Three Ways to Track Your Time

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I have been a web developer for the last 14 years, ever since discovering SLIP and PPP with my 14.4 BAUD modem. In that time, I have worked with several different time tracking methods. Whether I was working as a freelancer, or as an employee for technology companies and web design agencies, time tracking was […]

Three Reasons to Track Time Against Tasks and Projects

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The goal of a hosted project management service, like Intervals, is to improve the day-to-day workflow of a small business. A freelancer or creative group will start their search for an online application by evaluating several of them and choosing the one that best complements their already established workflow. But what happens when a creative […]

Spending Time Wisely

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Before embarking on any type of research journey through the web of time management methodologies, we need to define exactly what it is we are trying to manage. What is our time and what does it mean to us? If we skip this step and try to bolt the methodology-of-the-year onto our muddled lists of […]

Valuing Time as a Business Resource

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An interview with Curt Finch, CEO of Journyx, Inc., on why tracking time is a necessary business practice. Here are some excerpts from the interview on task and time tracking, Software as a Service, and encouraging employees to provide accurate data. Why tracking time against projects and tasks is important Well, the most obvious thing […]

Non-work Related Reasons You Should Track Your Time at Work

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We all know that we need to track our time more efficiently at work. Doing so will increase revenues and help us focus more on the important tasks. Tracking our time and tasks in the workplace makes us a better worker. However, there are plenty of other reasons, having nothing to do with your job, […]

Visualizing Tracked Time and Estimating Forward

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When we track our time accurately and efficiently, we establish a wealth of data for analyzing past efforts and estimating forward. But we need a way to visualize this data to gain any insight from it. Tracking our time in a web-based project management application like Intervals gives us a distinct advantage in this area. […]

Visualizing Workflow with Intervals Timesheets

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One of the great benefits to a weekly timesheet is that it offers a quantitative perspective of where your time is going. The timesheet helps you visualize how much time you are spending each day on each project, so you can identify which projects are using up too little, or too much, of your time. […]

Apply General Timer to a Task and Profile Photos

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Today we are launching a few minor updates to Intervals (14 total). Two of them are directly in response to feedback from Intervals users: 1. Apply the General Timer to a Task Tracking time on tasks is the ideal way of tracking time…especially for reporting. This improvement makes it a little bit easier. When the […]