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Discussion on: Is time tracking really necessary for a task management software?

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Marius-Alexandru Voinescu

Have a look at ClickUp. You might like it. Has time tracking integrated by default and I think it's in their free plan as well. Only downside is that it only works on Chrome as you will need their Extension to do that.

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Scott Simontis

I second this. Especially now that I am in the 2.0 beta this app is AWESOME!

It depends on which service you use in regards to the Chrome extension. I don't understand why I had the desktop version of ClickUp and the desktop version of some time tracker service I was evaluating, and I still had to go to Chrome to get them to sync up.

I have found that Harvest behaves in a sane manner. I have it installed on my desktop, and once I enabled the integration and logged into Harvest, it linked the two. I can click on a button from the ClickUp desktop application and it starts the timer. I think Harvest has a free plan too.

A lot of the other time tracking systems wanted all of the data I was entering into ClickUp. I don't need a Project Management system/Time tracker to integrate with my Project Management system, I just need a damn timer!

I like the timer because it lets me compare my estimates to reality and hopefully I get better at estimating over time.