It takes more than checklists to get something worth doing done!

You need to do more than set goals and track your hours to get something done, especially if youre studying something new that is outside your comfort zone. This is the only app Ive found that "gets it" aside from igoals2 which appears to have been abandoned around 2012 or so. All the other apps out there let you track your time spent on a particular task. aTimeLogger2 goes beyond that. allows you to set a goal of hours. You can either set a goal to spend less than a set time doing something (like watching TV), or set the goal to do at least X hours doing something (like reading a book). Then it tracks it as a count down. For me this is hugely motivating. For example - if youre studying a new skill, one activity may take 40 hours to complete. I can break that down to a weekly goal and make sure I find the time to put in the time.

The one function I feel the app is missing is to allow you to set a number of hours, and a due date and let it calculate how many hours per week or day or month you need to put in if you want to hit it.

Update - After using this a week no change in my rating. This is a competent, usable app. I am coming to depend on it as a productivity aid.
Great APP!

[update July 2015]

Ive been using the app for several months now and continue to love it. It really helps me to understand where my "lost" time is going and to also help me understand if my plans for projects at work and at home are realistic. (e.g. Building rome took 100years instead of the 24 hrs that I assigned)

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