Automatic Time Tracking
Brad Warner
We pay our employees hourly. We also track time against projects. However, we don't want two separate time tracking systems - one for payroll and one for projects. There are too many systems and silos in this digital age to remember everything.
The Problem: Time doesn't get tracked accurately, doesn't get tracked at all OR there's misallocations in projects/payroll.
Alternatives: Now, there are third-party products that attempt to auto-track time across an entire system: Timely, RescueTime, etc. but they have not arrived. However, within ClickUp itself, automatic time tracking could work.
Solution: Open a task and the timer starts. It doesn't matter where the user goes, what they do (which apps, browsers, etc.), time will be tracking against that task. ClickUp will periodically ask if the user is still working on that task (providing a quick means of switching to one of the top 5 MRU tasks, if need be).
Feature: Implement an option (in Settings) that automatically starts and stops tracking time when a task is opened and closed, respectively. It's assumed this would require a certain way of working (always tracking against some project). The upshot would encourage focused work, accurately track employee time and overcome tracking forgetfulness.
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Elisabeth G
It'd be better if we clock in and can clock out, take lunch and use the project tracking to understand what they are doing, otherwise, you are working by moving projects, but there is no generalized time tracking. ... because creating stuff or taking a call doesn't always have a task when you start .
Actually, if you could click on a space and it would track your time. and then everything would just automatically track what you did, where you went while you were logged in. and then group it and give you a summary of each. space you worked in?
So if you click on a task to start looking at it, it would just start logging your time. or when you click into a space to start reading notes and stuff it starts tracking your time
Arun Goswami
Much Needed.
Anthony C.
Anthony C.
Anthony C.
Merged in a post:
Add automation to automatically start and stop timer when it moves in/out of a status
T.R. Staake
It would be great to have the timer start when I move something out of one or more specified status and into one or more different specified statuses. This all while still being able to start and stop time recording manually.
Hieu Huynh
Clickup should automatically tracked time based on time between start time and end time if both were set.
Lasse Schuirmann
Hey, we made an extension that does this because we had the same issue: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/clickup-automatic-time-tr/ebfcpcpoceehlcjajnoljfgdgkonokbj
It's early beta, if you have any issues, please send us an email to info@founderblocksio
Zeb
Lasse Schuirmann Wow this is cool!
Lasse Schuirmann
Zebyep, by now a couple of companies I am involved in have adapted it and seen massively higher accuracy in time tracking. (We're lacking a bit of budget to extend and maintain it as well as we would like though.)
Zeb
Lasse Schuirmann: We'll get something planned for this soon, a bunch of time tracking improvements on the way!
Vladislav Grabovoy
Lasse Schuirmann really cool extension and something clickup lack of. Thank you very much! Also provided feedback in your form.
Nathan George
Automatically changing which task is being tracked for time would help me more accurately analyze where I spend my time. It takes too much time to manually switch the timer between about 50 tasks per day.
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Andrew Tomassetti
This would be very valuable in ensuring time is actually tracked, as even myself administrating ClickUp find myself forgetting to log entries. An addition I would add to auto time tracking is recurring tasks (these are great when used for meeting minutes..meetings are typically the same time blocks..the time tracked should recur as well)
Natalie Sandford
I am in and out of tasks all the time managing the database, so the auto start/stop tiime tracking when a task is opened would be detrimental to my time tracking (as I setup tasks for others).
pixojoy
Natalie Sandford: do you think it would help to have a global toggle for “auto-track mode” to detect tasks marked for autotracking? Maybe users could be prompted to stack tasks inside of the Tray for swapping during said auto-track mode — as to prevent accidental tracking.
Natalie Sandford
pixojoy: the less I have to re-train staff to track their time the better. The 2 year struggle over this issue (accurate allocation of/and time tracking) has slowly gotten much better and to ask people to change the way they do it now would not be well received.
pixojoy
Natalie Sandford: ah yeah, in that case a global toggle might end up complicating things. Thanks for your perspective on this.
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