Introduction to Hours

Quick reference

• 00:04 Hello everyone, welcome to this GoSkills.com video.
• 00:07 It is Francesco here and you are on essential productivity, which covers
• 00:12 all of the resources that you can use to get started with your productivity.
• 00:16 Now of course time tracking is important.
• 00:19 Being able to understand where you spend your time and
• 00:21 how you spend your time is a great benefit.
• 00:25 We're gonna introduce you to Hours time tracking,
• 00:27 which is a resource that would allow you to track your time throughout your day.
• 00:32 Hours is a time tracking tool,
• 00:33 it was developed by a company called 5PackCreatives, and
• 00:37 it's actually one of the easiest ways to get started with time tracking.
• 00:41 What is it used for, what are the sort of demonstrations,
• 00:45 tracking time spent, organizing clientelle.
• 00:48 So that's being able to work out how much time you spend with them.
• 00:51 Reporting on your productivity and reviewing employees' productivity, so
• 00:56 what they spend their time on basically.
• 00:58 Who actually uses Hours?
• 01:00 Now there are a lot of use cases, but
• 01:02 it's really for anyone who wants to review their time spent.
• 01:06 Capturing weekly time spent can be a really valuable asset to someone.
• 01:10 Being able to understand where you're putting your time and
• 01:12 attention or who you're putting your time and
• 01:14 attention into will really give you an audit to your productivity.
• 01:18 There are some examples who actually uses this?
• 01:21 The biggest example is probably freelancers.
• 01:24 Freelancers love to know where they're spending their time,
• 01:26 maybe because they need to understand who they're spending their client time with.
• 01:30 And also,
• 01:31 are they spending the right time in the right places in terms of monetary value.
• 01:36 Teams are using it to organize their hours spent and on the course,
• 01:40 being able to actually audit the time of their employees is so invaluable too.
• 01:45 Professionals and startups are using it too, so
• 01:48 it's used in a both team situation and an individual one and also in firms as well.
• 01:54 So more professional individuals trying to audit and
• 01:57 work out where their team are spending their time.
• 02:00 Of course, Hours has a host of features that people like using.
• 02:05 So they used the ability to add new timers per client, that's quite a nice function.
• 02:10 Being able to log all time spent on timeline which is quite nice.
• 02:15 Capture time per task, you can be very granular with it versus very broad.
• 02:20 You can gather reports on the time spent and also monitor your team's productivity.
• 02:25 Now it's available on iOS and Apple watch like pictured and also web too.
• 02:30 Now it's free on iOS, so you can actually the iOS app as much as you like, but
• 02:35 for the web version if you want to add that it's $8 per user per month or
• 02:40 $80 annually.
• 02:42 In terms of getting started all we have to do is download it.
• 02:45 We'll give you some information about that in a minute.
• 02:47 We'll obviously gonna go over the basic functionality, tracking team productivity,
• 02:52 and easy ways to get started.
• 02:53 So what we'll actually be covering, tallying your client time and
• 02:57 working with Hours in the work day.
• 02:59 So that obviously gonna be beneficial as you get started.
• 03:03 In the next feature, we're gonna chat about tallying time with your clients.
• 03:06 Now, if you don't have clients,
• 03:08 this could be based on around the tallying time on the things you spend on.
• 03:12 So this will be valuable for that.
• 03:15 If you have any Hours specific questions, feel free to put them to me on email,
• 03:19 my email will be in the description.
• 03:21 But I'm looking forward to sharing more with you in the next feature.
• 03:24 Thank you very much and I'll see you in the next feature.
• 03:26 Cheers.

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