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By: practicehacker » Blog Archive » Chrometa gets Thumbs Up from WebWorkerDaily

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:46:40 +0000

[...] WebWorkerDaily reviewed time and billing app (and Practicehacker sponsor) Chrometa here http://webworkerdaily.com/2010/03/09/effortless-time-tracking-with-chrometa/ and gave it rave reviews. But that’s no surprise. WWD had this to say about the [...]

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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:32:04 +0000

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By: John Gallagher

John Gallagher — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:24:06 +0000

An excellent app for sure. Turns out I’m building something very similar to Chrometa but for the Mac. (I’m not copying from Chrometa – I’ve had this idea for 6 years now and it was part way through development that I even heard of it).

If you’d like to know more about it, you can check out http://lapsusapp.co.uk.

If I can make it half as easy as Chrometa does to categorise your times, I’ll consider it a success! Thanks for a great review.

By: Scott Johnson

Scott Johnson — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:59:17 +0000

I have been using Chrometa for a little more than a month and absolutely love it. I work for a law firm and had been struggling for years to settle on an efficient, workable method for keeping track of my time. I've tried handwritten notes, Excel charts, and the timer application my firm provides, but none of those proved was as effective for me as Chrometa has been. I'm constantly jumping from project to project and application to application, and am often out of my office for meetings. I was never able to train myself to record everything I was doing, and had become accustomed to reconstructing my weekly activity from my email files when it came time to enter my time. Chrometa has been a great help.

By: Meryl K Evans

Meryl K Evans — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:29:38 +0000

Zane, thank you for sharing your experience. It gives folks another perspective. Boy, I'd hate to see what it tells me about my laptop work -- where I play games to review! (I sometimes go longer than needed.)

By: Meryl K Evans

Meryl K Evans — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:27:30 +0000

I'm an organized freak. I started sorting entries into categories, but it took more time than I would've liked. Nonetheless, it did the job beautifully and its own organization scheme without the category works well.

By: Meryl K Evans

Meryl K Evans — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:26:16 +0000

Many advise not charging per hour for many reasons, but some of us freelancers still have per hour charges and this app will take care of that for you so you can stop watching the clock or trying to recall when you started something.

By: Meryl K Evans

Meryl K Evans — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:24:53 +0000

I don't know Simon... I'd be afraid you'd replace me with the app if I give it high accolades :)

Rod -- great story!

By: Simon Mackie

Simon Mackie — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:13:43 +0000

Rod, I guarantee that if ever someone comes out with an app that can do your work for you, we'll be the first to review it ;)

By: Zane Dickens

Zane Dickens — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:30:30 +0000

I have a love hate relationship with Chrometa. Its simply so easy and so good at what its does, that you forget its running in the background. That kind of honesty at the end of the day or the end of the week can be heartbreaking. ;)

To be serious for a moment, Chrometa has literally changed my business. I use it as part of our company's sales pitch for monthly services, offering the logs as proof of hours spent on client projects. Since offering this, not a single client has questioned the final amount of hours. This single benefit substantially changes the power dynamics of handing a client your invoice.

And to score extra points we offer "per second billing", something which is quite popular with our mobile operators in South Africa, but it also serves to reassure our clients of the accuracy of our time tracking and that charge only for the exact amount of time spent working on their projects and no more.

Admittedly Chrometa does have one or two rough edges, but the guys working on are so open to suggestions and their update cycle is fairly short - that I'm confident they will have it surpassing my expectations soon.

It really is a great app and I would recommend it to anyone.

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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:22:36 +0000

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By: Doug

Doug — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:35:32 +0000

If you ever ask the question "where did the day go?", Chrometa will actually answer this question. Chrometa is easy to use, intuitive and if you are retentive about categorizing things (like me) then you will find yourself playing with it just for fun. And if you are not so retentive, then it is happy to sit in the background and track your time. I only wish that Chrometa could track my whole life, not just the time I spend on my computer.

By: Rod Underhill

Rod Underhill — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:47:15 +0000

I use it. I like it. I liked it so much I joined the Chrometa team. Now if I could just find some software that would actually do my work for me I'd be all set.

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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:53:50 +0000

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By: Law Shucks

Law Shucks — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:10:31 +0000

Great to see this tool (disclosure: they're a sponsor on my site) is spreading outside of where it started: lawyers! Not surprisingly, slaves to the billable hour came up with the idea and as far as I know were the first users. This is a great example of how "the street finds its own uses for things," as William Gibson wrote.

By: Meryl K Evans

Meryl K Evans — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:50:47 +0000

Allison, "effortless" is the best word to describe Chrometa.