Grindstone: measurement of time you spend on a task

If you've ever wanted to measure the time you spend working on various tasks or projects, you should check out this free program.
Sharpening is a list with a twist. This will allow you to create a task list and (optional) the estimated time to completion and/or date, as well as hourly rate charge for payments.But where is it shines is a desktop tool designed to measure the exact amount of time spent on each task: you can pause, resume, or switch targets through a small widget floating on the desktop, or use the "egg timer" widget that can be used to track pieces of time you spend doing something.
The first thing I had to overcome before you use this program was my suspicion that would show that I spend more time than I do admit, loafing around, delays and/or randomly surfing the Web on the other hand I was hoping that the valuation of itself will make me more productive and meaningful (and may have worked).
I say this: grindstone worked better than I thought it would be largely due to the good performance and a good set of tools based on the desktop.
First five six seven things I like about this program:
I could go over all the features that this program has to offer, but instead I will just list the things I love most about it.
Program best management tasks: in General, regardless of the time, the measuring element.For example, this allows you to define custom fields for tasks; for example, "priority" column or the column ' category ' or whatever and will let you group tasks within various views (such as tasks that are due or have your tasks grouped by due date, etc.).Because it lets you define your own fields and groups that you can easily implement any system that you want, such as methodology of GTD (getting things done).
Tool "stopwatch": hovers on the desktop and allows you to pause and quickly launch any task and/or switching tasks via pull-down menu (see screenshot above right and screenshot below).

3. away discover: after you leave your computer idle (defined), the amount of time you will learn about time sharpening stone, allowing you to allocate it to any one specific task, if applicable (see below).In practice, I found this very useful, and this makes the program very useful for measuring non-computer-based tasks.

4. egg Timer: If you ever thought: "I'm going to spend hours in the morning to react and sending e-mail, and then half an hour working on a project x, then another hour, working on a project y is an egg timer tool is very easy for you. This counter that counted down, and over time, allowing you to accurately measure the amount of time.
5. Reminders: this notification in the system tray, to remind you that you are working on such and such a task every x number of minutes or when almost properly or exceeds a certain percentage of the estimated time to complete this task (set number of minutes that "almost properly" means or percentage complete value in properties). He even has a so-called "holic: deterrnet" option that reminds you that you have exceeded the amount of time that you would like to work on that day.

several profile creation: for example, for each client or project.If you want, and if you like methodology GTD (getting things done) you can use the profiles to configure different "profiles" as different lists or different contexts, whatever.
Each of your profiles can have different specific hourly charges (fees that can charge your clients, if applicable), and even different columns or fields that are defined for each profile, you can move tasks (and their histories) through various profiles.
7. installing visit: aka portable Installation is possible via interface grindstone. it will create a fully functional version of sharpening to USB with the ability to export and import data, so you can take it on the road and then synchronize your data back in version when you need it.
Other features of note:
Records: (pie, invoice generation, magazines), time spent on different tasks and other information Autopilot: an option that automatically creates a task based on a program or process that you may be perfect for some people but not for me, I'm afraid.Clipboard paste Tasks: quick and easy way to quickly add a whole bunch of recognizes a carriage-return character in text is clipped, indicating a new task.
Verdict: this is a great program that brings a lot of tools and features together in one place and in a very pleasing way this 5 star "Freewaregenius pick" the reason that ground, it seems that it was created with a focus on useability; all the different features and tools seem like they are there because people use and improved.
If you are looking for management tasks, it will work very well, but I only installed if you are interested in assessing the actual runtime tasks as faras I know it's one of the best programs out there.
Testing version: 2 v2.1 build 5064
Compatibility: Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7.
Go to homepage programme to download the latest version (approx 5 MB).