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Product Description:
TimeSlice is an easy-to-use time-tracking & billing application for consultants, attorneys, graphic and web designers, or anyone who bills for time, or just wants to keep track of time events. TimeSlice has been helping people track time since 1994, when it was first sold as TimeTracker.
Key features include:Ability to automatically track time as you switch between other applications and windows. SpotLight integration. Designate parts of your file to be searchable by SpotLight. Automatic Dot-Mac backup of your data files. Easy-to-use. Click a button to start tracking, click another to stop. Budgets, Invoices, Statistics, and Expense reports. Assign categories, clients, projects, tasks, colors, and more to individual time records. Multi-platform. Exchange files with TimeSlice for Windows. Includes the free application TimeSlice DB for archiving your TimeSlice data. And much more.
Key features include:
What's new in this version:
- Check Updates improved and more efficient.
- Edit Time Record window now has a "Now" button to set the start or stop time to the current time and date.
- The "Find Time Records" sheet now allows the elapsed time as a search criteria.
- Two new menu commands, under the Time -> Select sub menu: All Time Records and No Time Records.
- New optional alert asks if you really want to delete the selected time records.
- New command under the Time menu: Combine Time Records.
- New Auto-Pause on idle preference.
- New preference allows the option of saving the row selection.
- Mini Window can now be resized to hide the total amounts.
- Mini Window preferences modified and improved.
- Mini Window now includes the selected time records charge and selected elapsed time.
- Window Tracking enhanced with new preferences that allows more accurate tracking of time.
- Window Tracking now aware when a window's title changes.
- Window Tracking edit window now allows multiple file selection when adding items to the list.
- Can now set the category / client / project / task for multiple items in the Window Tracking list.
- Can now optionally (via the preferences) log the front app and window name to the Comments column.
- TimeSlice DB now can export data in tab-delimited format.
- TimeSlice DB has a new export preference (include headers when exporting).
- Minor bug fixes, and more!
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.4 or higher for version 3 (Universal Binary).
- Mac OS 9 or higher for version 2.8 Carbon.
- Mac OS X 10.2 or higher for version 2.8 MachO.
Screenshots:
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Main window, mini window, and budget window. |
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Download Links:
Download TimeSlice Version 3.2 (File Size: 2.5M)
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| Overall Rating: |  (5.0) |
Features: | (5.0) |
Support: | (5.0) |
| Ease of Use: | (5.0) |
Quality / Stability: | (5.0) |
Price: | (5.0) |
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Featured Reviews
They broke it, from my point of view. - Version: 4.1, 11/24/2009 11:04PM PST
andidale
With version 4 the developer put the data into a specific and obscure location, instead of it being in a document which you can locate wherever you like as decent Mac apps used to use. So, it will not work nicely and seamlessly from various locations by putting a doc into DropBox as I had begun doing. That solved all issues of trying to keep copies of a file in synch, or working in different files in different locations and trying to put them all together. So, I have had to stick with version 3. And, I suppose, one day an operating system upgrade will kill that. Oh, well. I used the product for over a decade, it was nice while it lasted. I am a disgruntled curmudgeon, I guess.
The oncoming standard in time tracking software 
- Version: 4.0.1, 5/5/2008 09:16AM PST
eburgwedel
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.
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.
Works well if you have another reporting tool - Version: 3.3.3, 11/5/2006 08:22PM PST
(1 of 1 users found this comment useful)
eduweb
I used TimeSlice back in OS9 and found it to be a comprehensive time tracking tool. However, there are two problems I have with TimeSlice 3:
1. If you havea timer running, it hogs 5% of your CPU, even when it's in the background. If you're just running Word or something in the foreground, not a big deal. But if you run CPU intensive apps at the same time, that's an awful lot of overhead to give a timer. Minuteur uses about 1.5% CPU when a timer is running.
2. More seriously, the built-in summary (report) window is not very useful because it won't list tasks by project. It just shows all time for a given project, and then all time for a given task (even if it is across several projets). If you use a spreadsheet or something else to actually generate your invoices or do your project management from the TimeSlice data file, then you probably won't find this a limitation.
Finally, the developer is helpful in some ways-- issued an upgrade coupon to upgrade from the old 1.x version to 3.x. But when i tried asking about the summary format on the forum, I got several "You're posting in the wrong section" replies instead of some actual effort to understand the issue and suggest a solution. So I was rather disappointed by that.
1. If you havea timer running, it hogs 5% of your CPU, even when it's in the background. If you're just running Word or something in the foreground, not a big deal. But if you run CPU intensive apps at the same time, that's an awful lot of overhead to give a timer. Minuteur uses about 1.5% CPU when a timer is running.
2. More seriously, the built-in summary (report) window is not very useful because it won't list tasks by project. It just shows all time for a given project, and then all time for a given task (even if it is across several projets). If you use a spreadsheet or something else to actually generate your invoices or do your project management from the TimeSlice data file, then you probably won't find this a limitation.
Finally, the developer is helpful in some ways-- issued an upgrade coupon to upgrade from the old 1.x version to 3.x. But when i tried asking about the summary format on the forum, I got several "You're posting in the wrong section" replies instead of some actual effort to understand the issue and suggest a solution. So I was rather disappointed by that.
