TimeSlice - 4.5

A few weeks ago I had to find a new time tracking software after switching from Windows to Mac. After I had tried, or at least looked at, almost a dozen different solutions, I stumbled over Time Slice 3, which was the latest official version then. I kind of liked it, but then 4.0 and a bit later, 4.0.1 were released.

What can I say? Not everything is perfect yet, but it is as close to a perfect time tracking software as you can get today. I've been working with TS for six weeks now, and I am very happy with it. It took me a little to see how it all works, a little more until I was set up, but now that I am, it works fast, effective and hassle free.

Many of the nice features you can find in other time trackers, too, but I haven't seen all of them in one piece of software:
- templates, that make different sets of settings accessible at a mouse click
- an application window tracker, that records the time you spent working with certain applications
- the possibility to pause and restart time records in order to keep the number of records low
- spotlight-type searches where ever you need to find something within a list
- filter presets that allow you define rather complex filters to be used in both tracking and reporting views
- a settings dialog that allows you to tailer almost everything to almost any need
- dozens of more features that I didn't even have the time to look at

The reporting and exporting tools do the work, although I know that the author is busy adding functionality there, which is good, since I guess that some folks might miss some detail here and there.

There is a very active Google Group for beta testing - the betas are also publicly available. The author is taking comments seriously and obviously working hard: today, the latest 4.0.2 Beta 9 already has a whole new set of features that I really like.

I personally have found my time tracker and am looking forward to oncoming versions.

I use TS in a law office setting. TS is wonderfully flexible. I found that it can be customized to exactly fit the way I work and the way my clients want their work reported. To take full advantage of TS’s power requires some effort. Help is via the Menu or contacting the developer. I wish there was more well developed documentation in PDF form. TS is not entirely intuitive, at least to me, and I continually feel that I am missing something. The best part is that you get more than a useful application, you get support. Bill Modesitt is wonderfully customer oriented and responsive. He seems to be at work constantly trying to refine the application to the needs of his customers. This application, with such support, is a value deal.

Timeslice was the first shareware app I ever bought, some 12 years ago. Since then, both the software and its author's support have been indespensible to my business. I suspect most users breathed a huge sigh of relief when ownership reverted to Bill - since justified by the worthwhile improvements he's been making.
Use of any time billing app is subjective, but this must be just about the most intuitive, flexible, stable one there is - and easily the best value for money.

to see updates coming out after move from C&G. Have always enjoyed TimeSlice's simplicity and haven't been able to find anything better. So many other variant apps seem to over-design and complicate such a straigh forward taks.

Thanks William.

Back in care of Maui, last update took care of all bugs that hade been there for to long with C&G.