Captains Log is ready to help you easily keep track of the time you spend on different pc based projects. Use it to allow for completing invoices, filling in timecards, notifying charities of the time you spent on their work, etc.  However this page is under construction still - I just have not set up a way for you to pay me for an unlock key yet! However after you have downloaded and tried the software you could email me the $15 (I refuse to disguise this as $14.99!) using the contact info on the page, and I will email you an unlock / registration key to allow unlimited use.

View a (very poor initial trial) screen cast of Captains Log basic use

Download Captains Log*⁺

Free 30 day trial!

When you first trial run Captains Log you can save data for 30 days.

A day later you can save it for 29 days ....

and on day 30 you can save no data - until you buy a key.

Otherwise this is full functioning software!

* Note that this is a complete package including Access 2007 runtime and a "setup.exe" file for ease of installation. As a result this is a 62 MByte zip file and may take a while to download. Please read

and follow the README-FIRST file included in the zip before trying to install.

Please note that this version has been checked out for Windows XP SP3. It likely will work correctly in later versions of Windows - but this has not been checked - please let me know of problems and successes. Please download this Readme file before downloading either the program or help file.

Get a copy of the full help file for Captains Log here⁺

(⁺If there is a problem with running these downloads look for help here.)

But to wet your appetite, here is the first page of the help file -

• To make things very simple to start with, you can just use Captains Log rather like a single stop watch.
• Just run Captains Log, then when you start work click on the "NOT Working" box, which will change to "Working".
• When you stop working, click in the same box - it's a toggle.
• Keep alternating between "Working" and "Not Working" as required.
• When you want to know how much time you have spent, make sure "Not Working" is showing, and click the "QR" (Quick Report) Button.
• A pre-selected report pops up (you may need to enlarge its window by click and dragging a corner) and shows you the total time spent on project one.