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Manual timesheets are a quiet tax on anyone who bills by the hour. You do the work, then try to piece the day back together afterward โ guessing at start times, rounding from memory, and losing real billable hours along the way. The common alternative is worse: surveillance trackers that take screenshots, score your "activity," and watch your every move.
And most "automatic" trackers don't really solve it either. They just record which app you had open and hand you a vague log โ "Word 3h, Browser 1h, Email 30m." But you use the same apps for every client, so a log like that can't tell Client A from Client B. You still end up sorting the whole pile into the right projects by hand at the end of the week โ the exact chore you were trying to escape, just postponed.
Temporal.ist works differently. You tell it once which folders and websites belong to each client โ say, your Dunder Mifflin folder and the Dunder Mifflin web portal. From then on, whenever you save a file in that folder or visit that site, the time is logged to the right client automatically, the moment it happens. No sorting, no cleanup, no "whose hour was this?" Even if you jump between three clients in one afternoon, every minute lands where it belongs.
That same design is what keeps it private. Because it only pays attention to the folders and websites you chose, it never needs to watch everything you do โ no screenshots, no keystroke logging, no activity scores. Time starts when you start working and stops on its own when you step away, so there's no timer to remember. It records only when you worked and on what โ never the contents of your work โ and you can always review and edit your hours; nothing is locked in a black box. Everything lands in a clean dashboard with projects, reports, and one-click invoicing.
It's for freelancers, consultants, agencies โ anyone who bills by the hour or just hates filling in timesheets. Works on Windows, Mac, and Linux, keeps tracking even when you're offline, and comes with extensions for Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Safari.