Why Should I Track my Time (other than to Make my Boss Happy)?

We know that if you’re busy getting your everyday work done, filling timesheets is the least of your problems. However, tracking your time every day – and making it part of your daily workflow – can be beneficial for both you and the organization you work for.

We understand that filling out timesheets can be a tedious chore that eats up your valuable time.

That's why we developed a tool designed to streamline the process, allowing you to track your time effortlessly with just a single click. We did it because we understand the struggle.

Before building Timeneye, our small company was a small software agency juggling multiple tasks and projects. We were growing fast, which was great, but that meant always chasing after deadlines.

Time tracking turned out to be a game-changer for us: with the tool we developed, we could know exactly where our time was going, eliminating the need for guesswork.

We’re sure that, after you’ve given it a try, tracking your time daily will be a) super easy for you, and 2) truly useful to your daily productivity!

(And, just so you know, our tool Timeneye doesn’t support screenshots, keystroke logging, or any other privacy-invasive features. We believe in transparency, not spying!)

Tracking your time: Benefits for Productivity and beyond 

Benefit #1: Keeps you organized 

By tracking your daily tasks, you gain clear insight into how your time is allocated every day.

This information allows you to maintain organization and identify which projects, clients, or tasks dominate your schedule. 

With a detailed account of your time usage, you'll find it significantly easier to meet pressing deadlines and keep your manager well-informed. You'll also gain a better understanding of your daily time utilization.

Benefit #2: Keeps you focused

Multitasking doesn’t really work, unfortunately. The reason is that our brains are not meant to focus on more than one task at the same time: quite the contrary, actually, multitasking damages our concentration.

When you work on a task while tracking time for it, you’re more likely to do one thing at a time and devote your full focus.

You can also couple time tracking with some popular productivity techniques like time blocking, or the Pomodoro method.

Benefit #3: Helps you estimate tasks

If you get into the habit of tracking time, you’ll be more prepared to answer the classic, fateful question “How long will it take?” from your manager.

You'll gain insight into the time required for each of your tasks. Additionally, you can document your past work and substantiate your time estimates using the detailed timesheets you've recorded.

Benefit #4: Keeps you in control of your schedule

Knowing exactly what you worked on a daily basis is crucial to keeping track of your daily work.

Even the most organized, “I-have-an-elephant’s-memory” type of person can get totally lost in the hustle and bustle of busy days, and have trouble recollecting what they did a month, a week, or even a day or two before. It’s simply too much information that our brains cannot handle.

Time tracking software, and a visual one like Timeneye in particular, helps workers know exactly how they spent their week, what they worked on, and for how long.

Conclusion

More often than not, tracking time at work is seen as a pointless administrative task. And sometimes that is the case, especially when time tracking is not correctly implemented on the workplace, or it’s done using the wrong setup.

However, with the right tools like time tracking software, a transparency-first approach, and the correct mindsets, managers and employees alike can benefit from tracking time, both in the company and in the personal productivity departments.