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Many times when you’re working on a project, you need to keep track of the time that you spend on a particular project or task, either for billing, or to see how many hours you’ve wasted getting that idea or experiment of yours working.

I’ve looked for a good, cheap timer that I could use to track my projects, and have been using TimeLog for a while now. It works out pretty nicely, and does what I need it to, and it was cheap.

However, sometimes you don’t need all the charting and graphing, printing, or extra features that come with the timers you pay for. Lots of times, you just need to know how much time you’ve spent on something, and that’s it. At mediaRAIN, we use a time tracking system that handles the client info and report generating, so really all I need there is something that keeps a clock running for me, then I can transfer those hours into our tracker. TimeLog is great for doing contract work, but at the office, I just need the time and that’s it. Jac’s timer is great for that.

Jac needed a quick and easy to use timer as well, so he just built his own. It’s built in Flash, and wrapped with mProjector so you can run it as a standalone executable. He has both Mac and Windows versions available.

Download: Jac Wright’s Project Timer

As a side note, what methods or applications do you use to track your project time?