’d probably fail to keep track of time limit. Trak provides a customizable presentation progress bar on screen to keep track of sections and most importantly the total given time. It allows specifying total number of sections and allocating time slots to customizable segments, so you wont lose track of time which you want to spend on different segments of presentations. Read More

StayFocused Is A Great Way To Focus On Important Tasks, Uses Pomodoro Technique

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Managing time efficiently to meet the tight deadlines is arguably not easy, and one who has to finish tasks on time may get distracted easily. For time-sliced task orientation, you should first lay down a plan of distributing total time into slots and then allocate work load to each slot, so you can effectively make use of given amount of time. StayFocused is a small Windows app, designed to distribute work load into time slices through Pomodoro Technique - an acclaimed time management technique. Pomodoro technique not only helps in managing time but also makes you realize the worth of time passing by, so you can perform the required tasks without getting distracted. Read More

Calculate Total Time Spent On Tasks And Bill Your Clients With Ticks

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Need a simple, unobtrusive, and an elegant time tracking application which also allows you to properly bill your clients? Try out Ticks. It’s a tiny time tracking application with sleek interface to note down the time you spend on multiple on-going projects. The application is specifically created for freelancers who need an efficient yet distraction-free time tracking application to automate the process of billing their clients. What makes it different from other time tracking applications is that it takes just a few seconds to enter project and billing related details, such as, project title, hourly rate and increase in billing rate, to start calculating total time spent on tasks and to bill your clients accordingly. You can quickly add new projects and to make changes in listed project and billing info from the system tray icon. Read More

Track Time Spent On Applications With Time Track [Mac]

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Do you easily get distracted while performing some important tasks or outlining plans to complete a project? There’re certainly a lot of methods evolved in the past which can assist users in keeping their focus on important tasks. Pomodoro is one of the techniques that you can apply manually through stopwatch to regularly check how much time has been spent on current tasks being performed, but an application designed to tell you that which applications have taken much of your time would certainly come more helpful in tracking down time distribution. One such utility is Time Tracker for Mac. The application is quite akin to previously featured PAM for Windows which enables you to view usage timeline of applications. What gets it over the line is its ability to log daily application usage, so at the end of the week or month you can easily track total time spent on different applications. Read More

Toggl Turns Your Time Into Money By Tracking Total Time Spent On Tasks

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Tracking time that you are spending manually can become as hard as the project work itself. Therefore, many users tend to pick up an un-obtrusive time management application which offers minimal controls for tracking time spent on project tasks, but what if you’re working in a team to achieve the required tasks allocated by your project supervisor or client? How would you track down total time that has been spent by all the team members? Problem can get bigger if your team members are working remotely and using different OS platforms. To tackle problem of tracking time in heterogeneous environment, you need one ubiquitous tool which caters to all OS platforms and portable devices, such as, Toggl. In a nutshell, it is a web based timesheet killer which works on all three major OS platforms - Windows, Mac, and Linux, while offering timer apps for both iPhone and Android phones. You can keep a check on all project tasks which are completed, on schedule, in progress, and about to finish, by tracking the time that is being spent on them using Toggl's web interface. Read More

myPomodoro Automates Pomodoro Techniques To Quickly Finish Tasks

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Keeping your focus on scheduled tasks is important especially when you’re working on a project which is reaching deadline. Out of many time management techniques, pomodoro is considered to be the most suitable, as it shows the worth of time while keeping users focus on tasks to achieve the required results. myPomodoro is based on this very time management methodology. It a simple open source to-do list manager which implements pomodoro concept to keep users focus straight on important tasks rather than wasting time. The application developer has kept everything easy, so users don't have to configure many options in order to measure the overall work productivity. Read More