When is time tracking too accurate? When you're billing

When I was freelancing, I would start by executing on the project and typing. I'd stop in-between to think and read docs, but usually I'd begin and end the day by typing. That's why billing by tracking typing worked for me. Even if I had long meetings one day, I could look at that day's chart and see total hours worked since the start/end times are shown.

I wrote this post for contractors who already use WakaTime, to raise awareness of the timeout feature.

You always have to track time when contracting, this just automates it for you. A client asking you to use WakaTime's individual private dashboard is just looking out for you and trying to make your work easier so you can focus on bringing them more value instead of spending time tracking your time.

If they ask you to share your WakaTime project with them, that's when they're focused on the wrong things.

Lol, no it's: When you need to bill you're client, decrease granularity to include non-coding tasks. WakaTime is a very accurate log of the time you were typing, it's just one part of what you should bill for.