If you’re anything like me you are wondering how it’s 6 o’clock already and what happened to the rest of the day.

Enter RescueTime, a new service I just found that tracks your time on the computer. It’s super simple; you install a piece of software which sends the applications and websites you use to RescueTIme’s API. When you log into your dashboard all the applications/web sites and their cumulative usage times are displayed.

You can take it a step further and “tag” each application however you choose. For example I tagged Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator “design.” Now in my dashboard I can see I was in Photoshop for 15 minutes, Illustrator for 7 minutes and “design” for 22 minutes.

They just released a new version this week and it looks pretty promising. I started using it today but it will certainly be interesting to see what I’ve been up to after I spend a week or two on the system. The individual license is free and there are group plans available for a monthly fee.