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Buttons840 ◴[] No.41838783[source]
I might buy this to use as follows.

I want a work-time tracker that lights a bright LED every 5 minutes or so, and as long as I'm there and working I smash a button and the light goes off for another 5 minutes. Some algorithm tracks the times I have hit the button and displays how long I have been working on said task.

I'm picturing something fairly cheap, like a stop watch or 3 button kitchen timer. A LED, a few buttons, a LCD display, a AAA battery slot, and an internal timing circuit is all that's needed (and a case to hold it together).

This would basically be a stop watch that stops on its own if neglected, and I can imagine a few uses for it.

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0cf8612b2e1e ◴[] No.41838941[source]
I assume lawyers have some mechanism like this already. Law firms can require staff to allocate every 6-8 minutes of their day. Which sounds terrible and likely to be wildly inaccurate as people cannot be bothered to invest that much overhead into their job.
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1. joshvm ◴[] No.41839343[source]
This is how Swiss medical appointments are billed. I forget exactly how granular, but it's pretty small - 5-10 minutes. As a result, you tend to be quite efficient when going to the GP, because it’s a few Francs a minute

If I retain a lawyer at $1k an hour, you bet I want 5 minute billing.

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2. mattkrause ◴[] No.41840254[source]
Sadly for you, I think 6 minute increments (i.e., 0.1 of an hour) might be more common.