Grindstone is a unique and innovative approach to individual task managament and time tracking. Grindstone is a project management and time tracking tool you can use to organize the tasks you're working on and accurately record and report on the time you've spent working on them.

Today, project management systems expect you to manually enter all of your time. In the future, you would expect these systems to figure out how you have been spending your time on their own. Well, the future is now at Epiforge. Grindstone is your first step forward into that world, greatly simplifying everything about staying on top of your time, from automatically recording it to producing useful reports based on it.

When we got started making Grindstone, we knew we had to do more than just make it easy to use, we had to make it intensely functional while remaining extremely accommodating. And we did. Just tell Grindstone what you're working on and it will keep tabs on your time in the background while you work. Incorporating automatic away detection, advanced task and time management functions, and customizable billing calculation, Grindstone is the most powerful personal time tracking solution, period.

Grindstone has also introduced a highly extensible architecture for customized data, much more than you'd expect from a project management and time tracking solution for a single user. Using Custom Fields, you can track anything you like along with your tasks, such as which client they're for, what project they're a part of, or related web sites or e-mail addresses. And all of the task management functions available will automatically work with these new pieces of data: groupable, searchable, sortable.

Grindstone has a unique role on your system. It's a program that should be consistently available to you, but as a consequence of it's function--keeping track of your time while you're working so you don't have to--it shouldn't be your computer's focus. That is why we have carefully scrutinized and continuously improve Grindstone's speed and consumption of system resources. We've worked hard to ensure Grindstone won't interfere with your work, even if your job involves pushing your computer to its limits.

We have also recognized that project management and time tracking systems tend to counter your productivity by requiring too much of your time to configure and operate. That is why Grindstone's interface is designed to be smaller and more straightforward by comparison. Through consistent review of common user workflow, we've endeavored to reduce the required amount of interaction with Grindstone to a bare minimum so that you can achieve incredible accuracy with regard to your time while concentrating the vast majority of your efforts on actually working.

We have refined and refined Grindstone to make it essential, to make it efficient, to make it honest. But like I said, this is only the beginning. We are already building the service that will allow you and your colleagues to pull all your time together, to make informed scheduling decisions more easily and vastly simplify billing.

Please enjoy using Grindstone and let us hear about your experiences with it, whether they're good, bad, or ugly. We're proud parents, but there is always room for improvement, and we're committed to keeping Grindstone as functional, efficient, stable, and usable as possible.

The license of this software is Freeware, you can free download and free use this project management software.