Grindstone
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Grindstone is a desktop application, produced by Epiforge Software, that allows users to create and organize tasks and to track time. It includes a range of other features that supplement this primary functionality.
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- TBayAreaPat reviewed Grindstone
This is fantastic for a pie chart view of your habits. It is partly automated (It knows when you walked away) and you add details as you choose. Very easy to use and effective. My only wish is that it was incorporated with a routine maker. Grindstone, however, will give you time insights on how to set up a routine on another program.
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This is fantastic for a pie chart view of your habits. It is partly automated (It knows when you walked away) and you add details as you choose. Very easy to use and effective. My only wish is that it was incorporated with a routine maker. Grindstone, however, will give you time insights on how to set up a routine on another program.
A piece of software so horrible that they do not tell you features, nor how much the Pro version costs until you install the freemium version on your computer. Go ahead.. find pricing. The video instructions are recording in 4K for an app that take up about 650px wide. The one comment that says it's nice -- only commented on this one software.
from Wiki: "Grindstone is a freeware Microsoft Windows desktop application that allows users to create and organize tasks and to track time... Grindstone can synchronize time tracking data for multiple users via a paid service called Task Force"
The software is somewhat annoying but the tagging feature is advance and time economic still there could be automation and better better generated graph its not very insight aggregation. Most what's show in te graph isn't inspirational or useful. Maybe integrations could make them useful.
[Edited by credlaw, December 28]
Grindstone's ease of use and built-in reporting capabilities easily makes this a fantastic free tool widely used throughout my organization. Time sheet aggregation that comes at a fairly steep cost unfortunately cost this application a star.
I've used Grindstone for years. Started using it back when Grindstone 2 was a puppy.
Grindstone 2 has a killer feature called "autopilot." When autopilot is active, Grindstone logs the window title of every single window you open. (And the entry includes the exact time that the window was opened, remained focused, and then lost focus/was closed.)
(And yes, you can dial down the number of windows it reports on by limiting it to reporting only entries longer than x seconds/minutes/hours...)
But sadly, IIRC, Epiforge (the developer) seemed to react impulsively, perhaps angrily? (IMHO) to a software review that said the app was "bland looking".
(interface was perfect for me...)
A year or two later, Epiforge came out with Grindstone version 3 - it looks like someone dropped too much blotter while they coded the new interface. Waaaay too much blotter. Sweet Jesus, they need to read "Don't Make Me Think" (book on how to design (webpages, but same concept). It teaches you how to "follow design convention" so your users don't need a PhD to figure out how where the he** anything is.)
The interface also makes the app look juvenile. I half expect blinged-up warriors to blast their across the screen and obliterate the entry you just "deleted."
But worst... they chucked autopilot completely in version 3. So in order to track the time for anything, you must manually start and stop the clock.
Yeah. Like I'm going to remember to do that . (uhhh... NOT)
I switched to TimeSnapper about 2 years ago for recording my activity (literally) and the AUTOMATIC screen shots it takes helped me get paid for time I worked which my EX-boss thought he could get away with not paying me for. It's hard to argue with images.