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If you lean to put all your events , appointments , and client meeting in iCal , TimeTablecan help you figure out exactly how much time you ’ve spent on each chore , making it a enceinte tool for advisor or anyone who demand to break down how they drop their clock time .
Launch TimeTable , and it lists all the iCal events in the chosen calendar over the chosen metre frame ( by default , the premature month ) . For each upshot , TimeTable show the start date , the total prison term of the event , and the upshot name ; by right field - clicking on any column head in TimeTable , you’re able to show additional column for iCal ’s Notes , Location , URL , End Date , Start Time , End Time , Start Weekday , End Weekday , and Calendar fields . you may also rename any column in TimeTable ’s preferences .
you could exchange the calendar and time period using the controls in the main window or by start the Set Timeframe draftsman , which gives you both predetermined period ( such as Previous , Current , and Next Day , Week , Month , and Year ) and graphical calendar .
In addition to calculating the length of each event , TimeTable displays , at the bottom of the window , data point about all events in the current time framing : the total number of hour spent on all events , the average figure of hours for each event , the length of the longest event , and the distance of the short consequence .
( If you do n’t want “ all - day ” events to be considered as 24 minute in these calculation , TimeTable includes an option to specify how such event should be handled . Since I use all - day result mainly as reminder or “ unavailable ” marker , I ’ve told TimeTable to treat them as events hold up 0 hour . )
What ’s especially useful about these statistics is that they ’re calculated free-base on whatever event are number in the windowpane . Which mean you’re able to use TimeTable ’s lookup filter to expose — and , thus , put up statistic about — only those case that match your hunting ; for example , meetings with a particular client . In the epitome here , I ’ve filtered the purview to show only faculty encounter in the past month , which tell me I ’ve spend 2.5 minute in those group meeting .
Of naturally , because this filtering is base on event names , you need to name your events appropriately and systematically for TimeTable to be useful ; for exercise , Client encounter : D. AndersonorProject meeting : Web site redesign .
TimeTable also offers an choice to calculate billable minute . If enable , an Hourly Rate field appears in the main windowpane , and a newfangled Cost editorial appears in the tilt ; enter a rate and TimeTable demonstrate you the billable amount for each outcome , as well as the total billable amount for all events in the list .
you may export your data to text or comma - separated - value ( CSV ) documents ; these exports can be customise in TimeTable ’s preferences . you could also export a blog - style inclination of notes you ’ve entered in iCal for event . There ’s a Send To Mail feature , too , but it ’s intemperately - write in code to use Apple ’s Mail program ; if you use another e - mail node , you ’re out of luck .
TimeTable also rent you employ iCal to - do items as a way to rapidly restrain the effect view to case associated with a finicky task .
One feature I ’d wish to see is the capableness to view all events in all calendars simultaneously , and it would be useful to be able to select multiple — but not all — calendars . I wish TimeTable could show times in hour : minutes annotation , rather than — or in add-on to — denary representations . Still , it ’s problematic to fence with utility . If iCal is your calendaring programme of choice , TimeTable let you make better use of your scheduled events .
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[ Dan Frakes is a Macworld senior editor . ]
