Accurate Jira Time Tracking with Smart Workload Suggestions

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Time tracking this, time tracking that… It’s easy to talk about its importance and discuss its benefits. But in order to achieve accurate Jira time tracking, you need to first have something to track, and it turns out to be more challenging than it might seem. 

We all know how it goes. Whether you’re a regular Jira user who’s simply too busy with day-to-day tasks to log hours systematically, or a project manager relying on time tracking data to keep everything on track - logging time often falls to the bottom of the task list. It’s not that users aren’t willing; they’re just focused on doing their jobs. As a result, time reporting is frequently postponed until the very last day of the month, when the only option is to sit down and face this challenge. By that point, though, it’s incredibly difficult to accurately retrace your steps based solely on memory.

Accurate Jira Time Tracking You’ve Been Searching For

If all of the above struggles sound familiar, we might have the Jira time tracking solution for your needs. Our newest app, Time Assistant - Time Tracking and Workload Dashboard, was created for busy professionals who want accurate, reliable, and stress-free time tracking in Jira.

 

Stay on Track with Smart Workload Suggestions

As we all know, Jira can be bustling with activity, so much so that it often gets difficult to keep up with everything that happens and all the notifications that keep on showing up, whether you are online to see them coming, or not. 

Other users' activity is one thing, but sometimes it’s surprisingly easy to get confused even when it comes to your own actions, especially in relation to time. What was that issue that I recently reviewed? What was that task that I was assigned to last week but did not log time? What items have I worked on and need to report before the end of the month?

Accurate Jira time tracking can get practically impossible, if you don’t do it regularly, nor do you have a proper tool that would assist you in reconstructing your activity once in a while. It gets particularly burdensome, when you don’t even have the time to log your time - after all, there are so many other things that you must do, and we totally get that. You want to stay focused on your job, and not get distracted by counting hours. And once you finally get a moment to log your time, it turns out that retracing your steps is awfully difficult and gives results that are far from accurate.

This challenge also affects project managers and team leaders, who rely on errorless data to properly manage projects, teams, and resources. The easier it is for users to locate their tasks and log their hours, even after some time has passed, the more precise and reliable the data will be - leading to more effective time tracking and comprehensive time reports.

Answering to this problem, Time Assistant provides you with smart workload suggestions generated based on your actions on particular work items. It serves as a quick recap of all crucial activities that might be relevant to you:

• Work items you opened,
• Work items you edited,
• Work items assigned to you,
• Work items you commented on,
• Work items you were mentioned in.

Suggestions are shown in three time periods: today, this week, and this month, and can be filtered by project, issue type, or searched using text input. You can adjust your board to your needs by selecting which types of suggestions you want the app to provide.

It is also possible to ignore certain work items, if you don’t want them to be showing up in your suggestions, even if you perform actions on them.

View All the Important Work Items in One Place

How much time do you spend fumbling around, trying to find the items you’ve been working on and need to log your time into? Suggestions based on activity is one thing, but sometimes you just have these few items that you’re constantly coming back to, and constantly have to search for. Wouldn’t it be easier to just gather them all in one place for an effortless access? 

 With Time Assistant, it’s possible. Users can save time on searching, and project managers can rest assured that the right work items are always close at hand, and won’t get lost in the shuffle.

Access work items you’ve recently worked on in a handy section displaying your time logs:

 

Add work items to your list of favorites to access them whenever you need, without wasting your time on scrolling through different projects and boards. You can equally easily remove work items from the list if you no longer need them to be there.

Log and Monitor Your Time Easily

Since Time Assistant serves as your main issue management center, you can not only find there all the work items that you need, but also log time to them without any additional steps. There is no need to open the work items - you can simply click on the clock icon next to an issue, and a ‘Log time’ modal will appear.

Are you still worried that the users won’t log all the time they have worked? After all, it’s easy to miscount or lose an hour or two, especially if you’re logging your time for the entire week or month. 

We know the struggle, which is why we equipped our app with a time summary feature. It tracks all the time you’ve logged today, this week, and this month, helping you to quickly verify whether you’ve recorded all your hours. If you ever get confused about how much time you’ve already logged, one glance at your ‘Time logged’ summary will clear up any doubts you may have.

 

Use Active Timers to Make the Time Log on Itself

Although Time Assistant significantly simplifies the process of manual time logging, wouldn’t it be even easier, if the time logged on itself, without your help?

With active timers, all you need to do is click an icon to start time logging, and… get down to work! 

 

Once you’re finished with the issue, stop the timer. You can verify and edit the amount of time, if needed. If everything is okay, just confirm, and the time will be automatically logged to the issue. 

Active timers are accessible from your Time Assistant dashboard as well as from every issue. You can run timers for multiple work items at the same time, and easily check all the running timers to make sure it didn’t slip your mind to turn something off.

With this feature you no longer need to count hours, and wonder how much time each task has taken - Time Assistant is there to do it for you. It makes the time recording more approachable and less overwhelming, reducing the time and effort the users need to commit to logging their hours. The app’s active timers encourage ongoing time logging, sparing both users and their team leaders from the stress of last-minute entries.

With Time Assistant Your Time Is in Good Hands

Time Assistant was built based on your suggestions, with the sole purpose of taking the frustrating burden of time logging off your and your teammates’ shoulders, and turning it into a simple, effective, and rewarding experience, adjustable to the individual needs of each user.

Try Time Assistant - Time Tracking and Workload Dashboard for free, and share your thoughts with us!