The week is over and I’m wondering where it went. Truly, it seems like Monday was only yesterday and suddenly it’s Friday.

RescueTime to the rescue. RescueTime is a free (for a basic account) piece of software that runs on the Mac and in Windows. It runs in the background and you won’t ever notice it’s doing its thing. All the while, it’s watching you. It’s keeping tabs on what you’re doing, what software your using, what websites you’re visiting, etc.

Then, at the end of week that went by too quickly, you can run a report and figure out where your time went. You might even find some time you forgot to bill.

RescueTime even lets you set productivity levels for activities. You could set Westlaw up with a +2 and DrudgeReport with a -2. You can set up targets for productivity and see how your day rates once it’s over.

You might want to install RescueTime on every computer in your office. There’s no telling where the time is going. You might find that your co-workers and employees are also losing some time.

RescueTime might just help you solve the problem of the days getting shorter and shorter as you get older. They claim they recover nearly four hours a week for the average user.