Organizing your work
Three ways to categorize time, and how they are meant to work together rather than compete with each other.
Projects
A project is the main container for related work — a client engagement, a product line, an internal initiative. Every project has a name and a color, which shows up in the tracker, the timesheet, and reports so you can scan a week at a glance. A project can optionally belong to a client, which is what makes per-client reporting possible.
Done with a project but do not want to lose its history? Archive it instead of deleting it. Archived projects disappear from the tracker's picker so they stop cluttering day-to-day use, but every entry logged against them stays fully intact and reportable.
Tasks
Larger projects can be broken down further into tasks, managed from the project's detail view. Each task tracks its own active/done status, and you can pick one when logging a time entry — useful when a single project covers several distinct pieces of work you want to report on separately.
Tags
Tags are a second, cross-cutting axis — labels like “meeting,” “bug,” or “billable” that you can attach to a time entry regardless of which project it belongs to. Use tags when you want to slice reports by the kind of work, not just which project it was for.
Unlike projects, deleting a tag actually removes it — there is no archive step, since a tag is just a label rather than a container of entries. Existing entries keep their history; they simply lose that tag.
Clients
A client represents who you are doing the work for. Attaching projects to a client lets you report on everything billed to that client across multiple projects, and is also what project sharing links are built around — you can share a specific project's progress with the client it belongs to without exposing anything else in your organization.
A worked example
Say you run a small studio. You would create a client for each customer, a project under that client for each engagement, and tag individual entries as “design,” “development,” or “revisions” as you log them. A report filtered to that client shows total billable hours; a report filtered by the “revisions” tag shows how much rework is costing you across every client at once.