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Looking for a project time tracker/nag tool that keeps me writing billable notes

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wraith808:
You did know you can affect how TimeSprite groups, right? 



All of those in the window area below are related to a single project.  So I right click, select group windows, and presto- new window.  Similar windows are now grouped into that group also- or in case it doesn't get it, I manually assign it.

Or am I missing something?

David.P:
Yes, I will give TimeSprite a try because this seems closest to what I am after. However I don't even really need this kind of (manual) grouping of all kinds of document windows, since ALL of my projects files' names contain the project ID anyway and should (must) be grouped automatically, otherwise the tool would be a step backwards from what I already have.

What I'd need is A) "intelligent" browsing recognition like "assign all time that is spent on Archive.org in between Project A related windows automatically to Project A" (or ask me if this shall be done), and B) ask me at certain useful intervals if I'd like to write a short billable task description about the last 2 hours or so (for example if you recognize that I have started to procrastinate away on Facebook or Youtube).

wraith808:
Yeah... it won't ask you.  But if you don't need that kind of grouping, then the windows are grouped by titles in the group area also.

David.P:
Actually, if I think about it some more, what I need is exactly a tool that monitors the documents that I am in, and if it detects that since like half an hour, I have started to spend more than, say, 2/3rd of the time in a certain project number related document collection, it should start to ask me regularly what I have been doing there for the last hour.

There was one tool that at least does the "ask me regularly" part but now I can't seem to find it anymore.

Ah, I think it was this one:

http://www.fish-bytes.com/whatchadoing/manager.html

This is also a very good approach:

http://www.businessrunner.net/timesheet/Screenshots/

David.P:
OK for a first step, I installed this:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hostname-in-titlebar/reviews/

This addon puts the entire current url into the Firefox Titlebar -- in order to then be automatically tracked by titlebar-aware time trackers (the only ones that make sense in my view).

Now at least I can track the considerable amount of time that I spend on my like 5 research websites. Since I am normally only working on one project every given day, this web research time also can be assigned to the respective project manually afterwards.

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