Time Recording easy

Keeping track of your work is a useful activity, especially when you want to improve your workflow. This can simply be done by starting a counter, and stopping it whenever a task is done. With this in mind, Time Recording easy lets you enlist the projects you’re working on and count how much it takes to finish them.

First of all, the application requires no installation, which means a couple of things. On the one hand, you can easily carry it around on a thumb drive just in case your work involves using multiple computers. On the other hand, the target PC’s stability is not put at risk, because no modifications need to be made to system registry entries to ensure functionality.

Before you can start the counter, a new project needs to be configured. Strangely enough, the project selection field is not editable, even though creating a new project only requires a name. Only when at least one item is added can you select it from the corresponding drop-down menu and start counting time spent with it.

Once the timer starts you can’t interact with any other element until you hit “Stop”. In the meantime, the application can be minimized to the tray area so it doesn’t take up any precious desktop space. Sadly, there’s no option to configure hotkeys to start, stop, and pause a timer.

Breaks are not really taken into consideration in the final results sheet, so when a task is done you need to stop the timer altogether. Now it’s either possible to start working on a new task, or check project time overview, but with no possibility to save the sheet to file, or even copy anything inside it.

Bottom line is that knowing the actual time spent on a task can help significantly improve workflow. Time Recording easy aims to do just that, and it somehow manages to achieve this in a straightforward manner. It would have been useful to see a pause tracker, or at least an option to save time overview sheets.