TimeTable 3
Get your calendar data out into the world
$19.99 Developer Steven Riggs, stevenriggs.com Requirements OS X 10.10 or later
Aside from scheduling events or printing calendars for future reference, schedule data stored in Apple’s Calendar remains mostly out of reach to other software. TimeTable 3 makes Mac calendars more versatile by exporting event data that can be used for time tracking, invoicing, or a variety of other organizational needs.
Unlike the more visual layout of traditional calendar apps, TimeTable presents daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly event data as a list. Default start dates, calendar names, and titles are displayed in columns that can be resized, sorted, or rearranged to create custom layouts which can be saved and reused; other column types including Location and web address can be enabled in the app’s preferences. It’s easy to search events or jump to a specific beginning or ending date with a few clicks.
TimeTable extrapolates the event length into a unique Hours column, which is used to display a real-time tally of combined hours and/or minutes you’ve devoted to calendar
events during the selected period, along with minimum, maximum, and average totals. Depending upon how you schedule events, this data is useful for calculating billable hours by applying an hourly rate, which works in tandem with the Cost column.
We typically schedule a lot of all-day tasks such as birthdays, which TimeTable interprets to be 24 hours long. You can globally adjust the length of all-day events to anything from zero to 24 hours, or exclude
this type of entirely, if so desired. You can also disable certain calendars to keep them from being included in TimeTable’s calculations. The only problem is there’s no way to see which accounts they belong to; we wound up with multiple calendars with the same name from iCloud and Gmail.
This inconvenience aside, TimeTable makes it super-easy to export calendar data in a few different formats: comma-separated CSV or tab-separated TSV files for use in an Excel or Numbers spreadsheet; as a plain text file; or by sending the neatly formatted results directly to a new outgoing message in Apple Mail. Finally, there’s also an option to export only events that have notes added.
the bottom line. Priced at $20, this utility is destined to be strictly for die-hard calendar jockeys.