Our time tracking tool is mainly used for project business. However, it can also be used in different ways. In this blog, you’ll learn in which other areas timeghost can be used and how you can use it most efficiently for them. Be curious!
Projects and tasks in timeghost – a short explanation
In the project business, customers, projects and tasks are the central attributes for booking time entries. This is how we have defined it in timeghost. If you want to book a time entry, you can give the time entry a description, assign it to a project and a task within the project (see screenshot timeghost Timer).
This gives you great overviews of the working times in your project in the reports and you can see on which tasks you and your team have worked in a certain period and for how long. Based on this, you can, for example, invoice your customers or inform them about the current status of the project.
To put it in a nutshell: This is how timeghost is mainly used by our users.
Alternative uses of projects
In order to use timeghost in areas other than the project business, we have to move away from this area a bit and ask ourselves: How else can the attributes in projects and tasks be used?
Because apart from the classic project business, there are many other “projects” that can be recorded as such in timeghost. For this, however, it is important that you do not focus so extremely on the term “projects”, but interpret it a bit more generally.
Define what you consider to be a project in timeghost
To create more projects than the classic ones for your company in timeghost, it makes the most sense to ask yourself the question:
What other things happen in my company besides the actual project business?
Write down everything you can think of and record which points you would like to measure.
A small example: Keeping the kitchen clean with timeghost
In our company, the kitchen is very important to us. It is in the middle of our office and directly integrated into the common room. We meet there, exchange ideas, and spend quality time together – usually with a good coffee from the portafilter machine. That makes it all the more important for us to meet in a place where everyone feels comfortable.
That’s why we have created a project for this in timeghost. We have named the project “Kitchen Service”.
Within the project, we have defined different tasks that are important to us. A good cappuccino from a portafilter machine is much more than just a normal coffee. It not only tastes better, but brings great conversations, new ideas and new energy. Since we have a lot of coffee lovers (I count myself among them) in the company, keeping the machine clean is the top priority.
To ensure that the cappuccino tastes great every week, we simply created the task “clean the coffee machine” in the “kitchen duty” project. This way, we can constantly check in the company whether the coffee machine is clean or not. Most of the time it is cleaned by Kelly. Accordingly, she simply books the time she has spent on it to the project and the task in timeghost.
Besides the “clean the coffee machine” task, we have set other tasks to keep the kitchen clean.
Why are we telling you this?
We don’t want to tell you our complete plan on how we maintain our kitchen, but rather to make you aware that you can use timeghost for other things than the classic project business.
Simply adapt timeghost to the needs of your company or department by choosing your projects and tasks – according to the motto: “Everything is a project as long as you approach it with a clear goal, a plan and a suitable method.” timeghost can help you do just that and capture your important projects. Our software can be used in the way you specify!
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