Tracking time on a task, issue or feature

Time is tracked against the item you are working on, not against the project as a whole, and it is measured in man-days: one man-day is four hours. Only tasks, issues and features or changes can be tracked. Personal tasks and client requests cannot, because neither is contracted project work.

1. Open the task, issue or feature. In the About this task panel on the right you will find a Time block with what you have logged on it so far.
2. Click Start timer. A pill appears in the top bar with the running clock and the item it belongs to. It follows you around the app, so you never have to go back to the item to see it.
3. Click the pill to open it. Stop timer ends the timer in one click, with no confirmation, and the entry is saved rounded to the nearest minute. Under a minute is treated as a misclick and nothing is saved.
4. Starting a timer on a second item is allowed and stops the first one for you. The toast tells you what it stopped and how much it recorded.

Timers stop themselves in two other ways. Six hours is the ceiling for a timer started in the app, and a tab that goes quiet for half an hour is closed back to the last moment it was known to be there. Both cases produce an entry marked Needs review: it is in your list, but it counts towards nothing until you confirm or correct it.

To log time you already spent, click Log time in the same block.

1. How long takes hours and minutes plus the date the work happened. Start and end takes the two instants instead, read in your own time zone.
2. Add a note if the entry needs one.
3. An entry has to be at least a minute and at most twelve hours, cannot end in the future, and cannot be backdated more than thirty days.

My Time is where you reconcile.

1. The tiles show today, this week, how many entries are waiting to be confirmed, and how many have been waiting more than 48 hours. The last two tiles are also filters: click one and the list below narrows to it.
2. Entries are grouped by work day, newest first. Each row shows its state, the item, the clock times, and the man-days it counted.
3. Rows the safety layer closed carry an amber edge and say why. Click the tick to confirm one as it stands, the pencil to correct the times first, or the bin to remove it.
4. Confirm day at the right of a day heading confirms everything on that day that is still unconfirmed.

Days follow the company timezone, the same days a project is billed in, so a late night lands on the day it started.

When a project has a contracted man-day total, the project’s Time tab shows it: what has been used against what was sold, the alerts that have already fired at 80, 90 and 100 percent, and, past the contract, the overage as its own segment with a button to acknowledge it. Acknowledging is a record that somebody saw it. Nothing was ever blocked, and nothing is unblocked by it. The same tab splits the time by item and by person, and shows how much of the project went on rework: closing an issue asks for a Cause, and those answers are what that split is made of.