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That's terrific--for those cases where you have one client or employer
at a time and only one billable category at a time.
Freelancers who have more than one client, or those who work on
multiple projects that must be separately accounted for, have needs
that are sufficiently more complex that a decent time tracker or PIM
with time tracking functions can be extremely worthwhile.
Otherwise, extending your concept to a multisheet setup with a new
sheet for each customer or project might work--given that there is
also a summary sheet that will break things down for a billing period
and give a summary view.
Where a spreadsheet becomes more of a pain, however, is when you get
to accounting for interruptions such as phone calls that involve other
projects.
I would also create more columns for each day...again, for those days
when there are other things that intervene and thus more than two time
periods for each project in a single day's time.
Obviously, though, your sheet makes an extremely good beginning--as
you say, to "get started."
David
On 7/19/05, Lou Quillio <public -at- quillio -dot- com> wrote:
>
> Bonnie Granat wrote:
> > I tried TimeTrax once and didn't like it, but now I think I may just try
> > using Excel.
>
> Here's one to get you started:
>
>http://quillio.com/templates/timesheet.xls
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