What it does
Times a piece of work, then copies it to your clipboard as one spreadsheet row, ready to paste into your timesheet.
- Date Time
- Project
- Activity
- Time Spent
- Notes
Date Time is when you pressed Start (DD/MM/YYYY HH:MM). Time Spent is HH:MM:SS. Columns are separated by tabs, so each one lands in its own cell.
How to use it
- Press Start when you begin.
- Type in the Notes box whenever you like, before or during. It is optional.
- Press Stop. Enter the project (names you have used this session are suggested), pick an activity and check the notes.
- Press Copy & save, or Enter. Paste the row into your spreadsheet.
- At the end of the day, Copy all copies every entry from this session in the order they happened.
Features
- Activities are grouped into Project and BAU. Travel is in both Project and BAU, and is written as Travel either way. Pick Other for anything else and describe it. You cannot save Other with the description empty. What you type goes into the Activity column.
- Off sick or on leave? Press Sickness or Leave above Recent entries. Pick the first and last day; you get one entry per weekday, 7 hours each (or a half day, or hours you type). Untick bank holidays and days you don’t work. The Project column says Absence, all the rows are copied together, and you can log future leave. Absence never triggers the overlap warning, so you can still log work done on those days. Editing an absence entry lets you switch it between Sickness and Leave.
- Recent entries lists everything saved this session. Use the copy icon to copy one again, Copy all for the lot, or Clear to empty the list.
- Edit an entry with the pencil icon. Saving copies the corrected row, so paste it over the old one in your spreadsheet. Delete with the bin icon. You get a few seconds to undo, and you will need to remove the row from your spreadsheet yourself.
- Forgot to press Start? While timing, press Adjust under the clock to move the start earlier. Forgot to press Stop? Change the start or the time spent in the Stop box before you save.
- If an entry's time overlaps another entry, you are warned, but you can still save.
- Today, above Recent entries, totals the time saved today. Each entry counts towards the day it started. Entries on any other day, such as yesterday’s work or next week’s leave, are totalled separately as Other days.
- Pause appears next to Stop while the timer runs. Paused time is not counted, and the timer shows how long it has been paused. Press Resume to carry on, or Stop to save without resuming.
- While the timer runs, the browser tab shows the elapsed time, with ⏸ in front while paused.
- Discard always asks first, as do Escape and clicking outside the box, so you cannot lose recorded time by accident.
- If you try to close or refresh the page while the timer is running or paused, or with an entry not yet saved, the browser warns you first.
- Light and dark mode: the button to the right of this one.
Your data
Nothing leaves your browser. There are no cookies, no tracking and no server storage.
The timer, notes and recent entries are lost when you refresh or close the tab. Project suggestions and your light or dark choice last until the tab is closed. Paste anything you need to keep before you close it.
Tip
Install it as an app so links from Outlook or Teams do not open in the timer's window. In Edge: ⋯ > Apps > Install this site as an app. In Chrome: ⋯ > Cast, save and share > Install page as app.