Bring Back Less Complicated (Manual) Time Tracking
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Justin Mosebach
The new version of time tracking is too complicated.
It used to be simple:
- Click to add time.
- Click "Add manual time".
- Type time on keyboard and hit "Enter" (also on keyboard).
Now, it's:
- Click to add time.
- Carefully avoid the "Enter a note" field (which looks like where you should add time).
- Click "or log time".
- Click into the "Type anything (mins, hours, days)" field.
- Type time on keyboard.
- Click "Save" button with mousebecause keyboard "Enter" button doesn't work.
Editing previously-logged time is even worse: YOU CAN'T.
It's adding the time on, not changing the amount you spent. If you want to change the amount of time logged, you have to delete the "Session" and log it again.
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Ivan Villa
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Hey Justin! check out the latest release we should have solved most of these. We have a patch for previously logged entries going out soon too!
Alexandre Chamoy
Ivan Villa: Hello Ivan, many thanks for your help, but I think the feature is still so painful to use... I really don't get why you changed that much the UI for Time Tracking by adding the integrated timer...? The notes feature should be secondary, the timer should be a simple addition, and we would love to get back the previous interface for Time Tracking please!
Now, to manually add some time to a task, you have to aim like a sniper the very small "+" icon, then wrote your time (and why "2h30" can't be automatically understood as "2h30m"???), and then press TWICE "enter" to validate your time... And it work only if it's for the daily time tracked, because if you want to add time for a previous day... Welcome to the warp zone :D You need to manually write the date THEN validate it by clicking on the popup... Where is the visual calendar please?
I hope my message is clear enough, and I ready to answer any question to help your team to make this feature easier to use :D It's really important for us too ^^
Justin Mosebach
Alexandre Chamoy: I think they fixed your main points (at least on the desktop website). Do a force refresh (clear cache). Example, hold down "SHIFT" when you click the Refresh/Reload button on your browser.
Justin Mosebach
Ivan Villa: Thank you!!!!!
Ivan Villa
Alexandre Chamoy: Hey Alexandre! please refresh the app. Its one Click to enter and we now remember your last used option so no need to sniper a "+" icon :)
Alexander Selle
Ivan Villa: Great. Still not as good as it was before time tracking, but again much better.
My personal remaining pain points:
* you still have to wait a bit before you can hit enter when entering a time
* still not possible to add a description for "manual" and "range"
* the usability when entering a date is really really really bad, mainly because the calendar constantly shows another date than the date entered and it's permanently jumping to today for no apparent reason
* you have to use a mouse for the add time dialog, you can't tab your way to the other fields after entering time with the keyboard
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* it still would be great to log time for other team members
Alexandre Chamoy
Ivan Villa: The option was hard to see at first, but I have to admit this is fixing a lot and improving the feature! Thanks a lot for your help !
Alexandre Chamoy
Justin Mosebach: Thanks a lot for letting me know that! It's now way better :D
Alexander Selle
The changes make it a bit better but there are still a couple annoyances in the Desktop App:
* Can not add time with return key (at least not the first time, after hitting it a couple of times it eventually works)
* can not add description
* can not easily switch between tracking and manual logging
* The white text on the blue accent color is still (in my opinion) a bit hard on the eyes
Otherwise the updates on manual time tracking this week improved the experience a lot already.
Alain Stulz
Would also be really great to have a /slash command for adding spent time. "/spend 30m Reading feature requests"
David Daniels
Just keep the notes please in some fashion. It is really important (to me) to record what the time is for.
Nick
David Daniels: Don't worry! Notes are here to stay.
Justin Mosebach
Nick: Am I correct that the notes are only added if you use the timer?
Nick
Justin Mosebach: Notes should be available whether you are using the timer or tracking manually!
Justin Mosebach
Nick: Nice! I hadn't noticed the button before! If anyone else sees this, here's how...
Alexander Selle
Justin Mosebach Thanks for bringing this ticket up. And I'd like to add that it's still not possible to add a description in manual time logging.
I was ranting about exactly the same in the time tracking V3 ticket (https://feedback.clickup.com/feature-requests/p/time-tracking-v3-native-in-app). Manual time tracking really got complicated.
I attached a quick mockup of how I think it would be a little better already. Doesn't fit with the Clickup design but I hope you get the idea ;)
Justin Mosebach
Alexander Selle: Nice!
Ivan Villa
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Ivan Villa
Jonathan Solorzano
TOTALLY AGREE, our team got used to work with manual, start/stop feels awkward, I believe that you need to penalize your UX/UI team, clickup isn't a bad product, but it needs much better experience and a more adequate UI to make people feel comfortable while having many options, please, learn about the mistakes Jira did...
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Hero Krumminga
Nice to see, that the manual time tracking is marked as planned.
We enter all time values manual.
Wouldn't it be good if we could enter something like "10:15-10:45" or "10:15 + 30min"?
Lukas Pour
I agree with Justin's comments, our team uses both manual and automation tracking but manual far more. Please use it simple as possible. I would like to have an idea to be able to disable comments and tags for whole team.
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