macOS Desktop time tracker in menu bar
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Cameron Pereira
I have moved from ActiveCollab, who actually have a time tracker in the menu bar on the desktop app, I think this feature would be great for ClickUp
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Glynn Sullings
Laughable that this feature has been marked as complete. Look at Harvest and Toggl to understand what your users want. I will cancel my paid plan for those, but the menu bar icon needs to be the one stop shop for time entries:
- Start timer
- Stop timer
- Select the task and add a description
- Reminders for idle time
That you have just put the ability to see the timer is ridiculous. How can these other companies get it so right and you so wrong.
I have created a new request for features here:
Francesco Zanarotti
I don't seem to be able to enable this feature in 3.0.6. Is the time tracking in the menu bar still a thing? How do you enable ite?
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Jim McDermott
Francesco Zanarotti: Are you using the desktop app? It should appear at the top in your menu bar. The rub is it doesn't take you directly to the task or give you the options to stop it from the bar.
Francesco Zanarotti
Jim McDermott: Thanks found it, not really useful tho... it should at least let you stop the running timer. Thank you anyway!
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Betty
Jim McDermott: The timer used to show up for me, but it has disappeared in the last 2 weeks. Was there an update to remove it?
Sam Coupland
Betty: Yup same issue for me, can't find the option to switch it on anywhere in the settings
Brendan W
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Check out our improved Desktop App! Not only did we release a bunch of new features and squash bugs, but you can also see your current timer in the Mac OS menu bar!
Check out our release notes here: https://dev-doc.clickup.com/p/ad-75262/release-297
Download the new desktop app here: https://clickup.com/download
Dominique Pijnenburg
Brendan W: Great to see this improvement appear!
I personally would be very happy with notifications that remind me to track time if I'm not doing so at the moment. This is a feature that I used in Toggl Track, it was a great way to force me to track my time because it was periodically telling me that I wasn't doing so. You are also able to configure on which days and between which times these notifications should appear.
Please see my screenshot for further clarification.
Brendan W
Dominique Pijnenburg: Awesome idea! We have an existing feature request for that here that I would recommend you up vote or leave a comment on! https://clickup.canny.io/feature-requests/p/reminder-to-start-or-stop-timer-for-time-periods
This would be for any version of our app if and when implemented :)
Dominique Pijnenburg
Brendan W: Thanks, I added my vote! Hope to see these enhancements soon!
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Matthias Thoen
Brendan W: That is THE BEST news this week. Me happy!
Martin Currie
Brendan W: that’s wonderful news Brendan. Is there an ETA?
Brendan W
Martin Currie: Coming soon! We'll have a public beta soon for some users to try out!
Martin Currie
Brendan W: brilliant, where can I sign up?
Brendan W
Martin Currie: We'll be posting it on the Desktop App Improvements Canny post soon!
Martin Currie
Brendan W: Could you send a link to that?
Brendan W
Martin Currie: You can find it on this Canny post here! https://clickup.canny.io/feature-requests/p/desktop-app-improvements
Martin Currie
Brendan W: I think I must be missing something, this is just a menu bar button that shows the time tracking on a hidden activity. Clicking on it opens the ClickUp app but even then, further mouse action is required to actually see what you're tracking time to. I dearly hope that I'm missing something, but given that the macOS app doesn't even have preferences I'm running out of hope there too.
Brendan W
Martin Currie: Clicking on the timer in the menu bar does not appear to currently perform an action, you are correct. I'll bring this up to our desktop product manager! Thank you so much for your feedback!
Brendan W
Martin Currie haha I already heard back! Right now the timer is just a display in the menu bar but adding more functionality like opening the task you're tracking time on is planned
Martin Currie
Brendan W: That would be useful. I would suggest that the first step should be to show what task time is being tracked on in the menu bar. Knowing what you are doing is much more important than how long you have been doing it for. Given the length of some task titles, this could be shown on hover or click.
Dominique Pijnenburg
Agreed. Please integrate!
Antonia Cassoli
Yes. Totally. Take Toggl as a good example: time tracker on the menu bar and idle time reminders. With these features the native clickup app would be really useful, now it's not.
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Matthias Thoen
Need this too. Current time tracking option is useless because you need to constantly switch between your work and clickup to start/stop/pause the timer. That is not productive at all. The control for this should be in the menu bar so it is easily accessible from everywhere.
I am using Billings now for this, they have a nice pause button in the menu bar, but i want to switch everything to ClickUp. As a temporary solution i am thinking of installing a small app for time tracking with a menu bar control. And when the project ends i will add my time manually in ClickUp, and delete it from the small app. But as you can see the productivity is lost here ...
Martin Currie
A brilliant idea - which I also really miss from Toggl (along with the native mobile app: https://feedback.clickup.com/feature-requests/p/standalone-iosandroid-time-tracking-app) this would also permit idle time reminders: https://feedback.clickup.com/feature-requests/p/time-tracker-idle-time-feature
Dominique Pijnenburg
Martin Currie: This and showing the time in the menu-bar would be enough for me to abandon Toggl Track. At the moment I think time tracking in ClickUp is not good enough.
Philippe D. Côté
+1 Agreed! :)