If you are one of those persons who never heard of Klok, then jump right over to the Developers page, http://klok.mcgraphix.com/klok/index.htm.
Klok is a wonderful tool that helps you keep track of your time, it’s made for freelancers, individuals, for people that workout on different billable projects. I could even think that it could be used by a small company to track time of their workers.
1. IT’S SIMPLE!
I’ve tested and used a lot of timetracking software throughout the past years and no other timetracking tool was that easy as Klok. Drag & Drop the defined project into the weekly / daily grid and you are done, you can change the time by dragging the top or bottom bar of the entry, done!
2. FLEXIBLE
Let’s say you work on different projects like webdesign, Flex development or Video editing, you never have the descriptions that you really need to comment your tracked hours, Klok gives you the possiblity to create your own Project templates and define subcategories.
3. STOPCLOCK
Wouldn’t it be cool to just track your time realtime, Klok enables you to do that with the help of a simple drag&drop.
Drag & Drop your project or activity to the title bar and Klok stops the time that passes by until you hit the stop button, the entry is automatically created and you can move on to the next project.
4. REPORTING
What’s more important than tracking your time? You would like to BILL your time to your client, Klock does a pretty solid job, you just click on “weekly timesheet” and you can drag & drop the table to your desktop an Excel file is automatically created for you, not enough? Then click the “Reports” tab and you get a nice pie chart of all the projects that you worked on during the current month, past month or any user defined date range.
Am I completely happy with Klok, well yeh kind of, there are a few bugs and issues that are a bit annoying like for example the zoom slider of the weekly grid, if you work past midnight and the stopclock is running the entry will be closed at midnight and the stopclock stops working. But all in all it’s a great Project and I hope that Rob McKeown continues the development of Klok
UPDATE: I’ve just seen that Rob has released Klok 1.5 as a beta version, some of the bugs mentioned above that I encoutered have been fixed, which really makes me look forward to this nice little AIR application
The 4 things I like about Klok by Tiago's Weblog, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Switzerland License.
Klok is an amazing program, I’ve used it for a long time now. The UI is incredibly friendly, and it only took me a few minutes to figure everything out. I wrote a review on Klok from a self employed game developers perspective, give it a read if you get the time. Glad to see the developers getting the attention they deserve, they’ve worked hard on giving us a great, free program.