This month, Michael Reed is keeping a strict eye on himself and trying to improve his work efficiency by investigating time-tracking applications.
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Michael Reed says he’s spent 74.5 hours writing about Linux so far this year. He’s full of fascinating facts like that. HOW WE TESTED… We installed each of the timetracking applications on a desktop PC running an up-todate Linux Mint installation with Xfce as the desktop. Where double-checking things such as installation issues was needed, we also installed on an Ubuntu 23.10 machine.
We used the time trackers while carrying out our work to see how easy to use they were on a day-to-day basis and to see how useful the activity logging was. This included applying automatic tracking features where available.
We tried to get into the more advanced features where extensions and plugins were supported on a particular piece of software.
Once we had some recorded data that we could play with, we explored the reportgeneration possibilities. Pretty charts, where available, were appreciated.
Finally, once we had the Linux-based software up and running, we investigated the possibilities for moving between machines and environments while continuing to track our time.
This month, we’re examining five of the best time-tracking applications T available on Linux. These are tools that are useful to freelancers, office workers (with a paranoid boss) or simply people who like stats and want to know how they a
