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Discussion on: What's your trick to tracking your billable hours?

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Janno Liivak

In my opinion (and experience), it's somewhat a creative process. Someone once said that she doesn't like strict counting of sitting-at-the-desk time. She said that when she goes to bed for the night she very often thinks on some work related things, or when she commutes, or when she takes coffe, or when she's at the market. You can't track all such important moments which by the end of the day can be hours of important thinking directly related to the work you should consider billable.

So use Toggl and be creative too ... if you have done a lot of thinking and planning in your head, add this time. Otherwise whatever solution you use works (spreadsheet, text file, todo, org-mode, Toggl) as long as you use it ;)