Daily Timekeeping

1/31/2021

If you don’t document your time daily, is it timekeeping or something else?

Something else. Pretend Timekeeping.

Chances are good that you do not document your time daily. You may even think it doesn’t make any difference. After all it takes more time and the results are the same. Right?

Does Daily Timekeeping take more time?
Of course not. Let’s compare 'once a day' to 'once a week'.

Once a day: Open Timesheet. Open email or some other tracking app that you use to jog your memory. Enter time on five billable projects and one general office project. Done. Elapsed time is 7 minutes. 35 minutes per week.

Once a week: Open Timesheet. Open email or some other tracking app that you use to jog your memory. Log each task as you find it, or make a note to avoid going back and forth between apps. Make 25 time entries on five billable projects and five entries on one general office project. Look for gaps in the time entries. Make adjustments. Done. Elapsed time is 46 minutes. You waste between five and ten minutes (or more) on handling five days in one session. You waste another five to ten minutes (or more) looking for gaps and making adjustments. However, you save four minutes (or less) by opening the apps just once.

Are the results the same as Daily Timekeeping?
Of course not. There is a zero chance that you can document durations as accurately after several days, unless ... you are keeping detailed notes every day.

That’s daily timekeeping, but you aren’t getting the benefits of daily timekeeping because your time wasn’t documented/shared until days or weeks later.

More about daily timekeeping

What are the benefits of daily timekeeping?

Accuracy.
Feedback on billable targets.
Nearly real time feedback on design budgets.
Saves time on timekeeping.

Does your timekeeping system support daily timekeeping?
Do you get the benefits of daily timekeeping? Or do you have to wait days or weeks to see the results?

Architekwiki has a solution for you - MyCorbu

MyCorbu helps in these ways:

A customized Timesheet is displayed every morning
Your time entries update your Billable Ratio after every entry (Why this matters)
Your Design Budgets are updated after every time entry
You can collect Mileage entries along with time (Reimbursable Expenses too)
MyCorbu either saves you money or frees up time to make more money
and that’s just timekeeping ...

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MyCorbu is just $7/month/user.

See how much better daily timekeeping can be.