Timers and manual entries

Track live or add time after the fact — with pausing, multi-task splits, editing, and the slips ProjectPacer flags.

Time gets into ProjectPacer two ways: a live timer while you work, or a manual entry afterward. They produce the same kind of entry, so use whichever fits. Everything here happens on Track.

Website redesignHomepage hero · Acme Co01:24:36TODAYStandup + planningInternal0:45Client call — scope reviewAcme Co · Billable1:10
The Track screen — a running timer above today's logged entries.

The running timer

The timer sits at the top of Track and follows you around — it also shows in the sidebar from every screen, so you always know it's going.

Pick a project

Click the project field and type to filter. Optionally add a description and, if you use them, a task (or several — see multi-task below).

Press Start

It runs live and survives page changes, closed tabs, and overnight — until you stop it.

Pause to step away

Pause freezes the elapsed time and resumes where it left off — good for interruptions you don't want counted. Stop ends the block and saves it.

Capture first, label later

Started working before choosing a project? Start the timer anyway and set the project when you stop. Better to catch the time than lose it.

Splitting time across tasks

Worked on a few tasks in one sitting? Attach multiple tasks to one entry and ProjectPacer splits the duration evenly across them on your reports — so a two-hour block across two tasks reads as an hour each, without you doing the math. Attaching several tasks at once is a desktop feature; on mobile an entry carries one task.

Finished tasks stay out of the picker

The task picker lists live work only — a task marked Done (or a linked GitHub issue that's Closed) is hidden so the list stays short and current. It isn't gone: it's still on the board, still holds its tracked time, and a task already attached to an entry keeps showing there even after it's finished.

Tag time by task type

If your workspace defines task types (Design, Development, PM…), a Task type picker appears on the timer and the manual-entry/edit form so you can categorize any entry — not just time tracked against a task or a task-type-billing engagement. It's optional, and you can then group the Hours report by task type to see where the time went.

Only shows when your workspace has task types

The Task type picker (and the report grouping) appear only once an admin has set up task types under Settings → Rates → Task types. No task types? Nothing extra shows up — Track stays uncluttered.

Add time manually

Forgot to hit start, or logging something from earlier?

Open a manual entry

On Track, choose + Add manually instead of starting the timer.

Set the times and project

Enter a start and end time, pick the project, add a description. Times use your own time zone — set it in Preferences if it looks off.

Save

It lands alongside your timed entries — once saved, there's no difference.

Editing and fixing

Edit entryPROJECTWebsite redesign · Acme CovDESCRIPTIONHomepage heroSTART9:00 AMEND10:24 AMBillableDelete
Click any entry to edit its project, description, and times — or add one by hand with the same fields.

Click any entry to reopen the editor and change its project, description, or times — or delete it. (Whether time counts as billable is derived from the project's rates and engagement, not a per-entry switch.) Everything stays editable until a finished period is locked, an optional control that's off by default (see Timesheets & approvals).

Some cleanups need a source; some don't

Overlaps and duplicates are flagged from your existing entries — no setup. Catching a timer left running overnight needs an activity source connected. Either way, the flags show up under AI suggestions, not on this screen.

Tasks and boards

Break a project into trackable work and time against it directly.

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