No matter how much we hate it, the billable hour prevails. For me keeping time has always been a hassle. I have used post it notes, the jackets of a file, a dedicated notebook and then once a week entered the time into the firm’s billing software.
The Time Sheet below is my answer to that. It is a PDF that works in Reader and supports the full range of commenting tools, including the typewriter, stamps, and even file attachments.
I also made a Time Portfolio that includes a number of time Sheets in a PDF Portfolio. Commentators rarely talk about Portfolios in Acrobat 9 its predecessor the “Package” in Acrobat 8. As a hybrid of document and file, they have numerous uses.
I like them for law libraries and some companies, Abode included, are promoting them as the perfect way to organize real estate closing documents; and they are. In Step three of the Paperless Express, I’ll go into Acrobat, Commenting, Security, and Packages. Learning about them is certainly worth the time.
Of course, if you have Acrobat, you can use the same approach to track time directly on any PDF you are using. Download the PDF Time Sheet.