Time Tracking with Chrometa

As our lives continue to move online, keeping track of everything is quickly becoming difficult.  Between screen names, work email, home email, and multiple phone numbers, important contact information gets split up between many devices and websites.

How will Soocial save me time?

Soocial (pronounced “social”) syncs my desktop, mobile, and gmail address books in one place on the web. If I update a contact, that change flows through all of my devices. If I lose my phone — no big deal, I’ll just sync my new phone with the app.
Services like Plaxo have been around for ages, but they were designed for the pre-smartphone era. Amsterdam-based Soocial is everything Plaxo should have been; it’s simple and it just works.  Soocial provides contact syncing and reconciliation of contacts wherever they may exist, including a long list of mobile phones.  It works similarly to MobileMe, with a focus on accuracy over speed.  Changes are bi-directional and synchronization happens over the air, never again will have outdated contacts or redundant information in 3 locations.

Another strength of Soocial is its backup feature.  If you somehow manage to completely wreck your contact list, restoring it to its previous state is only a click away. All in all, Soocial brings a compelling app with a Cupertino-esque user experience.  You’ll wonder how you ever lived without it.

Soocial offers both free and paid versions.  For those with lots of contacts, the cost is negligible ($4/month or $39/year).

Get Soocial and save time at soocial.com

I often get asked if our desktop time tracker is available on mobile devices.  Since it’s not, I try to direct folks to the best of breed time tracker apps on the market.

If you live by your BlackBerry, here’s a list of some of the top rated time tracking apps in BlackBerry App World. Take advantage of these apps to capture your mobile email and telephone time, and get paid for your work on the go.

1. Call Time Tracker by momentem

Price: Free

momentem’s Call Time Tracker is one of the most downloaded business applications for the BlackBerry. It automatically tracks the time you spend on phone calls and mobile email. This app pops up at the end of important calls, letting you quickly tag that call to a client or project so you won’t forget to bill for it. You can tag the time you spend reading or writing emails on your BlackBerry. At the end of the month, you get an Excel sheet of your mobile calls delivered to your inbox, with entries neatly categorized by client/project.

Call Time Tracker - Tagging a call

Call Time Tracker - Call summary

Disclaimer: momemtem is also a Chrometa partner.

2. BlackTrack Lite Activity Management

Price: Free

BlackTrack Lite is a background application for your BlackBerry that produces a complete log of phone/email activity with duration details. The app automatically logs and reports phone and email activity — without any data entry. The activity report is automatically emailed to the user periodically.

BlackTrack Lite Report

BlackTrack Lite App Screenshot

3. Timr

Price: Free

Timr is essentially a BlackBerry timer app that integrates tightly with their multi-user time tracking web app. The BlackBerry app syncs automatically with the web, so all of your time entries are in one place. This application does not do background tracking of phone call and email time. However, you can create many projects and run multiple timers simultaneously. Key differentiating features include Drive Log and Position Tracking.

Timr BlackBerry Interface

Timr Web App

4. Exgis Time Tracker

Price: $4.99

Exgis Time Tracker is a simple timer for tracking your job time. You create time entries either by starting a timer or by manual input. You can export your time in the form of a spreadsheet, which can be sent to you via email.

Exgis Time Tracker - New Time Line

Exgis Time Tracker - View Clients

5. miTimesheet

Price: $3.99

miTimesheet is another BlackBerry only time tracking application that lets you log project time through timers and manual entry. You can export your timesheet to CSV format and it can be delivered to you by email.

miTimesheet - Time Entry

miTimesheet - View TImesheets

Honorable mention: AIRTIME-Manager

We’d be remiss if we didn’t also include an honorable mention of our own – from another Chrometa partner, Airtime Manager makes a solid BlackBerry Time Tracker for attorneys and legal professionals.

Geared towards firms with entrenched billing systems, Airtime Manager integrates smoothly with many of the top legal time and billing software packages.

That wraps up our BlackBerry time tracking app rec’s.  If you’re looking for PC-based time tracking, time management, and productivity software, check out our creations