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Tracking time

Time in Nydli always belongs to a task, and through the task it belongs to a category. That's what makes the timesheet automatic. You track your hours, and the report is already grouped the way you work.

You can start a timer three ways​

  • Open a task and press start in its time section.
  • Click Start timer in the header. You get a quick-start panel with the tasks you tracked recently, and you can type to find any other one. When you click a task there, the timer starts.
  • In List, you can click the play button on a row to start that task's timer without opening it.

One timer runs at a time. If you start one on another task, the one that was running stops, and Nydli tells you which task it came off.

If you leave a timer running, two things help you find it again:

  • The task with the timer keeps a red stop button on its List row, whether you hover the row or not.
  • While a timer runs, the little picture on the browser tab changes, so you can see it from another tab.

If you stop a timer within 30 seconds of starting it, Nydli throws it away, because a misclick isn't work. It tells you when that happens.

Add the time by hand if you forgot​

You do it on the task, and you can give it a start time of day as well.

Write the duration however you like. 1:30, 1h 30m and 90 all mean the same hour and a half.

You can edit or delete any entry, whether the timer made it or you did. The one thing you can't edit is a timer that's still running, so stop it first.

Every entry belongs to a calendar day in your time zone, which you set in Settings. That's the day it shows under on the timesheet.

Your hours follow the task when it ends​

  • When you mark a task done, its timer keeps going until you stop it. You can't start a new timer on a task that's done, though, so reopen it first. If you want the timer to stop as soon as you mark the task done, turn on Stop the timer automatically when I mark a task as done under Settings → Features.
  • When you archive one, the timer stops too. Archived tasks keep all their time on the timesheet, but you can't add more to them.
  • When you delete one, its time goes from the timesheet with it. The delete dialog always tells you how much tracked time that is. If you restore the task from the Bin, you get the time back as well. See Done, archive or delete?

You can turn time tracking off altogether​

Not tracking time? Turn off Time tracking under Settings → Features. That hides the timer and the time section in the task editor, and it takes the timesheet out of the menu.

We never touch your data, so when you turn it back on, everything is there exactly as it was.