Furtherance

Furtherance is a time tracker for the Linux desktop, published by Ricky Kresslein. Programs of this kind exist to answer a narrow question: how much time went into a given task. That usually means starting and stopping a timer while work is in progress, or entering an interval afterwards, and keeping the resulting records attached to a task or project name so they can be read back later.

This entry is compiled from packaging metadata rather than from working with the application, so the particulars — how entries are edited, what reporting or export formats exist, where the data file lives — are not described here. The metadata does fix one boundary clearly: only Linux builds are listed. There are no Windows or macOS packages, so it fits people whose day-to-day work already happens on a Linux desktop.

The licence is GPL-3.0-or-later, which means the source may be read, modified and redistributed on the same terms. That is worth knowing if you intend to keep long-term access to your own time records or expect to adapt the program to a particular billing or reporting habit.