🕰️ Est. Time: 5 minutes
🎯 Goal: Time your work as you do it, then log the real time in a click
🔑 Requirements: Your own To Do page. You can only time your own To Dos.
Planning your week is the heart of Streamtime. But work doesn't always stick to the plan: a quick amend, an unplanned review, a client call that runs long. The timer records how long you actually spend, so you log real time instead of guessing.
🎬 Starting the timer
Right-click a To Do and choose Start Working.
Click the stopwatch in the To Do window. On a new To Do, this creates it and starts timing straight away.
Click Start Timer on a sidebar card. This uses today's To Do for that item, or creates a 1-hour one.
Starting the timer moves the To Do to today. Start it on a logged To Do (Continue Working), and Streamtime creates a new 1-hour To Do for today and times that instead.
A small timer will appear on the task item you are working on and in the side menu. It turns red once you've gone over the planned time.
⏸️ Pausing and switching
You can have one timer running and any number paused. Start a new timer while one is running, and Streamtime asks whether to Log Time on the first or Pause Timer so you can come back to it.
Paused timers wait at the top of the sidebar under Paused Timers. Click Keep Working on the card, or right-click the To Do, to pick it back up. If it's on an earlier day, choose Log and Restart (log that day's time and start fresh today) or Move to Today (bring it over and carry on).
🔔 When you hit your planned time
When the timer reaches the To Do's duration, a Ding! message appears:
I Need More Time adds to the duration
Stop and Log logs the time
Clear Timer and Log Nothing stops without logging
🏁 Stopping the timer
Right-click the To Do and choose Stop, or click Stop Timer on the sidebar card. Then either:
Log the time (you can adjust it), and choose whether to Leave in To Do any planned time that's left, or
Clear Time and Log Nothing
⚠️ Clear Time and Log Nothing throws the tracked time away. Only use it if you really didn't want to record it.
A timer that ran for less than a minute is cleared without asking.
🙋 Forgot to press stop?
It happens. If a timer runs for more than 12 hours, or a paused timer is left over from before yesterday, Streamtime stops it and emails you so you can check the time. No awkward questions about the night shift.
❓ FAQs
Can I time a team member's To Do? No. You can only time your own To Dos.
Can I run two timers at once? One runs at a time, but you can have as many paused as you like.