Charm is cross-platform software for professionals who needs to keep track time spent on projects or students who want to plan their studies.
It is built around two major ideas – tasks and events.
It is free and open source software built with Qt 5.11.
Key Features
- Add comments to tasks.
- Every time time is recorded for a task, an event is created.
- Activity Reports group all events that happened in a certain time frame, like a day or a week. They are useful to provide an overview of what was worked on during that time.
- Time Sheets are created per week, and group event time to tasks and week days. Time sheets can be saved in XML format.
- Export database.
- Cross-platform software.
Website: github.com/KDAB/Charm
Support:
Developer: Frank Osterfeld (initially Mirko Boehm) and contributors (Mike McQuaid (former maintainer), Till Adam, David Faure, Nuno Pinheiro, Pradeepto Batthacharya, Katrina Niolet, Nicholas Van Sickle, Jesper K. Pedersen, Sebastian Sauer, Michel Boyer de la Giroday, Hannah von Reth)
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
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