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Requests for applications or tools for the efficient use and control of the time in specific tasks or activities with the purpose of raising productivity

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Time calculator - a tool to compute the days between two dates

I frequently need a tool to calculate how many days from a date to another, for example from 27 April 2016 to 18 July 2016. Are there tools for Windows or for OS X?
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Android app for personal time tracking with projects, tasks and timers

I'm looking for Android application on smartphone. Personal usage. It should allow easy time management on multiple "project-tasks" basis. Requirements: multiple time/activity entries assigned to ...
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Does an application exist that can make work schedules based on availability of employees?

I work at a place where approximately every 2 months our supervisor sends out a list to the employees with all shifts of the coming 2 months that need to be filled. We then e-mail back a list of ...
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A GUI program to add/substract dates in Linux

I am looking for a GUI program that runs on Linux and has a feature similar to Microsoft calculator to add/substract days, and compute durations between dates in (days, months, years, etc.). To get an ...
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Is there an app that can read the clock out loud on a smart TV?

I just bought a smart TV with Android for a blind person. Now, he can listen to audio and songs on a flash drive or even from youtube. I would like to install an app that tells him the time every 15 ...
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Uptime tracker for linux

I use PC On/Off Time for Windows. It reads the system's boot/shutdown events from the system log and displays them in a nice GUI: As a side note, I wrote a PowerShell script (Windows only) that does ...
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Free and standalone application for projects time-tracking

My software development team is looking for a very simple time-tracking/timesheet app, with the following requirements: Free Possibility to define multiple projects Basic, clean calendar interface ...
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Time-tracking app with automatic classification

I'm looking for a time-tracking app with automatic classification. In most time-tracking apps, I have to tell the app that what I'm doing (i.e. task) and where the task should linked to (e.g. project, ...
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Web app to keep another person up-to-date with work I do

My research advisor has asked me (and I think it'll help me focus too) to write down what exactly I did and how many hours I've worked on my thesis every day. I was looking for some kind of online-...
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Windows 7 alarm clock

I'm looking for a Windows 7 alarm clock with: An alarm that I cannot miss, even when I have been away from the computer; I guess that leaves only an always-on-top dialog. No presence on the desktop (...
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Project timeline whose events can be moved to a new date directly from the timeline (date changes according to position)

I am interesting in finding a project timeline software that has an interactive visualization of the actual timeline. This means that if the date of a certain event has moved, you can just click+hold ...
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Which free program(s) for Windows can show how much time you spent today on each application?

I don't think there's any native solution for that on Windows and I hope there's a free solution out there.
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Any free open source Space management software?

I'm looking for a web app to be able to control who is booking the meeting rooms in a small office. Nothing too complicated, just to select the date and time range, to describe the purpose of the ...
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Pomodoro app for OSX, that can be downloaded outside the App Store

In order to be more productive and reduce the risk of RSI, I need an app that reminds me to take regular breaks. I used to use Be Focused and I liked it a lot: simple yet effective interface non-...
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Combined project management and time tracking with nested categories

A while ago, I have been researching time tracking applications. While there have been many choices, most have had very limited features. Particularly, most have been lacking support of categorization ...
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Looking for suggestion about Time block style C# libary ( Eg: Google Calendar style display )

Preface Need a library to display time block ( Eg: stylegoogle calendar ) but I found nothing.. Search Effort Following keywords are searched on google, but it's hard to find a valid result because &...
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Recording Screen Time for Linux

I want an application that can record my screen time (like screen time in macOS). It should be able to show me how much time I have spent on each of the applications I have been using. I have found ...
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Todoist alternative with time budgeting

Currently I currently use: Google Calendar to track things that take place at a specific, predetermined time Todoist to track things that are due at a specific time, as well as activities that I ...
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Simple GTD app with priority matrix and home widget

(This is not the duplicate of GTD Android App and GTD web or cross-platform app.) I'm looking for a GTD app with following features: Home widget which accepts single tap activity to mark a task: ...
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A time limit/goal tracker on application usage for Windows?

I need a Windows application that can limit my time on a group of applications - eg video games, youtube, facebook etc. Furthermore I want to be able to set a goal on the total hours of work ...
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Webapp to convert all dates in an unstructured text to a different timezone

Is there a webapp that could convert all of dates/times in a text? For instance, I received an email like this: We could talk on Wed 5/25 at 1-3pm, 5-8pm, or 10-11:30pm. Or how about Thu 5/26 1-...
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Digital signature software with mobile access

I'm looking for ideas how to resolve a business need for digital signatures. For context, I'm an Excel / Access VBA developer with little experience in digital signatures other than the solutions ...
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Time tracking software with image links

I'm looking for a time management/calendar software (can be a desktop application for Windows, or a web app) mainly for projects that has the following features. 1) Each project has its own column on ...
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Time & Attendance Software

i'm searching for a good time & attendance software for my company. requirements: No Cloud we need the software on our sites in europe and usa, a good support is very important. the software ...
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I want to log hours studied every day on desktop, how do I do it?

Here's the system that I want: I choose a subject called "political science". I study it using pomodoro timer for 45 minutes. Then I choose subject called "human sciences" and I ...
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Android FTP server app that preserves original date modified of files and folders?

Most FTP server apps on the google play store don't preserve the date modified of folders and files but I want to preserve them with FTP. I've tried: Wifi FTP server (https://play.google.com/store/...
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Timetable / schedule planner

I am looking for a software (preferrably mac or web) to create (weekly repeating) schedules with the following features: creation and management of different rooms / resources with distinct start and ...
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Schedule assistant

I want a regular time tracker with a schedule, like a Google calendar. But with some special features: I wanna will able to specify when I do or can do a task: strictly, for instance, "work ...
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Best tool to create casual link chart/evidence board

I would like to have a space, kind of like a scrapbook, where I can link specific pieces of information based on some mutual trait that they share (e.g. link news articles about a specific event to ...
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Flat fee time tracking software for 250 employees

I am looking for a flat fee (no per user pricing) SaaS time tracking tool for employees. The current team size is around 250 people. The tool has to have: Time tracker Time reports (including sharing ...
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Kitchen oven scheduler for multiple parallel dishes

I'm looking for a free Android app that helps with preparing several kinds of food in parallel, with the goal of getting everything ready at more roughly the same time. For example, I might like to ...
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Calendar for daily planning with multi-select and bulk move

I am looking for a calendar app that does the following: Allow me create events anywhere between 5 min and 2 hours easily to plan out my daily work. Allow me to multi-select a number of consecutive ...
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Use a timer as a Zoom participant

I have weekly meetings on Zoom during which participants are encouraged to speak. However, some speak too long, not allowing enough time for others, so we sometimes use a timer to control how long ...
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Best tool to allow employees to report their future available hours

Assume this is for a consulting practice where employees bill clients by the hour. Management needs to forecast consultant availability for upcoming weeks in order to assign work to those with spare ...
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Smartphone software-oriented periodical tasks reminder

Some entities do certain periodical tasks by an organizational regulation or method; I primarily mean to non-automatic and software-development-oriented tasks; a person often needs periodical ...
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Time tracking with planning

I am looking for a time tracker/task manager with planning functionality, ideally as follows: I can create any task and specify how long I want to spend on it, the task can be repeated (eg. every day ...
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Simple time tracking and reporting desktop software

I found other questions on the same topic, I read the suggestions there and tried Grindstone and Fanurio, but both seemed: to be centered around project / client management (I've already removed them ...
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Is there a free (no-registration) JSON time API besides worldtimeapi.org?

I don't have anything against https://worldtimeapi.org/, which I use, but their FAQ makes it known that they are not to be relied upon for "commercial applications". Thus, it would be nice to have at ...
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Android app for tracking time spent on pokemon go

I'm looking for an android app to track time spent specifically on Pokemon Go. I have installed Screen Time, but i think it tracks the time the app was active and not the time the user was active ...
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Time attendance software to work in conjunction with ZKTeco ZK4500 Fingerprint Scanner

I'm searching for a time and attendance software that can work in conjunction with the ZKTeco ZK4500 Fingerprint Scanner (device specifications can be found here). Requirements Ideally, must be free ...
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Lock screen till user completes a particular action

At my company, we need to submit a timesheet on a monthly basis. But many employees fail to do this creating a hue and cry at the last moment and needless to say, unwanted escalations! So I was ...
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Time logging system that allows 100+ employees to assign their time to projects

Here's a system that we'll be checking out for now. We're looking for a system that provides the following features: Track work times Track project times Export data to CSV (for usage in SAP) SAAS ...
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Time tracking-app that is counting down workingtime for projects?

I am an employee web developer for a small company. We have agreed on how much time every week I should spend on three different projects. And all working time should be time tracked. Today we are ...
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Crossplatform and free time tracking app with server

Please recommend time-tracking software. Requirements: zero interaction from user to track time: a simple demon what monitors "computer is used/unused" is ok crossplatfrom: Linux, MacOs, Windows ...
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Time-based internet shutoff on Linux

So I'm looking to block internet access on my Linux laptop after a certain hour. Initially I was going to try chomper paired with a chron job to do the trick, but ran into a bug. In particular I ...
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Web or desktop app for tracking tasks I am working on to the minute

Can you recommend me a tool, commercial or free, for tracking tasks I am working on? I would prefer a desktop app but an web app is fine as well. I do not want to use an app on the phone. I am ...
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Software that logs when I'm working

I'm looking for a Windows software that records when I am working with the PC. It should log when the PC is started and shut down. Also it should check every few minutes if the screen is on or if ...
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Seeking application to create offline timelines

I am looking for a downloadable (offline/installable) application that helps in creating a timeline. It should grow preferably from bottom to top, something similar to Facebooks timeline. I don't need ...
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A time tracking Android app with timers integrable with Tasker to log Windows tasks?

I want to track how much I work, make music, meditate and read. I imagine I can use the Eventghost plugin with Autoremote and Tasker to tell an Android time tracking app how much time I've spent on ...
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Attendance self-tracking

I heard that there are Android applications to track my daily attendance, which use the office wifi connection times to determine arrival/exit. Can anyone please point me to application names?
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