Work Log Template: Three Formats, and When Each One Stops Working
Copy-paste templates for a daily work log, a project log and a billable log, plus the honest account of why most people abandon them in week three.
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Time tracking
How to find out where your time goes: audits, templates, work logs, and the arithmetic of working hours.
How Many Working Days Are in a Year? (2026 and 2027, Month by Month)
2026 has 261 weekdays and 250 working days after federal holidays. Full month-by-month tables for 2026 and 2027, plus what the number is actually good for.
How Many Work Hours Are in a Year? (2026 and 2027)
2,080 is the payroll answer. 2026 actually contains 250 working days and 2,000 hours after federal holidays, and the number you actually work is different again.
Time Tracking Spreadsheet: A Template, and When to Stop Using It
A spreadsheet is the right tool for billing and the wrong tool for finding out where your week goes. Here is a template that works, and the point at which it stops.
How to Do a Time Audit (Without Giving Up on Day Three)
A time audit tells you where your week actually goes. Most people abandon it before the data is useful. Here is the method, and how to avoid the three ways it fails.
Where Did My Day Go? How to Actually Find Out
You worked all day and cannot say what you did. Here are the four places the hours actually went, and how to get a real answer instead of a guess.
What We Learned about time tracking from Elon Musk and 5 successful CEOs
A list of the best time-tracking resources for founders, PMs, and engineers.
Welcome to Cronus: Redefining Productivity Tracking
Discover how Cronus is revolutionizing the way we understand and improve our focus through intelligent, goal-aware tracking.
How Do You Track Time When Three Agents Are Running at Once?
Every time tracker ever built assumes one person doing one thing. In 2026 that assumption quietly broke, and nobody has fixed it yet. Including us.
What Is Quantified Self? The Complete Guide to Productivity Tracking
Discover how self-tracking and data-driven insights can transform your productivity, focus, and time management through the Quantified Self movement.
How Cronus Works: The Complete Guide to AI-Powered Productivity Tracking
Discover how Cronus uses AI to automatically track your activities, understand your goals, and help you stay focused without manual timers or rigid blocking rules.
Benjamin Franklin on Time Tracking
A brief history of time tracking and how it has evolved over the years.
Screenshots, Window Titles, or On-Device: AI Time Tracking Privacy in 2026
Every tracker now markets itself as private. They mean completely different things by it. Here is how to tell what a tool actually sees, and which trade you are making.
Time in 15-Minute Increments: Conversion Chart and How to Use Them
What 15-minute increments mean, the decimal conversion chart for timesheets (15 min = 0.25), the rounding rules, and how to plan a day in quarter-hour blocks.