{"id":2693,"date":"2014-11-25T16:51:27","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T15:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/?p=2693"},"modified":"2014-11-25T16:57:44","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T15:57:44","slug":"time-tracking-with-toggl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/time-tracking-with-toggl","title":{"rendered":"Time tracking with Toggl"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"iu\"At the end of each week I have to fill in\u00a0my timesheet with a breakdown of all the projects I\u00a0have been working on that week. This used to be a though exercise. I checked my calendar for meetings, scrolled through the mails I received and sent and tried to retrieve things from\u00a0my own memory to make some kind of estimation for the division of the hours between all my projects and activities. broken.<\/p>\n

Another problem was that it was pretty hard to remember how many hours I had actually worked each day. Estimating and remembering extra hours in the weekend or in the evening made this even more difficult.\u00a0This method was clearly broken.<\/p>\n

So I started to add entries in my Outlook calendar for\u00a0each activity, but this only lead to a cluttered agenda overview. Also this was not fast and easily forgotten.\"toggl1\"<\/p>\n

And that’s where Toggl<\/strong> came along. Toggl is an online time\u00a0tracking tool that I’ve been using since the start\u00a0of this year. The concept is really simple: Add the activity you are working on and press the Start button. When you start another activity, just add it and press Start again.<\/p>\n

After entering an activity once, you can quickly reuse it by clicking it in the tracker log. You can arrange\u00a0activities to projects, and projects to clients. As I only want to register the time I spend on different projects, and not on the specific activities (creating an impact analysis, meeting etc.), I choose to only use the projects and leave the activities empty.<\/p>\n

When the week is over I now only have to check the weekly report to see what I’ve done\u00a0that week. The report\u00a0gives me a total for each project, each day.<\/p>\n

\"toggl2\"<\/p>\n

Toggl has an app for the iPhone, Android,\u00a0Mac and PC and can also be used from its website<\/a>. It has also a lot of other (premium) features like teams, bills and more reports, but the free version is enough for me.<\/p>\n

Check it out at Toggl.com<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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