Time Tracking for Lawyers: What to Use, and Why We Are Not It
Billable hour capture has requirements most trackers do not meet, and ours meets none of them. What actually works, and the one thing worth measuring alongside it.
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Time tracking for freelancers, agencies, consultants, lawyers, accountants and designers, and what each one is really measuring.
Time Tracking for Freelancers: Your Real Hourly Rate Is Lower Than You Think
The billable hours are the easy part. The unpaid ones decide whether freelancing works, and no invoicing tool will ever show them to you.
Time Tracking for Designers: Revisions Are Where the Money Goes
Design estimates fail on revisions, not on the first draft. What to use, and why creative work is the hardest thing to track by hand.
Time Tracking for Consultants: What to Use, From Someone Who Does Not Sell You Billing
If your hours become an invoice, we are the wrong tool. Here is what to use instead, what each one costs, and the one case where we are still worth having.
Time Tracking for Accountants: Billing, Busy Season, and the Hours That Never Reach a Bill
What to use for WIP and billing, and the separate problem of where the other half of the year goes. Written by people who do not sell you a billing system.
Real Estate Agent Time Management: Drive Time Is the Hidden Cost
Showings and commuting eat the day, and desk trackers cannot see any of it. What to use for drive time and mileage, and what to use for the rest.
Developer Productivity: What the Evidence Says, Including the Uncomfortable Part
PRs per week stopped meaning anything, DORA and SPACE measure teams not people, and developers misjudge their own speed by forty percentage points. What is left.
Agency Time Tracking: Utilisation, Scope Creep, and What the Timesheet Hides
What to use for agency billing and utilisation, why timesheets systematically understate scope creep, and the one thing we are useful for. We do not build team dashboards.