Everhour adds timers and manual entries to Linear issues so project hours stay tied to the work.
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You came here to record hours against Linear work without rebuilding the project in a separate spreadsheet. A useful entry identifies the Linear issue, the project it belongs to, the date, the person who did the work, the duration, the billable flag, and a short note when the entry needs context. That record gives managers a traceable answer to a simple question: which issue produced these hours?
Linear issue estimates describe effort or complexity through configured scales such as Exponential, Fibonacci, Linear, or T-shirt sizing. Those estimates support planning, cycles, and project analytics, but they are not the same as logged clock time. Hour records serve a different job. They show time actually spent, preserve who entered it, and support timesheets, reports, budgets, invoicing, and payroll review.
A timer fits work that starts from a specific issue and stays focused. Start the timer on the issue, stop it when the work stops, then add a short note if the entry needs review context. This works well for development, QA, support investigation, or implementation tasks where the issue remains the center of the session.
Manual entry fits work captured after the fact, especially meetings, paired work, cleanup, or time recorded from a calendar. Enter the date and duration against the right issue, mark whether the time is billable, and avoid dumping a whole day into one broad item unless that issue directly represents that work. The main mistake is separating the hours from the issue that caused them.
Per-issue time only stays useful when every entry follows the same structure. A good record carries the Linear issue, project, date, duration, billable or non-billable status, and a note when the time needs explanation. For example, a 2.5 hour QA pass belongs on the release issue that required the test, with a note naming the browser, build, or scenario reviewed.
Linear project and cycle views can use estimates, issue counts, status, and related measures to describe progress. Logged hours answer a narrower operational question: how much time did the team spend on this issue or project? Keep those concepts separate. Estimate points support planning. Time entries support review, billing, budget checks, and labor reporting.
A one-off log is enough when you only need to capture a few entries and review them manually. It breaks down when several people update Linear issues, managers need weekly approvals, clients expect billable detail, or accounting needs a clean handoff. At that point, time records need locked periods, reminders, approval status, and reports that match the way work is organized.
Everhour turns Linear issue time into a managed workflow. Users can track with timers or manual entries, then recorded hours flow into timesheets, reporting, budgeting, invoicing, and payroll review. Admin controls cover approvals, locked periods, reminders, and timer rules, so the same Linear-linked records can support weekly review and downstream billing or payroll steps.
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Log the entry against the specific issue that produced the work, then include the date, duration, person, billable status, and note when context matters. A task-level record is stronger than a project-only total because the manager can trace the hours back to the exact issue reviewed, shipped, tested, or discussed.
Estimate points and logged hours serve different purposes. Linear estimates describe effort or complexity through the team's configured scale, and Linear analytics use effort as the estimate value. Logged hours record time actually spent. Keep both values separate so planning data does not become billing, payroll, or cost data by accident.
A timer works best for focused work that starts from one issue and ends when that work stops. Manual entry works better for meetings, offline work, paired sessions, or corrections made after the work is complete. The correct choice is the one that preserves an accurate issue, date, duration, billable flag, and note.
The most common review problems are project-only entries, missing notes on unusual work, billable time mixed with non-billable time, and late edits after managers have already checked the week. Another common mistake is treating unestimated issues as if they already contain a reliable hour value. Estimates and time entries need separate review.
Per-issue totals show where time actually went inside a project. Managers can compare reported time with issue status, project, tag, and assignee context, then spot items that consumed more work than expected. That view supports better billing detail, budget review, staffing decisions, and future estimates without flattening the whole project into one weekly total.
Everhour Time Tracking adds issue-level timers and manual logging to Linear through its browser extension. Each entry can stay connected to the Linear issue and project, then feed Everhour timesheets, reports, budgets, invoicing, and payroll review instead of living as a disconnected note or spreadsheet row.
Everhour reports can use Linear workspace, project, issue, status, and tag data after the integration syncs active projects and issues from selected workspaces. That lets managers review time by the same work structure the team uses in Linear while keeping reporting in Everhour.
Track approved hours from Linear issues with Everhour Time Tracking, then use the same records for timesheets, reports, billing, budgeting, and payroll review.
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