Everhour adds timers, manual entries, rates, and reports to Linear projects so tracked hours stay tied to real issue work.
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You came here to record time on Linear project work without rebuilding the project in a separate spreadsheet. The useful outcome is a clear time record for each issue: the Linear issue, project, date, person, duration, billable flag, and a short note when the entry needs context. That structure lets a manager review work by issue, project, or person without guessing where the hours came from.
A good setup keeps Linear as the place where issues, assignees, issue status, cycles, labels, and priorities live. Time entries should attach to that work context as people start timers or enter time after the fact. Linear estimates can describe effort or size, while clock time should stay in a separate record that supports billing, payroll review, cost reporting, and project history.
A timer fits focused work that starts from a specific issue. A developer opens the issue, starts the timer, writes the fix, stops the timer, and leaves the entry attached to the work item. The entry should show the date, exact duration, user, issue, and any note needed to explain a billing line, review item, or later cost question.
Manual entry fits work captured after the session ends, such as a support follow-up, meeting, code review, or missed timer. The mistake to avoid is dumping a full day into one generic project row. Split time by issue when the work affected separate deliverables, and mark billable status at the right level so reports do not mix client-chargeable work with internal project time.
Issue-level time tracking gives project totals a cleaner source. A project report can roll up hours from each issue, then group the same time by person, date, label, status, or billable status. That view gives an engineering lead a concrete answer to questions such as which issues consumed the most time, which people carried the work, and which hours belong in a client-facing bill.
Readable totals require consistent entry habits. Each person should log time to the issue that produced the work, use notes for ambiguous tasks, and avoid changing old entries after review without a clear correction path. Rates add another layer: internal cost rates and client-facing billable rates need separate handling so the same hours can support margin review and invoicing without manual recoding.
A one-off tracking setup is enough when you need a short project export, a light audit of one sprint, or a simple record of hours against a few Linear issues. It works when one person controls the entries, the billing terms are simple, and nobody needs locked periods, approval history, rate changes, or recurring reporting after the work closes.
A managed workflow fits teams that bill clients, review payroll, track project cost, or need a durable record after the project moves on. Everhour can keep cost rates separate from billable rates, apply per-person defaults and per-project overrides, preserve dated rate history, and price billable work by project, member, or task. Approvals, locked periods, and reports then give finance and project leads one reviewed source.
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Log time against the issue that produced the work, then include the project, date, duration, person, billable flag, and a short note when the entry needs context. Issue-level entries create cleaner project totals than broad daily rows because reports can show exactly which work items consumed the hours.
Linear estimates are effort or size values, with team-level scales such as Exponential, Fibonacci, Linear, or T-Shirt. Keep them separate from clock time. Use estimates to describe expected effort, then use time entries to record hours actually worked for billing, cost review, payroll review, and project reporting.
A timer is better for focused work that starts from one issue and needs exact duration. Manual entry is better when the work has already happened, such as a meeting, review, or missed timer. Teams should allow both, but reports should preserve how the time was entered so managers can spot late or rounded entries.
Generic entries damage project reports fastest. A row such as 8 hours on "Linear project work" hides the issue, deliverable, billing status, and reviewer context. Split the day across the issues actually worked, and add notes for meetings, research, or cross-issue work that a manager or client will need to understand later.
Issue-level hours let a reviewer connect billed time to the work item that created it. A billing review can group time by project, issue, person, date, or billable status, then exclude non-billable work before an invoice is prepared. That trail reduces rework when a client asks why a specific line was charged.
Everhour separates internal cost rates from client-facing billable rates, then applies per-person defaults or per-project overrides when Linear issue time is reported. Dated rate history keeps older entries priced under the rate that applied at the time, and billable work can be priced by project, member, or task.
Everhour supports timesheet approval and locked periods, so submitted or approved time can be protected before billing, payroll review, or reporting. Managers can review weekly project hours, reject entries that need correction, and keep later edits from changing a closed period without a deliberate approval step.
Track Linear issue time with Everhour, apply the right cost and billable rates, approve the week, and send cleaner project data into reporting and billing.
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