MultiTimer is a utility for keeping track of the time you spend on your various Mac-related projects, jobs, tasks and pastimes. The main instructions to MultiTimer are within the program itself, available under the Apple and ╥Help╙ menus. In this file I╒ll fill in a few additional points. Most of this probably won't be of much interest or meaning to you until you've read the main instructions and spent some time using MultiTimer. After using it for a while, you may have accumulated some questions -- which I hope will be answered here.
MultiTimer keeps its accumulated information in a file called ╥MultiTimer Data╙, which it creates in the same folder the MultiTimer application is in. If you move MultiTimer to another folder and want to keep your information, move MultiTimer Data as well. Conversely, you can trash this file to get rid of all timer modules and start over. Log files are kept separately, in a folder MultiTimer creates called ╥MultiTimer Logs╙.
The total times shown in a Log file may not appear to be a valid total of the session times shown in the Log. There are several possible reasons for this:
* MultiTimer keeps track of seconds internally, even though it doesn't display them. This can cause small discrepancies as these invisible seconds are added up and rounded off.
* If you manually adjust the total time for a day, week, etc. by clicking on a number in MultiTimer's main window and using the arrow controls, the totals shown in the Log file may no longer reflect the arithmetic totals of the individual sessions.
* When you manually adjust the total time, that adjustment won't appear in a Log file until you start and end an actual session (using the timer start/stop button). Note also that sessions of less than one minute won't be recorded.
* If you turn on log keeping in a module after that module has been used for one or more sessions, those previous sessions will of course not appear in the Log file. The already-accumulated totals for the module will appear, however.
In MultiTimer's Preferences dialog, one of the settings is "Save data every __ minutes". This gives you some protection against losing records of your sessions if your Mac should crash. If your Mac should crash during a session, the record of that session will not appear in the Log file (if you have log keeping turned on). The time of the session will be added to the total for that day, week, etc. however, so a record of your time won't be completely lost.
The current release of MultiTimer is 2.0.2. This version fixes an occasional problem 2.0 and 2.0.1 had with manually changing the total time in a module, and has several other minor fixes.
MultiTimer requires System 7.0 or later; System 7.1 or later is recommended.
