At the beginning of the year I've started to log my work times in a little day planner. Of course, since I dont have any data from before I started doing this, I can't really say it with certainty but I definitely <i>feel</i> like I'm accomplishing more. I find logging work time to be very motivating, but I can't exactly put my finger on as to why.<p>I did, however, try this sort of thing before, but always with some kind of software or script, and I never kept at it. It only began working when I started to manually make notes with pen and paper. (The day planer I use has preprinted lines for every half hour, so I usually simply <i>draw</i> the time, which makes it possible to quickly skim through the book and instantly get a feeling of how much I worked in a given week and where in the day that work was concentrated.)<p>I've more and more began to appreciate getting away from the computer and doing things by hand, using different materials, using pens, pencils and paper, sketching on a whiteboard, pacing around the room etc.
OwlHuntr, if you're interested in some code that could generate PDF invoices from your .clockwork.log files, let me know. I have some code that I think could be easily adapted to do exactly that.
You all should get the updated version. I made a silly mistake in the initial version which I now realize left the over a little too soon. Grab the new one for added awesomesauce.