Original review published on Steve Litchfield's 3-Lib.

Keeping track of what time is spent on which tasks is tricky enough as it is without having to account for it in enough detail to bill someone else for it. Many people, myself included, have used combinations of spreadsheets to perform this task in the past, but Thomas Nemec's TimeLog really does provide a more sophisticated alternative. Being shareware, it's downloadable from his web site. I've been looking at v3.00f.

As you'd expect, the core of the program revolves around activities that you do on behalf of different clients. Databases of categories (clients/companies etc) and activity types (each with a rate per hour or flat rate) mean that you rarely have to input the same information twice. In real-world use, once you've set up your oft-most used clients and activities, TimeLog makes the tracking of jobs very easy. There's no real-time timer(s) and entering of time information is up to you, but this isn't a weakness in my eyes as my task recording is almost always done when I think of it later in the day.

The clever bit comes at invoice time. Simply select the category/client and date range required, and up pops the invoice amount. I assume that the invoice printout would include all activity details as well but couldn't test this as Thomas has unhelpfully restricted printing to registered users. 8-(

TimeLog's interface is fairly well done, with professionally-done draggable columns; the buttons and panels at the bottom of the screen also 'did the right thing', giving a multitude of filtering functions. I was slightly disappointed that the column title buttons did nothing and would have expected to toggle the sort order in that column at the very least. The small square icon to the left of the toolbar title acts as a very handy launch button for the shown popup menu, giving quick access to each of the program's areas.

A good set of help screens complete a very useful application for anyone wishing to record their time useage on a Psion 5.

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