But if you've procrastinated and decided to put an end to procrastination once and for all, this little app may be helpful. Procrastination Killer is basically a countdown clock that applies the "procrastination hack" explained on 43folders.

This productivity method consists of three easy steps: work for 10 minutes straight, focusing on one single task and not allowing anything to break your concentration; when this working period is over, take a compulsory two-minute break to do whatever you want. Finally, when the break is finished, go back to another 10-minute hard work period.

Procrastination Killer helps you apply this method by controlling the working periods and breaks you take. Of course, the program will only be effective if you're an honest player and don't cheat!

Procrastination Killer helps you avoid procrastination by applying an easy method to control work breaks and focus on highly productive working periods.

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There are a lot of personal organizers available to download, even just timers. What sets Free Countdown Timer a bit apart is its ability to play an MP3 file as the timer's buzzer. If you have a deadline for a specific task, for example, you could play an MP3 sound bite exclusively for when that particular deadline's due.

The nice thing about Free Countdown Timer is that you can very easily schedule multiple deadlines simultaneously, as well as remove, add, or edit existing deadlines in a few simple clicks. Each deadline is its own entry in Free Countdown Timer, which can be customized in a variety of different ways, including the way it's described. Additionally, you can schedule MP3 sound bites to wake up your computer if you've suspended it. You can even change the volume level of the sound.

One frustrating aspect of Free Countdown Timer is simply that you can't pause the countdowns once they've been started. It's not really much of a big deal if it's an extended countdown that goes on for hours or days. If you're under a time crunch to get a project done, however, don't expect to be able to stop Free Countdown Timer to go grab a snack or run to the bathroom.

Free Countdown Timer is also available in a portable version so busy users can take it with them on the go.

Aside from the lack of a pause button, Free Countdown Timer is a useful tool with the great ability to add your own MP3 files as alarms.

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This cute little program lets you mark the time you start work and the time you finish as if it was a real punch clock – it even features a "punching" sound effect. TimeStamp includes a calendar utility with which you can easily keep track of all the hours you've worked during the whole week.

But TimeStamp is not only about tracking working hours. In fact it can also help you get some breaks from work, thanks to special features that calculate your lunchtime and the so called "Workaholic settings", which display a reminder to tell you it's time to go home once the working hours are over. It would have been nice to have short break reminders as well, though.

TimeStamp is very easy to use, can be minimized to the system tray so that it doesn't take up space and lets you export data to XLS, TXT or comma separated lists.

With TimeStamp you can easily keep track of all the hours you've worked and avoid working extra time!

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ManicTime sits unobtrusively in the system tray and keeps track of absolutely anything you do with your PC: websites you open, e-mails you send, documents you write, etc. ManicTime doesn’t record what you actually write or read; it just controls the applications you use and the time you spend on each one of them.

With all the collected data, ManicTime generates nice, colorful timelines and charts with which you can have an accurate view of how you spend your time, either if it's for work reasons, because you want to put an end to your procrastination habit or just for fun.

ManicTime lets you browse the list of activities, filter it to search for a certain element and also tag the information to make it easier to handle. ManicTime can also export the data, but only to CSV - no other formats like HTML or PDF supported.

If you need to track the time you spend on the computer, be it for work reasons or just out of curiosity, ManicTime is the tool you need.

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From there you can resize it to the correct number of hours, and add more details about the work, including how much you will be paid for doing it.

Klock also features automatically made weekly and monthly time sheets, that can be dragged into Excel without conversion, which is useful.