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Populate client, task and tool tables

Populate the tables (1/2) You should first defines the clients you are working for. Actually the concept of a "client" can be tweaked to designate your own business if your spend some time investing on R&D, your employer if you are a homeworker, or even nothing if you record the time spent on, say, a model making hobby project.

For the later case just create an empty record in the client table. You will then be able to select that "nobody client" when creating a project (next step). Actually you can also use empty records in the task and tool tables described below, but you will then miss several usefull reporting capabilities of yatish.

A "task" is a recurring kind of activity, meaning that it might be relevant to different activities. For instance, a "development" task can typically be found in different IT projects. The same applies to the "tool" concept, which also allows you to document the various activities you are involved in; going on with the IT project example, a "tool" might be a programming langage, a software suite, a web conferencing service, etc.

The client, task or tool records are quite simple (just one name field): the dialog used to create/modify them is described here.