When you work independently on lots of different projects, it’s important to be able to track where your time is going. LogMyTask is a new time-tracking app in private beta (I scored an invitation thanks to WebWorker Daily) that aims to make tracking time easy for both individuals and teams.
LogMyTask has a simple, if somewhat plain interface. It’s easy to navigate, easy to enter tasks and easy to edit them. You can tag tasks, which is handy if you need to be able to track how much time you spend working on a particular project. You can also invite other members of your team to use LogMyTask. Then, everyone on the team can view each other’s timesheets to see what other team members have been working on. Another feature that might be handy for the absent-minded among us is the ability to set up LogMyTask to send out email reminders if you forget to update it.
I like the way the time summary page is set up. The calendar view lets you bring up your times for a specific day, week or month easily, and you can filter by tag to see how much time you spent in total on a specific project.
Thymer, another app we’ve reviewed on Useful Tools, also allows teams to track the time each member has spent on different tasks. Each app has its own set of advantages. For example, Thymer has a more robust set of feature-it also allows you to create to-do lists, delegate tasks and manage projects. Plus, with Thymer you can start and stop a task via Twitter, which is bound to be useful for all of you Twitterholics out there. You can tag tasks in Thymer, too, to create reports that show you the time spent on a specific project.
However, when it comes to being able to see, at-a-glance, how you’ve been spending your time, LogMyTask’s calender-view interface is superior to Thymer’s, in my opinion. In the end, it depends on what you and your team are looking for. If you’re interested in giving LogMyTask a whirl, you can get on the private beta waiting list here.
Our Rating of LogMyTask
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