Toggl

Recently, I've trialed some different time-tracking apps and Toggl has really impressed me!

• It has intuitive, sharply-designed apps for smartphones, PC, and Mac.
  
• It takes just a click to start time tracking or you can take advantage of its automatic tracking features.
  
• It makes it super easy to break my working day up into 90-minute blocks - for me, this is about the amount of time I can spend working on a project before getting bored.
• It does a pretty great job of detecting when I'm not working on the computer. Sometimes I'm interrupted while working - have to run an errand or whatever - and I don't want to be billing clients for the time I'm not actually spending working for them (even if it's just a trip to the bathroom!)
• It produces reports about what I'm spending time on - which sometimes reveals weaknesses in my time management and priorities.
  
• And it's free (also ad-free) - the free version has met all my needs thus far!

Time tracking has been good for my productivity as a struggle self-employed entrepreneurs like me face is deciding what to work on. With Toggl I'm presented with a list of what I've been working on lately so I just pull up the little app on my Macbook and dive into a project that needs to be completed instead of being distracted by some shiny object on the internet or drawn into some new project or curiosity.