Activity and Time-Tracking Solutions

Need to track your daily activity, track time for clients, or other tasks? There are several options for you to choose from without having to shell out big bucks for a premium software program. Whether you want a simple gadget, a web app, or a full desktop program, there is something for everyone here:

• Toggl is a free application that lets you track time, organize timeslips by clients, tasks, and participants, and offers a reporting feature. To use this program, you list a client, a task, then "toggle" a switch icon to begin tracking time.
• The Activity Tracker sidebar gadget: With this little punchclock, you can graph and log a timesheet of all of your activities. Punch-in to begin and punch-out when finished. The gadget can even alert you if you forget to punch out.
• MyHours is a professional solution that is currently being offered for free. The service, at myHours.com is a robust time management, timesheet, time tracking solution. It lets you to track your work time, projects you work on and tasks you perform. Even better, myHours has a mobile component that lets you do basic time tracking through mobile devices like mobile phones and PDAs.
• Easy Time Tracking: with this downloadable application, you can not only track billable and non-billable hours, you can also track expenses, create invoices, create reports, and manage customers, projects, and tasks.
• SlimTimer: Another web 2.0 app, SlimTimer lets you create tasks and share them with others. You can then run reports not only on your tasks, but also those that belong to your coworkers and/or reportees. Reports can be exported to .CSV, subscribed to via RSS, or emailed.
• 88Miles is a web app that offers real time, on screen timers, time budgets, project & shift tagging, itemized timesheets, and an API you can integrate into your own app or desktop widget. A mobile edition lets you punch in and out from your mobile phone or PDA. The trial is free, but then you need to sign up for a pricing plan. However, the freelancer (single user) plan is only $5/month.
• WR Time Tracker is an open source, web-based time tracking solution that lets you create user logins & organize them into teams. You can then create and modify projects and activities, input your work time, and generate reports and invoices and email them to others.
• Basecamp is a well-known project management web app, but the free edition only offers one project and 2 writeboards. However, the site offers robust tools like to-do lists, file sharing, time tracking, and milestone scheduling, so if you're willing to pay a bit, you have a lot of features at your disposal.
• Tick is a time-tracking application with features like project tracking with RSS, desktop widgets, and reporting and exporting. A free version for moonlighters is available and for $9/month; also, a freelancer version is available which comes with 3 open projects, as opposed to the one you can have with the free edition. Prices for premium versions start at $19/month.
• ClockingIT is a 100% free, hosted application that offers time tracking & reports, milestones & due dates, tagging & search, a timeline & activity log, notifications, RSS & iCal, no restrictions or limits, and an integrated wiki.
• Time Tracker v2.0 is a simple, free time-tracking tool. You can stop & start tasks and categorize them, but this no-frills tool doesn't offer much more than that.
• TimeCard Excel Template: Don't forget you might already have a simple time-tracking tool at your disposal. The Excel 2003 Timecard template helps you track your time, too. It displays the days of the week, and automatically breaks out the hours you enter as daily, total, and total overtime hours, so you don't have to.

There are even more premium programs available, but these listed are either free or very low-cost. Did I miss one of your favorites? Let me know!