Show HN: Timelite, a simple time tracking solution

This is something I&#x27;ve been casually working on here and there for a need I had. I use a variety of project management solutions and they all track time differently, some don&#x27;t even track time at all, and it&#x27;s sometimes not very well implemented. I just wanted a way to track time quickly separate from my project management system that I can then enter later to make sure my time is accurate.<p>Hilariously, I&#x27;ve also used this for janky speed run time tracking while gaming since you just hit enter and it keeps going, it&#x27;s not very good at that but it works...

This is pretty cool. We use some awful enterprise software for timesheets (Deltek) and its frustrating enough that I only enter information once per week. During the week I use my outlook calendar, creating events corresponding to projects and hours worked.<p>A nice feature would be to export the Timelite log into an ical file or directly into calendar.

You should add a confirmation to the &quot;CLEAR&quot; button. It&#x27;s too easy to accidentally wipe the whole log. It would also be nice to download the log as CSV -- this can be done with pure JS.

This looks very nice! I like the minimalism.<p>Somewhat off-topic, but where I work we don&#x27;t need timesheets - so as an <i>employee</i> my main use-case for time tracking is actually to track my overtime. However most services seem to focus on the <i>employer</i> perspective - which is probably a reasonable product strategy.<p>So does anyone know a good solution for overtime tracking? Currently I&#x27;m using Nokotime in combination with a self-written node.js script that calculates my overtime per week &#x2F; in total. While I love Nokotimes&#x27; UI I would consider switching if there was a tool&#x2F;service that made the overtime thing easier.

&gt; Where I work, VanNoppen Marketing (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vannoppen.co&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vannoppen.co&#x2F;</a>), they let me code stuff on my free time and do whatever I want with it.<p>When you say &quot;free time&quot;, do you mean &quot;free time at work&quot;, or just in general?

I&#x27;m going the plug Clockify as a happy (unaffiliated) user. It&#x27;s free for small users, and has a good reason for how they make money anyway (it&#x27;s just advertising for them, they make their money from big customers like Google, IBM, PwC). They have everything and the kitchen sink, but you don&#x27;t have to use it. For example, open an email or a Google calendar event or a Github issue and they&#x27;ve added &quot;start tracking a new task&quot; inline.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;clockify.me&#x2F;customers" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;clockify.me&#x2F;customers</a>

Since I was procrastinating writing timesheets and it was hard to estimate the hours worked weeks back from git commits, slack and Skype history, I hacked thyme to recognize my screensaver&#x2F;lockscreen, put it into crontab and now I have visual logs about time my workstation was unlocked, which Windows were active and can recreate the timesheets much more easily.

That&#x27;s pretty cool! This is pretty simple and minimalistic.<p>I&#x27;ve been working on my own different take on time tracking too (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;maesure.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;maesure.com</a>) which asks you periodically what you&#x27;re doing and builds a picture of the day from that.

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;davidecavestro&#x2F;jttslite" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;davidecavestro&#x2F;jttslite</a>

I find toggl convenient to use simple multi&#x2F;project time tracking<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;toggl.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;toggl.com</a><p>Especially with it&#x27;s desktop app

wakatime has been my go to for this type of thing.

Overkill. Use <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;timewarrior.net" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;timewarrior.net</a> instead.

This is great--just what I was looking for

i cant trust this based on your employers website - which can not be accessed without a weird capthcha &quot;Why do I have to complete a CAPTCHA? Completing the CAPTCHA proves you are a human and gives you temporary access to the web property.&quot; like, wtf? and you guys build websites? lol. no thanks.