Easy 3-steps tutorial how to get started

1.step: Plan your work

If your work at computer contains regular tasks repeating on a daily/weekly basis, register them in Settings dialog before going on.

Every task you want to measure must exist in your day plan. In order to do that click Add ... button. Task settings dialog shows up. Type description of your new task and set its priority correctly. If necessary, setup other task properties too.

2.step: Work

If you want to start working on some task, highlight it and click Select button. This will set the task as current and once you click Work button Rachota will start measuring time you spent on this task. The same is achieved by double clicking the task.

If you need a break, click Relax button to temporarily suspend measuring the time. If you finish some task, click Done button. Please note that once any task gets done, you cannot work on it any longer.

Always keep in mind to let Rachota know when you switch between tasks or you are leaving computer unless you want to take it into account. Day view is obviously the most used part of Rachota.

3.step: Analyze measured data

Most probably the main outcome of your day-to-day cooperation with Rachota will be an analysis of the measured data. Switch to History tab and select period of time you are interested in.

If you are curious about either working hours or times when you worked in the past, switch to Times tab. It provides two types of graphs with possibility to highlight some tasks by filter.

If you need to know exactly what tasks you worked on during the selected period, switch to Tasks tab. If necessary, use Add filter button to narrow set of tasks displayed in the table below.

If you need to generate HTML report for off-line usage, click Generate report ... button. You will be asked to specify file name and provide short report description. The report will contain selected chart, applied filters and selected tasks.

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