Timing for Mac
Discover how you spend time on your Mac.
Timing is the best way to keep track of the time you spend with your Mac. Find out where your time goes - without ever having to start a timer again! Timing automatically tracks which documents you are editing, which applications you use, and the domains of the websites you visit. You'll never have to worry about forgetting to start or stop a timer again - there are none! It's all done in the background! After tracking, just drag and drop activities into projects. Some general categories like "Web Browsing", "Office", and "Games" have already been prepared for you, but you can customize them any way you like!
Review this week's activities with just one click! Sophisticated graphs show you how you spent your time each day and which projects consumed most of your time.
Some of the applications supported by Timing:
It's a lot of trouble to keep running in a useful way, one has to set up endless amounts of auto-categorisation, which in the end does not add the time spent to client accounts. I.e. Timing doesn't really improve billable hours, it just keeps track of what you do on all of your computers (each of which requires a lot of babysitting to get Timing running properly). The biggest issue users face is privacy. All of the data is stored on Microsoft servers. You are giving a directly look into every minute of every day to the NSA until you get timing off of your computer. In terms of data deletion, my subscription ended in November 2021. Data was finally deleted in April 2022.
I was very happy to see that eventually data was auto-deleted. Hopefully the two years I subscribed it's not on permanent file next to my name somewhere in a centralised database. I would not consider using such a service which stores its data on Google, Microsoft, AWS or Apple servers. I'd like to see such data stored outside of the US in a privacy respecting country (no Five Eyes) in encrypted form which is not accessible to Daniel from Timing either. At the very least the server should be a locked down dedicated server. From the moment I saw Microsoft's involvement, I deeply regret having subscribed to Timing. No one should have this much information about its users.
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