TimeTagger guide

Starting a timer

Steps:

• Hit the play button
• Write a description
• Hit Start
• The timer is running!
• Hit stop to end the record

Tips:

• Without using the mouse: hit the "S" shortcut, write a description, and hit enter.
• Starting the timer while one is running will automatically stop the running record.

Creating a record afterwards

Steps:

• Hit the play button
• Write a description
• Set to "already done"
• Adjust the start and stop times
• Hit Create

Creating a record from the timeline

Steps:

• Click on the timeline
• Drag from start to stop time
• Enter a description
• Hit Create

Editing a record via the dialog

Steps:

• Click on the record description
• Make changes
• Hit Save

Editing a record via the timeline

Steps:

• Click on the record in the timeline
• Drag start-time, stop-time, or the whole record
• Done! (click anywhere to de-select the record)

Navigating the timeline

Steps:

• The Today-button snaps to the current day
• Use the range button ...
• ... to select common ranges
• Buttons to freely move around the timeline
• Drag (mouse/touch) to move forwards or backwards in time (use RMB to adjust scale)
• Finally, you can also use your keyboard

Using tags

Steps:

• Use # in the description to turn words into tags
• Detected tags are listed below
• That's it! The tags are now listed in the autocompletion box

Notes:

• Tags are implicit: they only exist because of their occurance in descriptions.
• Tags can contain all alphanumeric characters, including special characters like ë or é.
• Further, the dash ("-"), underscore ("_"), and forward slash ("/") are allowed.
• Tags are case insensitive.

Using the overview

Steps:

• The overview shows a summary of the current time range
• It's especially useful for e.g. a week or month view
• You can click on a tag ...
• ... to filter on it, and see a breakdown for that tag
• You can select multiple tags this way
• You can also open the tag-dialog to manage a tag (or set of tags)

Related topics in this guide:

• Tag management (TODO)
• The report dialog (TODO)

Generating reports

Steps:

• Select the appropriate time range, e.g. a week view
• Optionally select a tag
• Then hit the Report button
• Adjust the settings
• Save to CSV to store the time-tracking data
• Save to PDF for a nice report

Tips:

• The exported CSV spreadsheet has a format designed to make it easy to process the data further.
• Most spreadsheet programs don't deal well with normal time formatting, so when exporting to CSV its recommended to use decimal formatting.