Hello everyone and welcome back to the Keep productive YouTube channel today's video. We'll be checking out an application called busy
It's a time tracking application that allows you to create
Projects track clients and even invoice them as well as well as producing a report for you
and/or your team's
Details of their work that they've done now
We'll be over viewing the features the pricing and all that you need to know about this application
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So here we are on the application busy
Now when you get started, you may want to check out the pricing
The pricing is fairly reasonable. Its
traditional for a time tracking tool to have this sort of pricing
They have a website called busy door n o but just to be aware. I think there are in a Weejun company
So you may need to select the language English to be able to get that site in
English now just when you do that
If you didn't want to learn Norwegian for this one, you'll be able to access the pricing at the top here
So they do have four types of pricing
They have a busy single user which is essentially their free plan, which is probably quite good
So those who are looking to just have a really basic?
analysis of their time for free
And that gives you two active projects and one user account, but if you want to do they have three
additional pricing plans they have
internal hours client hours and pro
internal hours this want more for companies looking to track their salary their
Vacation time and they leave and it includes and calculates over time and time balance
But client hours is more for those who are freelancers maybe of those companies at work
outsourcing a lot of their work or
Insourcing or all and naturally it will do invoicing and they have a pro which is a combination between the two
inside of the internal hours account you get one company internal project and
internal hours vacation salary and calculated overtime inside of the client hours plan you get
500 active
Projects which is quite a lot. But then again you do need to calculate these client hours for the project's project manage and
Basis for invoicing so here we are on busy
Now you get this timeline view over here so you can see your week ahead
You can see here
Any of the logged hours the billed hours and you can see this red line is your current time
But you can get started going to drag the timer or start the timer up here
I will just show you around the account before we dive into doing that
So here you get the reports and when you start adding the details to it in which were due in a moment of the time
Tracked you'll be able to see useful reports that will give you useful data here
You have something that is only available through the pro plan
But it's a the ability to manage overtime leave and time off per employee
And this can be helpful specifically when you're trying to take into account holidays
Employees working hours and come his internal routines
Now down here in the free plan. You do get to active projects
So in this case, I've made one here you can see that this is for the topic aside
But you can also add projects and you can add a client and up here
you can see the total amount of clients active clients and
archived clients
You can also add tags as well tags are helpful for being to associate certain types of work
so in this case, I could say writing out or editing or filming if you were a freelancer and
Finally, there's people which allows you to see all of the tip people you've added your account and that's handy for if you've got teams
Which you can break down and activate
So going back to the Timeline view if I wanted to be able to add a time slot of recording here
It actually looks really attracted to add that and as you can see here gives you the duration straightaway
now if you went and created this without actually
You know like choosing a project or you didn't have any project started. It actually wasn't associated to it
So in this case, I'm a so in this case. I may want to say
YouTube and I may want to go ahead and create a new tag
So in this case, I'm going to add a tag of
recording
Go ahead and create the tag and confirm and if I go back to Timeline view
It should still be there so I can go ahead and associate it to recording only and in this case. It's not actually
It's all picker related so I could go ahead but in this case that's just associated to tool picker and I can even go
In and modify the times if I want to
You can also lock entry or remove it and you can even open this up to see whether it's billable or not
but in this case
I actually went to the project view and if I click in you can set this up so that it doesn't become billable
So you're not forced to add a budget in there or?
Billable hours. So we'll show you how that works on the freelancing side of staff. So it saved it and as you can see
You can see that the sensitivity of it as well. If you're sharing it you can add the confidentiality if it's a meeting
To confidential or private but let me go ahead and add a few additional items
So I've gone ahead and created a new project called new introduction video for website and have an addict line Simon Ward
I've also made this billable so we can actually see the project free and I couldn't even set a billing
So for example, I'm going to say 50 pound per hour
so if I go back to the time tracking and I say I wanted to be able to
Associate this to the new introduction video and I wanted to say I want to do in some editing
Then I can go ahead and add that there
If I pop this open I could say that I wanted to do say I'm going to make this billable
25 minutes was available and
as you can see here a
indication that
45% of the time was actually billable time
So maybe that was consultation or actually the editing part once I did some of the research
So up here I've added a recording section and I'm also gonna add another 30 minutes for some work
I did on tool picker. So I'm gonna say added quizzes
So you starting to see the ability to
organize and plan
Previous bits of time that you've sorted you can see here that I've longer a total of five hours
I can even go to my overview and see this as more of a sort of blockage of how I've spent my day
Instead of necessarily the week view like this so up here. I've started to timer as well for a specific activity
I'm working on
So this is where the reports come in if I go over to the report section
I can see the status of the certain activities
I've got and in this case the new introduction video for the website has totaled up to a hundred and sixty six pound
ninety sixty seven
So if I click into this I can actually get breakdown of the time that I've spent
On the actual project and you can see here all of those times that I've logged as well
You can see a breakdown of what people actually worked on this project and the percentage of billable time
And also a breakdown of the tags views
so for example if I wanted to see how much was
Recording and I can even see a week view and a month view as well
I'm here. I can export that data
Which is pretty handy to do as well if I went back here and I went to the tool picker section
I could see that as wow the same sort of data that could be useful and
See a breakdown there. So if you add any
Tasks to the future to be done. You can see them but they will be grayed out
so in this case
It will give you an idea of what you will be working on in the future and I'll help you plan ahead
Now up in the settings
You can change a few things
For example, whether you enable categories clients and teams as well as being able to modify your profile
There are some integrations with Google Calendar and Outlook calendar so you can actually sync them up allowing you to see you're busy
type events inside of your Google Calendar, so
All in all this is a super basic time tracking
application that has some really nice design and you are
For be able to start tracking and I can imagine as time goes on as teams. Look to manage their projects
They'll be able to get useful reports and data as well as for those who are managing internally this seems like a really nice
easy-to-use tool the iPhone application looks really good and it seems to be
Reasonably priced especially if you're just using it for yourself. We'll just want to trial it before you get started. So
Folks hopefully that was a useful overview of busy. It's a fairly new application
So I'll make sure to include all the details below and I hope you enjoyed today's video if you've managed to check out busy feel
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Thank you very much folks, and I'll talk to you all very soon. Cheers ever. Bye
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