Timing your work
You can have TimeCache automatically track how much time you spend on a project/matter as you work on it. TimeCache allows you to start and stop timing your work in a number of different ways. Depending on what you're doing at the time and your preferences for interacting with your Mac, one method may work better for you than another.

Timing a new entry
The time entry popup window
When adding an entry to the Daily Log, you can begin timing by clicking the T icon in the data entry popup menu (when it's in the Hours column). You can substitute clicking the T icon with the keyboard shortcut Shift-⌘-T.

If you are already timing a line when you start timing another entry, TimeCache tells you which line you are timing and asks if you want to stop timing that line. Click OK to start timing the new line, or Cancel to leave things as they were.

NOTE: You can set TimeCache Preferences to allow timing multiple entries simultaneously, and thus avoid this confirmation dialog.

When an entry is being timed in the Daily Log, the line is highlighted in bold type and the timing highlight color (which you can set in TimeCache Preferences). TimeCache updates the charges and time for that line every 10 seconds, and shows the total for the day at the bottom right in italics.

Timing an existing entry
To start or resume timing a line already entered in the Daily Log, click on the Hours column for that line and click the T icon in the data entry popup menu that appears. Or use the keyboard shortcut, Shift-⌘-T.

TIP: You can skip the data entry popup window by holding down the Option key and clicking on the Hours or Charges column. This toggles timing or off. You can also choose Daily Log>Start Timing or Daily Log>Resume Timing to start or resume timing a highlighted entry, or Daily Log>Stop Timing to stop timing a highlighted entry.

The 'Stop timing' dialog
 
You can also start, resume or stop timing an entry by holding the mouse down over the "+" or "-" marker at the right end of a selected line and choosing the appropriate command from the popup menu that appears.

Another way to stop timing an entry is to click on that entry's Hours or Charges column and then click Stop in the resulting dialog.

Finally, you can start and stop timing an entry in the Daily Log by clicking the Stopwatch icon in the Daily Log toolbar. The icon displays a green triangle when timing can be resumed for the current selection in the Daily Log, or a red square when timing for the current selection can be stopped.

Using the TimeCache Dock icon menu and Remote window
TimeCache also lets you resume timing Daily Log entries when you're working in other applications either from its icon in the OS X Dock or from the TimeCache Remote window.

Dock icon: Control-click the icon to display a popup menu, and select the project you want to begin timing, or choose Resume Timing to resume timing a Daily Log entry. Stopping timing for a Daily Log can be handled in a similar fashion. In Mac OS 10.5 and earlier you click and hold the mouse down on the icon until the menu appears instead of Control-clicking.

Remote window: If you have TimeCache Preferences set to show the TimeCache Remote window and another application is activated so that the Remote window is showing, you can click its Resume Timing or Stop Timing buttons to resume or stop timing.

Timeout
You can set TimeCache Preferences to automatically stop timing an entry if there is no user input for a set amount of time. User input includes keyboard and mouse activity. For more information, see Timing in the Setting TimeCache Preferences section of TimeCache Help.

If no idle timeout is set, TimeCache continues timing a project until you stop it. If you try to close a file or quit TimeCache while you are timing a line, TimeCache asks if you want to stop timing before you close the file. Click Stop Timing and Close if you want to stop timing. Click Close File if you want to continue timing but close the file (or quit TimeCache). Click Cancel if you want to keep timing and keep the file open (or TimeCache running).