Stopwatch.Net

Timing your activities is sure to make everything a bit more efficient, because it gives you an idea of how much time you need to invest. This can be pretty useful on the long run, and doesn’t really require much effort. For instance, Stopwatch.Net is a small tool with which to track all of your activities.

You get to spend only a little while going through the steps of the installer, but in order to ensure the application’s functionality, you need to check whether or not your computer is fitted with .NET Framework. There’s the possibility to have the program launched right afterwards by choosing this in the last step of the installer.

A pretty compact window shows up on your desktop when launching the program. The overall design is simple and intuitive, and doesn’t pose any accommodation problems whatsoever. You get to move the window and place it anywhere on the desktop, but it stays on top of everything else, and there’s no option to toggle this.

Needless to say that hitting the Start button puts the timer in motion. The trick here is to be ready to also start your task, because there’s no pause button to resume activities. This means the resulting time also include any break you take in the meantime. Note that simply interacting with the timer and not just the button stops the counter.

As soon as you decide to stop, the last time value is shown in a dedicated section. Now you can start over, but be careful, because only the last timer is saved, and you don’t get to see a history of all events, which is rather disappointing.

Taking everything into consideration, we can state that Stopwatch.Net is a straightforward application with the core purpose of counting simple activities. It stays on your desktop from start to end, with no options to minimize, and only the last session is saved as history.