Using the timer

Start a timer when you start working. Finish it when you’re done, and it becomes a time entry with the arithmetic already done.

Start one

1. Start a timer, and pick a project.

2. Optionally add a note now. Some projects require one — if yours does, you’ll be asked for it before the timer can finish.

3. Go and do the work. The timer keeps running while you’re elsewhere in the app, and it keeps running if you close the tab.

Finish it

Finish turns the elapsed time into a normal time entry. You get to check the details before it saves — same fields and same rules as if you’d typed it by hand.

From there it’s an ordinary entry. It appears on your calendar and you can edit it.

Pause, resume, and keeping several on the go

This is the part worth knowing, because it’s more useful than it looks.

You can have as many timers as you like. Only one runs at a time.

Keep a timer for each thing you’re juggling. Start or resume any one of them and whichever was running pauses automatically — it doesn’t stop, and it doesn’t lose its accumulated time. Come back to it later and Resume picks up where it left off.

So a normal interrupted day looks like this:

• Timer on Contact Centre Migration, running.
• A support question comes in. Resume your Managed Support timer — the migration timer pauses itself.
• Deal with it, then resume the migration timer. Support pauses.
• End of the day, finish both. Two accurate entries, no arithmetic, nothing reconstructed from memory.

Your paused timers are listed under the running one, so you can see what’s on the go.

You don't have to pause manually

Starting or resuming another timer pauses the current one for you. There’s a Pause button for when you’re stepping away from everything — lunch, a meeting you’re not logging — and nothing else is taking over.

Discard

Discard throws a timer away without creating a time entry. Use it when you started one by mistake or on the wrong project.

Discarding is the only way to lose a timer’s time — pausing never does.

If you forget to stop it

You will. Everyone does.

If a timer runs for 12 hours, the app sends you a Slack message asking whether you’re still on it. Nothing is written to your timesheet until you finish the timer, so one left running overnight doesn’t quietly log fourteen hours — it just sits there with a large number on it.

When you do finish it, correct the duration before saving. It’s far easier to fix in the moment than to reconstruct on Friday.

Forgot to start it?

Don’t fight it — log the entry by hand. The timer is a convenience, not the point. The point is that the time gets recorded.

From Slack

If you’re already in Slack, you don’t need the app:

/timer start Migration     Start a timer (partial project name is fine)
/timer pause               Pause it
/timer resume              Resume it
/timer stop                Finish it and write the entry
/timer                     What's running?

Add a note when you start with --:

/timer start Migration -- dial plan mapping