A common problem faced by developers – especially consultants is
understanding/justifying/managing your time. Do you ever catch yourself at the
end of the week needed to fill out your status report or time card and having no
idea what is it you did all week? You’re exhausted and feeling pretty good
about what you accomplished, but you’re stumped when trying to document your
accomplishments?
Introducing TimeStapper….
TimeStapper was one
of the winners of Mike Gunderloy’s The
Larkware 2005 Developer Tool Programming Contest. It’s a tiny system try
application that takes screenshots of your desktop at a time interval you
specify. Those screenshots are saved off to your hard drive and can be played
back in a timeline fashion so that you can review what it is you did on your
desktop for a given day. Go to TimeStapper.com and checkout the screenshots… you’ll get the
gist immediately.
This officially replaces that journal I told myself I was going to start in
2006 (and have forgot to do every day for 11 days now).