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10 Time-Tracking Apps That Will Make You More Productive In 2014. My favorite tools to keep track of my time are, honestly, pen and paper. What I lose in snazziness, I make up for in flexibility. I don’t have to turn on my computer or phone, which means I’m better about recording "off" hours. Since I’m not beholden to a spreadsheet or categories, I can describe my time however I want. However, in this age of apps, many people want something a little more fancy.

Lots of businesses need to keep track of employee time, and so the time-tracking product category is pretty crowded. 1. With this app, you say what you’re doing, start the timer, and stop it when you’re done. 2. Running in the background on your computer or mobile device, the free version of RescueTime tracks minutes spent on various sites or applications. 3.

This free app lets you track your whole life by tapping on your phone to start or stop each activity. 4. Structured to remind you about work-life balance, Eternity divides time broadly into work, sleep, and play categories. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Headspace. Moment - Track how much you use your iPhone. Checky. AwayFind - Mobile notifications for priority messages. The email management solution for Gmail and Exchange. CalmDown App for Mac. Nicholas Riley: Software. Free software I’ve written This page is a catalog of free software I've written or substantially worked on. For the software provided with no included license, I would ask that you credit me when you make use of or incorporate my software into another product; and that you send along any improvements you might make. Bug reports are also welcome. Pester: simple, disposable alarms and timers for OS X Pester is designed to let you set, dismiss or snooze an alarm or timer as quickly and painlessly as possible, entirely from the keyboard if you wish.

Alert options include sounds, speech and Growl notifications. What other people say: Macworld, Wolf Rentzsch, Daring Fireball. Download as a compressed disk image (UDIF), version 1.1b18 for Mac OS X 10.6 and later. Shroud: a sensory deprivation tank for your Mac1 Shroud places a solid-color backdrop behind windows or applications to allow you to focus. What other people say: The Guardian, 1Edge Cases.

Manage a lab of iMacs? NCIDpop AntiRSI ICeCoffEE. Welcome - Ommwriter. Buddhify | mobile meditation app for iPhone and Android. Freedom - Internet Blocking Productivity Software. Repeat Timer Free - Repeating Interval Alarm Clock Timer. Focus Time - Activity Tracker & Pomodoro Timer. Calm.com. Focus booster. F.lux: software to make your life better.

Insight Timer.