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Time Tracker

The organization needed to understand where staff capacity was going without turning timekeeping into the hardest task of the day. This mobile-first system makes entry quick for staff and transforms those small records into reviewable activity, workload, and planning insight.

FormatMobile-first web app
EntryToday + week
ContextCalendar-assisted
ReportingActivity areas + CSV
Open live product Organization sign-in required
Why it was builtMake invisible effort understandable
Value createdFast entries with useful context
Organizational outcomeBetter staffing and priority decisions

The real product

Record the day quickly. Understand the week clearly.

The phone view is optimized for the moment work ends: a clear total, quick entry, and readable task blocks. The weekly view adds activity-area summaries and optional calendar context without counting a scheduled event until a person confirms the work.

Real production interface · anonymized representative staff activity

Actual weekly time tracker interface showing total hours, work entries, top activity area, Google Calendar reference, daily task blocks, and activity breakdown
01 · Weekly understanding · totals, tasks, categories, and calendar context
Actual mobile time tracker showing today's total and three recorded task blocks across marketing, volunteer engagement, and ministry systems
02 · Daily habit · quick entry and an immediate account of the day

Why it was built

Reporting needed detail. Staff needed the process to stay humane.

Traditional time systems optimize for payroll fields, not the actual rhythm of varied community work. People move between communications, facilities, mentoring, food service, meetings, and ministry systems—sometimes within a single block.

This product keeps the entry model simple while preserving the detail leaders need. A real block can contain several tasks, time can be split across activity areas, and optional calendar events serve as memory prompts rather than automatic claims.

Organizational value

Useful accountability without unnecessary friction.

  • SpeedToday-first mobile entry
  • MemoryCalendar-assisted recall
  • AccuracyMulti-task allocation
  • Clarity20 activity areas
  • ReviewTeam and individual views
  • ReportingStable CSV export

Designed around behavior

Time data becomes useful because entering it stays practical.

The interface supports the way staff actually remember work: today, this week, or through a calendar prompt. Draft recovery, quick durations, inline checks, and personal clock preferences remove small points of resistance that otherwise destroy reporting consistency.

3connected views: today, week, and month
20activity areas for meaningful reporting
12 / 24hour display chosen per person
1 → manytask categories inside one real work block
01 · RememberUse the day, week, or read-only calendar as context.
02 · RecordEnter a real start, end, break, and plain-language task.
03 · ClassifySplit one block across the activity areas it actually served.
04 · UnderstandReview workload patterns and export stable reporting.