NR Time - Powerful time tracker for Mac OS X

Feel the ease of time tracking with NR Time. Log your time expenses in the billing-friendly format with minimal effort.

NR Time for Mac OS X 10.5

Posted: January 12th, 2009 | Filed under: NR Time | Tags: , , , , , | 4 Comments »

It’s an awesome day, really. I just released my first product for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard — NR Time — and it’s available for trial downloads and license purchases of course.

NR Time

NR Time is a tool that makes your time logging completely transparent. Period.

As a freelancer, I always needed a tool that could tell me precisely how much time did I spend working for one client or on one task and what was it for another. If nothing else, the earnings depend on this and having no convenient tool meant that I was stuck with the paper notepad where I recorded the beginning and ending times for every task.

If you ever did that, you can imagine what kind of headache coffee breaks are. You need to record the time when you go out, and then remember to jot the time of return. Finally, the calculation time comes when at the end of the day you juggle with numbers to figure what it was that you spent working today. It gives me creeps every time I think how I lived all these years.

So what does NR Time do for you, briefly:

  • Let’s you enter as many tasks as you like
  • Let’s you start and stop any number of them at the same time
  • Updates the time for each task in real time and shows it in tenths of hour (1.1 stands for 1 hour 6 minutes and is easier to operate with hourly rate)
  • Updates the total for all tasks and displays it in the status area in hours (1:06)
  • Let’s you pause all running tasks by clicking on the notification area icon and resume with the same gesture
  • Gives you an intuitive keyboard controls over the tasks
    • ⌅ – to enter / exit the task name edit more
    • 0-9, “.” – to start entering the time spent manually
    • SPACE – to toggle activity flag
    • ⌘ + N / ⌫ – to add / remove selected tasks

The trial version is fully functional for 15 days. If you find it useful, consider purchasing a license for only $10 (details on the product home page).

NR Time

Give it a spin! It’s a very simple application solving a very simple task, but it saved me lots of silver hair. Hopefully, you will find it useful.

4 Comments

  1. 1 Peter said at 10:21 on January 13th, 2009:

    Congrats – great stuff, Aleksey! Going to try it out now.

  2. 2 Peter said at 10:31 on January 13th, 2009:

    Believe it or not, I am working on (almost) the same app, though in Rails (started as a merb project but converted to Rails after Dec 23rd).

    What I don’t get is: why is it useful to start multiple tasks? For the guys who can read, code and talk to their wife/daughter/… at the same time? :-)

  3. 3 Aleksey Gureiev said at 11:08 on January 13th, 2009:

    Thanks! Yeah, can’t come up with the scenario too, but thought that since there’s no limitation on the number of tasks running, I’d mention it.

    I’m also working on (and actually using for almost a year myself) a Rails app to build nice PDF invoices, track them, enter your working time for clients etc. It is actually in a private beta already while my wife Kate and I are still working on the GUI. If you like, let me know and I’ll send you a link.

  4. 4 Peter said at 15:56 on January 13th, 2009:

    Sure, I’d like to check it out (but I am working on mine as well (with my wife, too ;-) , though it’s in a very early protoype phase so only if you are not afraid of stealing some ideas ;) .

    I’ll send you the link to mine once I put it online.

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