I like Watson https://github.com/TailorDev/Watson and it used to have a web backend (crick) but that seems to be abandoned.
Ask HN: What are good self hosted time tracking software for consultants?
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#12I find that it doesn't matter which app you use because at the end of the day you need the discipline to update your time tracking when starting and ending your work time.
That's my biggest issue. I work in a chaotic way.
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#13I went back and forth between a couple of them -- Kimai2 and InvoiceNinja, back when Ninja was still on v4. Ultimately, every time tracking system does things a little differently, and after switching back and forth again, I've settled back on InvoiceNinja v5 (https://invoiceninja.com/).
If all you need is time tracking, Kimai2 and several others will do the job just fine. But I've found in my line of work that it's useful to be able to produce formal quotes and invoices for tracking purposes. Ninja lets you do all of that, no extensions or modules required, and all of the components are integrated with each other (quotes can be converted to invoices, projects, or both, invoicing can be done by task or by project, expenses can be included in invoices, etc.) and it also features a very nice automated emailing system for client invoice/quote notifications and even a guest frontend for them to log into.
So all in all, I've found InvoiceNinja to be extremely useful and can't recommend it enough.
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#14Have you had a look at the various ones discussed in the selfhosted sub
https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/search?q=time+tracking&r...
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#15I'm very happy with https://klog.jotaen.net/ it has extremely simple text format editable from anywhere and a command converting those to JSON (sadly not the other way around).
I've written a Python script to ease my everyday (and monthly) interactions with it like excel report for my employer https://github.com/nazarewk-iac/nix-configs/blob/main/packag...
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#16I've been using this for eons:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dynamicg.t...
There's a feature limited free version. Lots of options to track times, jobs, breaks, options for how to deal with day roll over, etc. Unfortunatly Google forced them to break/disable the location tracking feature (despite that it was only doing using the information on-device) - which was super handy to 'clock in/clock out' when arriving at a site.. There's no server, but several backup options to some services or on-device storage.
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#18I went back and forth between a couple of them -- Kimai2 and InvoiceNinja, back when Ninja was still on v4. Ultimately, every time tracking system does things a little differently, and after switching back and forth again, I've settled back on InvoiceNinja v5 ( https://invoiceninja.com/ ). If all you need is time tracking, Kimai2 and several others will do the job just fine. But I've found in my line of work that it'…
Ninja is not self-hosted is it?
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#19Back when I did hourly reporting I used http://timingapp.com/. It tracks what applications and windows are open and then you connect those to tasks/projects/etc later, which was a must for me since I always forgot both to do time reporting and what I had been working on.
Re: Ask HN: What are good self hosted time tracking software for consultants?
#20Back when I did hourly reporting I used http://timingapp.com/ . It tracks what applications and windows are open and then you connect those to tasks/projects/etc later, which was a must for me since I always forgot both to do time reporting and what I had been working on.
(I am not associated with Timing, just a happy user)
I tried a few time tracking apps, and none come close to Timing. It's easy to use, gets regular updates, it's easy to setup projects and define rules (such that you don't have to track by hand). Has a handy integration with calendar, you can directly book meetings.