Know where the hours actually went

What it is

A timer that attaches to a task instead of to a stopwatch app. You start it from the task, and the time it collects is stored against that task — which is why it can be rolled up afterwards per task, per list and per workspace without anyone keeping a second spreadsheet. It is a Premium Plus and Team feature; the free and Premium plans do not include it.

When you would use it

A freelancer sending an invoice at the end of the month needs to know that the webshop redesign ate 19 hours while the "quick" logo tweak took four. A small team wants to see where the week went before the next planning meeting. And anyone who has ever written "2h" in a timesheet at 18:00 on Friday — while having no memory of Friday morning — wants the number to have been collected, not remembered.

How it works in Taskr

1. Start tracking from the task. The task menu has Start tracking; the row then shows a live elapsed-time badge and a tracker pill stays visible across the dashboard, so you can see the clock running while you work in another list.
2. Stop it, or let the next start stop it. One timer runs per person. Starting a timer on a different task stops the one that was running, and the time stays on the task where it was actually tracked.
3. Answer the reminder. Each account has a reminder interval for the tracker (60 minutes by default, set in the tracker settings tab). When it is reached, a confirmation window opens with the time so far and how long you have before the tracker stops; continuing adds another interval, stopping closes the entry. If it is not answered within two minutes, the timer stops on its own.
4. Read the statistics per list. The list menu has View stats: the tracked total, a 14-day trend, the tasks the time went into, who contributed and which timers are running right now.
5. Or look at the whole workspace. The workspace statistics page shows the same picture one level up, so a client project can be reviewed without opening each list.

What to watch out for

Time tracking is Premium Plus and Team only — not free, not Premium. In a shared workspace the statistics respect roles: a viewer or editor sees only their own tracked time, while the owner and moderators see the whole workspace including the contributor breakdown. A tracker that is already running can always be stopped and confirmed even if the plan changes underneath it, so no time is ever stranded mid-session; starting a new one is what needs the feature on the plan. Deleted tasks and lists do not silently disappear from the statistics either — their rows stay with the real name and a deleted badge, so an old report still adds up.

Where to go next

• Team collaboration, for the roles that decide who sees whose hours
• Workspaces, for how statistics are scoped to one workspace
• Guides: browse the Taskr guides

Create a free account and start with the board — time tracking is a click away when you need it.