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.

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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