Have you ever thought that 24hours is not enough for you? And you wonder there is a thief who always
steals your time because you don’t have enough time to do your jobs.
Spending too much time inefficiently on computer could be probably a
major cause. You may use these applications in this list to track your
activities on computer in order to figure out who is that "thief".
FruitfulTime Productivity Meter
FruitfulTime
Productivity Meter is free for personal use. It
can keep a track of activities you do on your computer. Once installed,
it runs silently in the system tray and keeps track of all your
activities on computer. Then, it shows you a statistic in a web browser
includes the time you spent, the applications you used, the websites
you browsed so that you can easily figure out wasting time and plan
your work more productive.
ManicTime
ManicTime
is a free application to keep track of what you’ve done and when you’ve
done on your computer. It runs as a process in the background and
consumes very low computer resource. While active, ManicTime will
record which applications are open, which files are accessing and how
long these applications are used. This is really helpful if you want to
keep track in detail all activities on your computer.
RescueTime
RescueTime
has several pricing plans including a free option for personal users.
It is a pretty simple application which keeps track of what you’ve been
doing during your day such as the specific amount of time you spend on
an application or on a website. You then may view the statistic by
logging into your account on RescueTime website. The statistic will
show you graphs and information in detail about the time you’ve spent
on your computer. Because all tracks will be transferred to RescueTime
server, you can view the statistic anywhere with an Internet
connection. However, you may feel this is a disadvantage of RescueTime
if you want to save all tracks on your local computer or you don’t have
a good Internet connection.
Slife
Slife
is an excellent application to keep track of which programs were used,
and it is only for Mac uses for years. Recently, Slife is also
available for Windows users. Once installed, it runs as a process
silently in the background of your system and keep track of your
applications usage. One of the advantages of Slife is that you may
create an activity groups to track application by purpose such as Coding: MS Visual
Studio, Notepad++ or Blogging:
Windows
Live Writer, Photoshop, Firefox. In the statistic, you can
easily view by day, application, or activity group.
TimeTracker
TimeTracker
is another efficient application to keep track of your activities, but
it’s just for your browsing activities and especially for Firefox. Once
TimeTracker is installed, it automatically tracks which sites you’ve
visited, and how long you’ve spent on those sites. You may exclude some
sites from being tracked such as your homepage and you may also reset
the counter. TimeTracker will show a tooltip telling you the total time
today, since last reset and since installing.
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