Timing your work
You can have TimeCache automatically track how much time you spend
on a project/matter as you work on it. TimeCache allows you to
start and stop timing your work in a number of different ways.
Depending on what you're doing at the time and your preferences for
interacting with your Mac, one method may work better for you than
another.
Timing a new entry

When adding an entry to the Daily Log, you can begin timing by
clicking the T icon in the data entry
popup menu (when it's in the Hours column). You can substitute
clicking the T icon with the keyboard
shortcut Shift-⌘-T.
If you are already timing a line when you start timing another
entry, TimeCache tells you which line you are timing and asks if
you want to stop timing that line. Click OK to start timing the new line, or Cancel to leave things as they were.
NOTE: You can set TimeCache Preferences to allow timing multiple
entries simultaneously, and thus avoid this confirmation
dialog.
When an entry is being timed in the Daily Log, the line is
highlighted in bold type and the timing highlight color (which you
can set in TimeCache Preferences).
TimeCache updates the charges and time for that line every 10
seconds, and shows the total for the day at the bottom right in
italics.
Timing an existing entry
To start or resume timing a line already entered in the Daily Log,
click on the Hours column for that line and click the T icon in the data entry popup menu that appears.
Or use the keyboard shortcut, Shift-⌘-T.
TIP: You can skip the data entry popup
window by holding down the Option key and clicking on the Hours or
Charges column. This toggles timing or off. You can also choose
or to start or resume timing
a highlighted entry, or to stop timing a highlighted entry.
You can also start, resume or stop timing an entry by holding the
mouse down over the "+" or "-" marker at the right end of a
selected line and choosing the appropriate command from the popup
menu that appears.
Another way to stop timing an entry is to click on that entry's
Hours or Charges column and then click Stop in the resulting dialog.
Finally, you can start and stop timing an entry in the Daily Log by
clicking the Stopwatch icon in the Daily Log toolbar. The icon displays a
green triangle when timing can be resumed for the current selection
in the Daily Log, or a red square when timing for the current
selection can be stopped.
Using the TimeCache Dock icon menu and Remote
window
TimeCache also lets you resume timing Daily Log entries when you're
working in other applications either from its icon in the OS X Dock
or from the TimeCache Remote
window.
Dock icon: Control-click the icon to
display a popup menu, and select the project you want to begin
timing, or choose Resume Timing to
resume timing a Daily Log entry. Stopping timing for a Daily Log
can be handled in a similar fashion. In Mac OS 10.5 and earlier you
click and hold the mouse down on the icon until the menu appears
instead of Control-clicking.
Remote window: If you have TimeCache
Preferences set to show the TimeCache Remote window and another
application is activated so that the Remote window is showing, you
can click its Resume Timing or
Stop Timing buttons to resume or stop
timing.
Timeout
You can set TimeCache Preferences to automatically stop timing an
entry if there is no user input for a set amount of time. User
input includes keyboard and mouse activity. For more information,
see Timing in the Setting TimeCache Preferences section of TimeCache
Help.
If no idle timeout is set, TimeCache continues timing a project
until you stop it. If you try to close a file or quit TimeCache
while you are timing a line, TimeCache asks if you want to stop
timing before you close the file. Click Stop
Timing and Close if you want to stop timing. Click
Close File if you want to continue
timing but close the file (or quit TimeCache). Click Cancel if you want to keep timing and keep the file
open (or TimeCache running).
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