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| Summary |
My work have decided to get a lot more anal about booking time against the tasks
that we are working on. Unfortunately, for me this is really hard to track as I spend
a large chunk of my time working on things like helping other teams - so I decided
to create a simple program to track it. Basically, its a more advanced chess-clock.
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| Download and Installation |
To install Timemonitor, simply unzip it somewhere. Personally, I create a shortcut to it in the "Startup" folder in the Start Menu so that it runs automatically when I log in.
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| Options |
 The new task button allows you to add tasks. The task that is currently highlighted is being booked time - simply highlight a different task in the listbox to switch to a different task. The tasks are stored and re-loaded when the application is opend/closed. If you right click within the list you can view the totals over previous weeks. Right clicking also allows you to pause the timer (eg for going to lunch). The window is resizable - the position stored when it is closed - I tend to work with it in the top right hand corner of the screen so that I can see how much time I have spent against each task. The menu obtained by right clicking upon the title-bar of the window has options for minimise, minimise to systray, and always on-top. Time Monitor can be set to automatically minimise to the systray on startup.
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| Updates | Well, I have since left the company that I wrote this for, and so stopped using it as my new employers were much less relaxed about this sort of thing, and were more interested in just getting things done. This is no longer quite the case, and I'm back to capturing time, but into a new system. As such, I've now got a need to use this again, as have a number of my colleagues - so this has had a few updates. See the readme in the zip for the full change history. |