Time Tracking Tools

Users recommend and discuss automatic and manual time tracking applications like Wakatime, RescueTime, and Toggl for productivity and work hour monitoring.

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wingerlang Sep 30, 2015 View on HN

Try wakatime.com for automatic time tracking.

fnthawar Jun 1, 2009 View on HN

Use RescueTime instead of tracking by hand: http://bit.ly/itYfb

kiba Oct 11, 2013 View on HN

An online time tracking tool I wrote.

aneesh Aug 7, 2008 View on HN

Integration with RescueTime would be very interesting!

keso Jan 7, 2013 View on HN

Have you tried RescueTime? https://www.rescuetime.com/

rtcoms Jan 21, 2017 View on HN

This may be useful : https://www.rescuetime.com/

jpindar Jul 7, 2021 View on HN

There's an app and site called Toggl that makes this easier.

eli Apr 11, 2014 View on HN

You can use RescueTime to automatically track how you're doing against goals you can configure like "spend at least 1 hour in Sublime Text"

welder Dec 10, 2017 View on HN

Try out https://wakatime.com for automatic time tracking.

welder Jan 12, 2017 View on HN

Try https://wakatime.com which I built to solve this exact problem... it automatically tracks your time, no more manual timers!