Time tracking

Time tracking is the heart of RyTask, and it's built to be honest with near-zero effort: one click to start, one click to stop, and a classification that tells you whether the time was planned or an interruption.

The timer

Open an item and press Start timer. From there:

• One timer per person. You can only be doing one thing at a time, and RyTask agrees. Starting a timer on another item automatically stops the first one and logs its time — switching tasks is one click, with nothing to remember to stop.
• It survives anything. The running timer lives on the server, not in your browser tab. Reload, switch devices, lose your connection — when you come back, the timer is still running with the correct elapsed time.
• Stopping the timer turns it into a time entry on the item, with an optional note.

Manual entries

Forgot to run the timer? Add time by hand on the item: either a plain duration ("2h") with a date (today by default), or an explicit start and end time. Manual entries can carry a note and a billable flag, just like timer entries.

Planned or interruption?

Every entry is classified as planned or interruption — this binary split is what powers the "where did my time go?" answer in Reporting.

• The default comes from the item's priority: time on an Urgent item is assumed to be an interruption; everything else is assumed planned.
• You can override the classification on any individual entry — your judgement beats the rule. Overridden entries are marked as such, so reports can tell defaults from deliberate choices.

Planned plus interruption always sums exactly to total logged time. No third bucket, no unaccounted remainder.

Editing and deleting entries

You can edit or delete your own entries; project and organization admins can edit or delete anyone's. Every edit and deletion is recorded in the item's activity history, so the trail stays honest.

The plan-vs-actual meter

The signature of RyTask: a small meter inside the task row and on the item page.

• A honey-colored fill grows as time is logged, toward a tick mark at the estimate.
• Go past the estimate and the over-portion turns red. Not as a punishment — as information.
• No estimate? No tick, no red, no judgement. The meter just shows what was logged.

Where totals show up

What never counts

Two exclusion rules keep every figure trustworthy, everywhere:

• Deleted time entries are gone from every total the moment they're deleted.
• Time on trashed items doesn't count while the item is in the trash. Restore the item and its time counts again.

There is no hidden bucket where excluded time still lurks — the row meter, the item page, and every report all agree.