As you can see from independence, when you become a freelance, you have to manage your time, money, and feelings, and it's all up to you. You can also
If you spend such a day alone, you may find yourself overworked, lazy, or having trouble controlling yourself, and many people get stuck in pots.
In such a case, a time tracking service developed for freelancers is useful.
The purpose of these services is:
- Project time
- Cost against time
- Analysis of time spent
You can manage such things.
I would like to try out such services and summarize their comparisons and impressions.
Cotogoto
CotoGoto is a new service that combines the mechanism of time tracking service and the mechanism of mental management. Although it can be used free of charge, it can be aggregated and managed on a project or work site basis, making it a freelance service. Moreover, by linking with the artificial intelligence of the smartphone, it also analyzes the start and end and motivation from the conversation, so it is easy to continue having fun and it is a very convenient service. It is a little push. ← Own production
Timely (English)
Timely is a tool that allows you to record at your own pace without being pushed by the act of time tracking, and the environment that can be seamlessly operated with multiple devices such as PC, smartphone, and Apple Watch is prepared.
Rather than measuring the time like a stopwatch, you can register your own work time in a self-reported way, so it is recommended for people who want to manage time loosely.
Harvest (English)
Harvest is a time tracking service with sophisticated features and a very sophisticated interface. For time management, clients for Windows Vista, Yahoo! Widgets, and Mac OS X Dashboard are also available. It has also been announced recently that time management using Twitter has become possible.
Instead of high functionality, free accounts are limited to one project and SOLO accounts with 20 projects cost $ 12 per month. Given the time I can manage, I don't think it's too expensive, but it might be okay to get a feel for the above two.
Toggl (English)
First of all, if you want to experience time tracking, I think it's better to start from here. Toggl's interface is similar to that of Google Notebook and can be broken down into project tasks. The time management window that pops up and can be used to monitor time for the entire project or for individual tasks, and the results will be immediately synchronized with the home page of Toggl.
People who use Windows also have a desktop client. It's a generous service where you can use it for free, though the number of project tasks is unlimited. If you want to set the hourly wage and calculate the billing for each task, there is a paid service of $ 5 per month. There is also a smartphone w
Tick (English)
It doesn't change much in terms of functionality, but I feel that it is more difficult to set than Harvest. Like Harvest, Tick can set "assigned time" for projects and tasks and work with time, but I think it has a more intuitive interface than Harvest. Also, the integration with BaseCamp is very good as Web2.0.
Tick also has Yahoo! Widget and Mac OS X Dashboard clients, which are also easy to use. Free accounts have an unlimited number of tasks, but only one project. The cheapest $ 19 / month plan allows you to manage 10 projects.
Clock It!
Clock It! Is a service that not only manages tasks, but also allows you to check how much time each task is spending. It seems to be the same service as Toggl, but it may be good because there are few time tracking services in Japan.
SlimTimer (English)
Since it's in English, it's a bit hard to use, but SlimTimer also manages tasks in the popup of the browser and can measure the time for each task, but it is a list of only tasks compared to Toggl. I think it is easy to see.
Instead of having a set of projects that enclose multiple tasks, you can add tags to tasks, so even if the number of tasks is large, you can manage tasks easily.
SlimTimer also has the ability to share tasks with other users so they can be used by teams as well. That's why you can see information such as how many hours your peers spend on tasks.
It used to be famous, but the UI is old in this era.
I did various research, but since there are many things that are only for time management and many are made overseas, I think it would be nice to come up with a convenient one made in Japan. In that sense, I also made a tool for time management and motivation management, Cotogoto That's a good idea. Although there is a thing that I made it.