Interruption

It happens all the time. You're concentrating on a billable task for a client when the phone rings or someone walks into your office. You have to stop what you're doing and do something else. Time Tagger has a feature called Interruption for just this kind of thing.

As soon as you get interrupted in your work, switch into Time Tagger and click the Start Interruption button in the toolbar at the top of the window. You can also press I.

The Time Slice you are working on gets suspended and a new Time Slice is created, with the "Interruption" tag already turned on. You can turn on other tags to indicate what you are doing during the interruption. For example, you might turn on the tags "Personal" and "Phone Call" if you're taking a call from your spouse.

When you're ready to get back to work, bring Time Tagger to the front and click Finish Interruption. Time Tagger will record the time you spent on the interruption and then will take you right back to what you were working on before. The Time Slice list will look something like this:

You can open the Preferences Window to set Time Tagger to start an interruption any time your screensaver is activated.

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