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.