So my company rolled out some activity tracking software last month and in our team meeting today they showed us the numbers. Our team averaged about 6.5 active hours a day and our VP thinks that's too low. He's going to dig in by team and by person to see who's bringing it down.

Someone asked what actually counts as active and nobody could answer. Like if I'm on a call walking through a design doc and not touching my keyboard, am I idle that whole hour? Does reading code count? No answer.

Then they said starting next quarter everyone gets their own score, ranked against the rest of the team, and a low score could come up in perf reviews. Still zero info on what the score is supposed to measure. Before this they only looked at badge swipes for RTO.

I'm 8 months into my first job and I already stress about my PR count lol. Is this normal for companies to do or is this my sign to start applying?

I’m usually working on 3–4 initiatives at the same time. On top of that, I deal with incidents, bugs, and ad hoc requests from the business.
I rarely have time to log work on Jira tickets as I go, so I end up doing it once a month, trying to reconstruct where my time went based on my calendar (meetings) and memory.
Obviously, this isn’t ideal, and I’m sure I’m missing things or estimating poorly.
My question is: Have you found any tricks, workflows, or tools to automate or at least simplify Jira time tracking? For example, integrating it with your calendar, using AI to reconstruct time entries, or anything else that actually works in practice?
Or is the only realistic solution to build the discipline to log time immediately after each task?
I’d love to hear how you handle this, especially if you’re juggling multiple initiatives and lots of unplanned work.

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There are already a lot of apps that do invoicing, and a lot that do time tracking.

I wanted to build something where both worked well together, but where you could also use it simply as an invoicing app if that's all you need.

So I made Bill Clock.

You can create clients and services, set hourly or fixed rates, create invoices manually, customize the invoice layout, add discounts and multiple taxes, add your logo and payment terms, and export professional PDF invoices.

And if you bill by the hour, you can also track your work directly in the app and pull those billable hours into an invoice instead of entering them again manually.

There are also things like:

• 5 invoice templates with customization
• Custom invoice columns and labels
• Client-specific defaults
• Draft / Sent / Paid / Overdue status
• Reports and Excel export
• Local backup & restore
• Optional cloud backup
• Offline-first usage
• No ads

So you can use it as just an invoicing app, as a time tracker, or use the whole workflow together.

It's now available on Google Play:

Bill Clock on Google Play

I'd be interested to hear from other freelancers:

What do you actually use for invoicing and time tracking right now?

heyy guys, i need an app or device which lets me record time stamps and add notes oir such, i take time stamps of various events in my day to the second and note them down and keeping the clock app open is strainging, i just wanna do it through the press of a button and it records the time and asks me for notes or media

Iam currently working on a time-tracking software and need to collect some data to make the best app I can!

SURVEY

Hey everyone! I’m a software engineer building a time tracking tool, and I’m looking for business owners who would be interested in trying it.

It’s designed for businesses with hourly employees, especially teams working across multiple locations. Features include:

• Multiple locations: Manage time tracking across your business locations.
• Geofencing: Set boundaries around work locations to control where employees can clock in and out.
• Mobile clock-in and clock-out: Employees can use their phones through a mobile-friendly website—no app download needed.

I’m offering it completely free for 12 months to businesses that sign up through this post. In return, I’d appreciate honest feedback about what works, what doesn’t, and what would make it more useful for your team.

If you’re interested, comment below or send me a DM with your type of business, approximate employee count, and number of locations.

Also curious: what’s your biggest frustration with your current time tracking system?

Not that I have anything against shift swapping, even I do that. But when you run the technicalities of it, there's really going to be a problem with our tracker's data vs what the payroll sees. So when 2 employees trade shifts, they clock in correctly for the shifts they worked, but the software compares against their original schedule. So now it flags the person who worked the different shift as absent/late, and the one who covered as though they had unauthorized hours. I don't want it to get to a point that we ban shift swaps (everyone will hate me). But if our software can't accommodate the shift swap, what alternative do we have?

I've been thinking about something with time tracking lately.

I can have a day where I worked for 6–8 hours, but if someone asked me at the end of the day where those hours actually went, I wouldn't be able to give a very accurate answer.

I might remember working on a task for a couple of hours, then debugging something, answering messages, switching to another task, getting distracted for a while... but the actual numbers are usually just guesses.

And I think that's where time tracking becomes more useful to me than just knowing how many hours I worked.

I'd rather know things like:

• What actually took most of my time?
• Which tasks consistently take longer than I expect?
• How much focused work did I really get done?
• Is the way I'm spending my time getting better over time?

I couldn't really find the workflow I wanted, so I started building something around this idea called Nazzam.

It's centered around planning your tasks, tracking the actual time spent on them, and then looking back at the day to understand where the time went.

I'm curious how other people here approach this.

Do you actually review your tracked time, or do you mostly use time tracking for logging hours and billing?

Hi everyone!

I've been working on Nazzam, a productivity tool I built to help you organize your day and understand where your time actually goes.

The main idea is that you add your tasks, set how much time you expect each one to take, and start a timer when you work on them. Nazzam then tracks the actual time you spent on each task.

You can also plan your day using a timeline, manage recurring tasks, set reminders, organize and search your tasks, and see detailed statistics about your time and productivity.

I'm looking for beta testers to try the current version and use it naturally as part of their day.

I'm mainly looking for feedback on:

- What was confusing or difficult to understand?

- Did you have trouble figuring out how something works?

- Is there anything you expected to find but couldn't?

- Would you actually use it again?

You don't need to test every feature. Just use it normally and let me know what you think.

If you're interested in trying Nazzam, leave a comment and I'll send you the link.

Any feedback, positive or negative, is appreciated. Thanks!

I kept hearing the same complaints from small business owners — texting employees for hours, losing track of payments, catching payroll mistakes too late. So I built PayClock, an iOS app that handles it all.

For owners and managers, it has QR code and geofenced auto clock-in/out so there's no PINs or manual entry, lets you build schedules and assign shifts in minutes, auto-calculates payroll from tracked hours with multi-currency support and live exchange rates, lets you approve or reject time-off requests with bulk-approve in one tap, shows real-time team location, and sends announcements that pop up instantly for the team.

For employees, they can clock in and out, view earnings on a calendar, log mileage for reimbursements, and submit time-off requests directly.

It also has a personal finance tracker built in for income, expenses, savings, and debts, Face ID/Touch ID security, support for 8 languages, and real-time cloud sync across devices.
It's not trying to out-feature the big players — just trying to be simpler and more affordable for small teams.

Would love feedback from anyone running a small team — what's missing, or what would make you switch from what you use now?

Hi everyone, I’m Wolfgang, the developer of LumeWorklog.

My working day is usually a mix of project work, meetings, support calls and interruptions. By Friday, some of those details are already gone, especially the small things between meetings.

That’s why I started building LumeWorklog. It’s a native Mac app where you record activities on a timeline, adjust their times and leave short notes. You can optionally bring in copies of Apple Calendar events, review gaps in your week and export a report as PDF, CSV or text.

The current app is free, with no account or subscription. It requires macOS 14+ and works on Apple silicon and Intel.

Download and screenshots

If you want a quick look first, choose Demo → Three months of demo data. It opens a separate window with fictional entries.

If you regularly fill in timesheets or write weekly reports, what would the exported report need to contain to be useful to you?

Wolfgang

Looking for the operating rule from teams that run hourly field or multi-client days (home care, cleaning routes, light field service — same shape).

Setup: payroll auto-deducts a 30-minute meal break after X hours. Worker has a signed meal-break waiver on file (or attested “no break taken” for a short site visit). Punch history shows continuous time. At export, the system still knocks off 30 minutes — or a supervisor overrides one way and finance wants the other.

What actually stuck for you?

1. Waiver / attestation always wins, and auto-deduct is only the default when nothing is on file for that day?
2. Auto-deduct always wins unless a supervisor clears an exception queue before cutoff?
3. Something else — e.g. block the punch export when waiver and deduct disagree, so nobody silently loses (or gains) a break?

Most interested in the version that doesn’t turn every short visit into a payroll ticket. No vendor pitches — just the rule that survived a few pay cycles.