When it comes to time tracking, some of us are lucky enough to work on 2-10 tasks a day. In cases like that, the Paymo Desktop Widget is a perfect fit, you just change the task and click the start button. What happens if you have to switch between tasks every couple of minutes? Time tracking in this case becomes a pain and however conscious you may be, you will stop tracking time.
This is a typical usage scenario for the app:
After you start PaymoPlus, it will record the title of all windows that are in foreground. At the end of the day you will have a list of all the windows you opened during the day, grouped by application (or grouped by hour – section #2) in the section #3. To tell PaymoPlus that the ammount of time you spent in Firefox is related to “Paymo > Development > Import/Backup” you just drag “Firefox” from section #3 over the task (Import/Backup) in section #2. Of course you can be more detailed and “expand” the Firefox node and drag over only the specific entries that relate to a particular task. Once you do that, the entries that were show in section #2 will be uploaded to the Paymo server (backend) as entries and they will move to section #4 (Entries linked with Paymo)
When using PaymoPlus, all you have to do to track your time is spend 5 minutes at the end of the day and match window titles to your project/task structure. Even when you forget to do that, you can always come back to it later the next day (or week) and you’ll still be able to do it. To remind you that you missed some steps, the calendar in section #2 will underline the dates that have items in section #3 that are not linked to tasks.
Main Features :
- If you want to add a description to a particular entry, hold Ctrl while dragging the items, this will display a popup that will let you enter the description.
- You can also link entries by right clicking on an entry and select Link Time With Task
- To add a tasklist or task, you right click it’s parent element and select “Add Tasklist” or “Add Task”
- You can add specific Applications (like Winamp) to the ignore list, right click and select “Exclude Application”
- If the Project/Task structure has changed on the server, you can click View > Refresh Projects
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