It’s timing time

Have you ever been doing something without realising how much time it required, even though it would be quite useful to know? I have. Actually, it is something you must keep track of when doing some freelance work (unless you and your client really don’t care).

Anyway, I have been looking for some cool free tool to do this for me and I have found SlimTimer. This tool is fairly simple, you basically make a todo-list and whenever you start working on something of the list, you click the item and the timer starts running. This all happens in a ‘client’ page, which you can simply bookmark (as a sidebar in Firefox).

On the SlimTimer website, you can view all your tasks and see the total amount of time spent per task (which may have been spread over any amount of time).

My only problem so far was that I had to keep my browser open while timing. Even the sidebar in Firefox is not perfect, because it gets in the way and if I accidentally close the browser it’s gone and the timing is stopped. Luckily, this issue is solved by viewing the page in Bubbles. (I guess there must be a Linux equivalent to Bubbles out there somewhere.)