Time Tracking

Time Tracking records work directly inside each task using start/stop timers or manual entries, enforces one active timer per user, and shows live variance between logged and estimated hours.

How it works

Every task has a start timer button in the task detail panel and in List view. Taro enforces one active timer per user: starting a new timer automatically stops and logs the previous session. Work can also be logged manually with a duration, date, start time, and optional note, and every entry is labelled as timer-tracked or manual to keep the log auditable. A running session can be paused and resumed any number of times, and the final logged duration is total elapsed time minus paused intervals, stored as one entry. Tasks with an estimated hours field show live variance against logged hours, and the Time Tracked dashboard widget shows active timers, paused sessions, and totals across the team in real time.

Key capabilities

• Start, stop, pause, and resume timers per task, with one active timer per user enforced at every entry point.
• Manual time entries with date, start time, duration, and note, distinguished from timer entries.
• Live per-task variance between estimated and logged hours, highlighting overruns and spare capacity.
• Editable and deletable entries, with all changes logged in task history; entry type labels are immutable.
• Time Tracked dashboard widget showing team-wide active timers, today's totals, and sprint variance.
• Project-level and workspace-level time logs, filterable and exportable as CSV for billing.
• Over Budget alert integration: logged hours convert to cost at a configured hourly rate and fire alerts at 80 percent (Monitor) and 100 percent (Critical) of budget.

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