Everhour records time on Linear issues so teams can review billable work, cost rates, and weekly totals.
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You landed here to see time spent on each Linear issue, not just a broad project total. The practical record starts with the issue itself, then adds the person who worked on it, the date, the duration, and a short note when the entry needs context. That structure lets a manager answer a direct question: which issue produced the hours?
Issue-level tracking works best when every entry stays attached to the issue that caused the work. A developer fixing a bug, a designer reviewing acceptance criteria, and a QA lead retesting the same issue can each log separate time. The issue becomes the common reference point for delivery review, billing review, and team workload analysis.
For a useful review record, capture the Linear issue, project, date, duration, billable status, and note when context is needed. The billable status matters because client-facing time and internal work often sit in the same project history. A note matters when the duration alone does not explain the work, such as investigation, rework, review, or a late handoff.
Manual entries fit completed work that someone forgot to track in real time. A timer fits active work where the person wants the duration captured as the task happens. Teams should use one expectation consistently: start a timer when beginning focused work on an issue, or add a manual entry the same day with enough detail for review.
Issue totals become useful when they separate the work object from the reporting question. One issue can show 2 hours from engineering, 45 minutes from QA, and 30 minutes from review. The total helps a manager compare actual effort against expectations without treating every project hour as equal.
The common mistake is mixing issue-level time with loose project notes. A generic project entry leaves the reviewer guessing which issue consumed the time. That breaks billing detail, makes estimates harder to compare with reported time, and weakens payroll or approval review when a manager needs to confirm the work behind a timesheet.
A one-off entry is enough when you need to record a small amount of time against one issue and export the result for a quick review. That approach stops working when multiple people log time, billable and non-billable work need different treatment, or managers need a durable record before invoicing, payroll review, or project reporting.
Everhour adds the managed layer around Linear issue work: approvals, locked periods, reporting, and billing handoff. Its rate setup separates internal cost rates from client-facing billable rates, supports per-person defaults and per-project overrides, preserves dated rate history, and prices billable work by project, member, or task.
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Each entry should identify the issue, project, person, date, duration, billable status, and note when context is needed. The issue ties the time to the work item, while the billable status separates client-chargeable work from internal activity. A same-day entry with a clear note is easier to approve than a late weekly total.
Timers fit focused work that starts and ends around a specific issue. Manual entries fit after-the-fact corrections or short work blocks someone did not time live. A team should define one review rule: manual time needs enough context to explain the issue, date, and duration without a separate follow-up.
Issue estimates and logged hours answer different questions. Estimates describe expected effort or complexity, while logged hours record time actually spent. A manager can compare the two, but one does not replace the other for billing review, payroll review, or a time-based project report.
Loose project-level entries make per-issue totals unreliable because the hours no longer attach to the issue that produced them. Late backfilling creates the same problem when the person cannot identify the exact issue. Require issue selection at entry time and review uncategorized time before approving the week.
A weekly review works for most teams because it catches missing entries before memory fades and before invoices or payroll reports are prepared. Managers should check high-duration entries, missing notes, billable status, and entries posted to the wrong issue. Approved time stays locked for regular members.
Everhour separates cost and billable rates so Linear issue time can support labor cost, revenue, and profit reporting. Members can have default rates, projects can override them, and dated rate changes keep older reports tied to the rate that applied when the work happened.
Everhour lets managers approve, reject, or partially approve submitted timesheets before reports, payroll review, or billing use the time. Submitted time is locked unless withdrawn or rejected, and approved time stays locked for regular members.
Track approved Linear issue time with Everhour, apply the right cost and billable rates, and carry reviewed hours into reporting and client billing.
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