Print a report of work hours

[Charlie Austin]

I use this..

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tasklog/id530068595?mt=12

it isn’t part of X, and cost 6 bucks, but it’s a great little app…

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[Noah Kadner]

Just to clarify- you’d need to have that kind of app installed before starting a gig. There’s no way to determine that from an already completed project in X (just like most apps).

Noah

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[Bill Davis]

A simple cheat if you don’t have a tracker installed is to go to your Autosave vault and scan the dates and times on the files there.

It’s not precise, but they are only created when you’re actually working in X, so it’s a rough list of the days and times you were active.

FWIW.

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[Miguel Yanez]

Great app Charlie, may be I will download it, but I need something more specific. Thank you very much for your response, I will consider you opinion

[Miguel Yanez]

It sounds interestin Bill, but I have a question, How do I do that? I mean, How can I scan the information? clicking with the right button on the autosave value?

[Lawrence Eaton]

I use office time from the App Store. Comes in OS X& iOS versions and allows for customisation.

Lawrence

[Miguel Yanez]

Oh It seems to be reaaly good. Can you customise the app for traking the use of a specific application like Final Cut?

[Bret Williams]

Select your library then FILE>OPEN LIBRARY>FROM BACKUP and you’re see a pull down list with all the autosaves available. As Bill said it only saves if something has changed so it’s accurate to about 15 min.

Why do you need to have such specific billing? Wouldn’t you at least bill by the hour or half hour minimum?

Me, I just keep it all in iCal. I’ve found some apps in the past that will produce an invoice from iCal data and write to iCal the timing data. But I’ve found tracking apps to be just as much trouble as entering the time myself. Plus, how do I discern a 30min search on iStock for just the right image and taking a break to web surf? Or getting emails with images from the client and checking my email on a lunch break?

And it’s all just more stuff to reinstall whenever I do a clean install every 6 mo or so.

[Noah Kadner]

Flat rates do suck the life out of an editor though…

Noah

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[Lawrence Eaton]

Miguel

You can set up processes that you carry out that appear in a drop down. OfficeTime knits into iCalender neatly and you can spit out invoices when you are finished.

Lawrence