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I've tested several programs for time logging and todolist is the most versatile program I've found. It's free and also has a portable version.
You can log tasks, subtasks, create time estimates and compare actual time spent and estimate entire project times and project completition in percentages based on subtask completition. You can schedule and prioritize. You can tweak options to make the program just as simple or complex as you like.
I'm not sure it can be used to export spreadsheets or why you would want to do that.
Sounds (and looks like) a Windows-only version of Task Coach, which is my favored tool.
I'm still unclear on whether tracking time this way does usefully improve my estimates of the amount of time I use on tasks. It does seem to increase my motivation to finish tasks (and then move on and finish another..), though.
Thanks, wasn't aware of the program. I tried it and it seems a lot simpler and less modifiable, but that might be a good thing depending on how you look at it.
Nitpicks: It seems to open a new window every time you create something, that definately slows things down. There seems to be few hotkeys. In ToDoList there's a customizable keyboard shorcut for everything and I rely on them heavily.
There's about .. 24 or 30 shortcuts, yeah (mostly shown in the rightclick menu). In practice I find these match the core actions I do (new task, new subtask, edit task, start/stop time tracking, add notes, mark as completed..).
The new window thing bugs me too (but probably for different reasons, as a designer I think it's the correct choice and they should have just made it faster, probably by using GTK+ instead of Qt)