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If you’re a freelance coder, writer, PR strategist, whatever, then you know how much of a pain in the butt it is to keep track of your billable hours. You also know that there are hundreds of solutions out there that will help you try to solve this problem, ranging from free to exorbitant rates.
Well, if you’re on a Mac, you can create you own little home-grown tracking system using built-in software like iCal and the Automator tool. If you’re not familiar with Automator, it’s a simple drag-and-drop interface that lets you create all kinds of interesting workflows for automating dreary tasks like formatting images and much much more (if you’re interested in learning more, I wrote a book on the subject).
So here’s what you do to create a weekly report of billable time.
- Open iCal and create a category called Billable.
- Whenever you do billable work for a client, mark the time spent in iCal and tag it as Billable. I suggest you put the client name and a brief description of what you did in the iCal notes space.
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