The Outlook Journal is great for time management because many things can be recorded automatically, the entries can be tied to tasks or appointments elasewhere in Outlook, and using Chapura PocketJournal (www.chapura.com), you can have a portable version on your PalmOS device for recording time spent outside the office.

JournalMetrics is a simple yet useful application that generates useful reports from Journal Entries in Microsoft Outlook. This allows you to easily generate time reports and itemized timesheets based on how your time is recorded in the Journal.

Click the ... button next to the start and end date to filter the report by date, or enter a string into the Category box to filter on category, or any combination thereof.

Press Generate report for a text based report of time spent, or Generate CSV for a csv file with Dates as the columns and Categories as the rows. There will be a column for each day in the range specified, and a row for each category represented in the aggregate.