Guides
Guides and free tools
Practical writing about time at work, and two free tools. Honest about what does not work.
GuideTime management at work
Eight methods that hold up, where each one fails, and the statistic everyone quotes that turns out never to have been published.
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GuideTime tracking on a Mac
The three kinds of tracker, what each one has to ask macOS for permission to do, and how to choose without giving away more than you meant to.
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How toFilling in a timesheet you forgot to keep
The order that loses least, the timestamps you left behind without meaning to, and why the blanks are worth keeping.
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How toTracking time without a timer
Why timers fail in one direction and not the other, and the four approaches that do not depend on remembering.
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How toAsking an AI where your time went
A prompt that gets a useful answer instead of a confident one, and why the first paragraph you write is the one that matters.
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How toRecording time in six-minute units
Ten to the hour, where the convention is actually written down, and why rounding every task up to a unit doubles a two-hour day.
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Free toolThe unbilled hours calculator
What the hours you cannot account for are worth in a year, at your own rate — and how to measure the gap rather than guess at it.
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Free toolThe printable week audit
One hundred and sixty-eight boxes, one for every hour of the week. Print it, fill it in hourly, and count the blanks on Sunday.
Print the grid →Everything here
Two rules for everything written here. Anything with a number behind it says where the number came from, and anything we make ourselves is declared rather than slipped in. If a guide cannot be useful to somebody who never downloads the app, it is not worth publishing.
More coming: how to track billable hours as a freelancer, how to record time in six-minute units, and how to set a week’s plan against what actually happened.