Activity Timer can be used as a project timer, a session timer, or an eye protection reminder. Activity Timer can track all the times when you use the mouse or keyboard. In this way you can find out exactly how much time you spend at the computer on each of your projects or tasks.
You can also play sounds or show screen alarms as a reminder that it is time to stop work, or take a short break before you start again. The other main thing you can do is to play or show reminders to look away from the screen for a few seconds from time to time as is advised by eye doctors - this can help mitigate that tiredness of the eyes that can result from long periods of staring at a computer monitor.
Main features:
- Treat as idle time whenever mouse or keyboard are idle for more than a set period of time
- Auto ends the session if idle for even longer - when you leave the computer running and go away for five minutes say. Auto restarts as soon as you start to use the keyboard or mouse again.
- You can set the time of day when each day rolls over to the next
- You can set it to start whenever you start the computer
- You can set it to run as a tray icon (in the area next to the system clock), so that you can show it any time with a right click on the icon
- You can set it to pop up whenever you move the mouse into a selected corner of the screen as a quick way to show the times at any time or to change project
- Year 2038 compliant - the current build of Activity Timer will work fine until the end of this century. See What is the Year 2038 problem?
- Show table (csv type) with details of the hours worked for every day worked, to open in a database program.
- Show a summary report of all the time spent on every project, and make a combined database showing the total time spent on all the projects for each day worked.
- You can show a pie chart, bar chart or list with the total times for each project for the day, week, year, or entire project.
- You can set it to run minimized. When minimized you can see the time so far in the current session when you hover the mouse over its icon. You can also change the project or set it to working or not working with a quick right click on the icon.
- You can show it's miminised icon as a pie chart for the amount of time in session so far - with complete circle set to whatever you like, preset to one hour
- Flash icon or screen when time is up, or play tune
- Eye protection reminders to take one or two minute eye breaks several times an hour as recommended by eye doctors. You can play a short tune for the break, or flash the icon or screen as a reminder. It's a reminder to blink to moisten the eyes, and to relax the eyes by looking into the distance, e.g. out of a window.
- Easy to add new projects - just enter its name into the box and press the New Project button and it is done
- Basic features are free with splash screen. Low price and more features if you pay to remove the splash.
- Straight forward layout. Easy to use. Small download size.
- You can translate all the text in the user interface into your own language.
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