Better time management is something very important to use here at Black Knight Graphics. We've ironically spent hours and hours tralling the internet for better ways to manage our time and projects so that information on what we've done and how long it took us is easy to store, manage and retrieve.
Unfortunately, what we have found is that most time management tools simply require just too much time, to keep them in check. They are counter productive!

Then along came RescueTime.

RescueTime is pure genious. Where many other time tracking utilities have failed is with their requirement for you to enter your time spent doing things yourself. This not only uses up more of your precious time but also requires you to be accurate in your time recording.
RescueTime is different. It does it all for you! Whether you have a PC or Mac, RescueTime provide a small utility that sits running on your computer, keeping track of everything you do, and sending this to a live online data server for you to login and check later.

RescueTime can tell whether your active on your computer or not, and which program window you are currently active in. It doesn't matter how many websites or applications you have running, it correctly tracks which one is active at that time, and for how long. If you sit idle for a few seconds, the tracker stops recording information until you start doing things again.

Once online, you can tag your applications with keywords with which to group them by later. Tag your favourite websites as "personal", or some project work your doing as "work" and you can quickly see the difference time wise between work and play, graphically, via the RescueTime online control panel.

Recently I asked the question if RescueTime could go beyond just the application level and capture what files/folders/emails you had open so that you could really begin to track time on a project by project basis. The answer was astoundingly YES and it is currently doing this. You can't currently tag information at a higher level than by application yet, but we're sure that feature won't be far away, thus providing a truly accurate project time management solution for business.

RescueTime is currently only in it's initial beta phase but we will certainly be keeping tabs on them, eagerly awaiting official release. Check back here soon as we'll provide more information on the features of RescueTime and our experience with it so far. In the mean time - head over to http://www.rescuetime.com and signup for the free public beta.

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