Everhour adds time tracking inside Linear so Canadian teams can connect issue hours to reports and billing review.
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Canadian teams can attach a clear hour record to each Linear issue when work needs later review. The practical job is simple: log time on the issue that produced the work, keep the entry tied to the right project, and leave enough context for later review. A useful entry captures the issue, project, date, duration, billable flag, and a short note.
That structure matters when client work, internal engineering work, and support tasks all move through the same workspace. A timer works well while you stay focused on one issue. Manual entry works better after meetings, paired work, or offline work, as long as the note explains the work completed and the issue still owns the time.
Linear estimates describe effort or complexity, using scales such as Exponential 1/2/4/8/16, Fibonacci 1/2/3/5/8, Linear 1/2/3/4/5, or T-shirt XS/S/M/L/XL. Linear analytics use estimate values as effort, not logged clock time or labor cost. That distinction keeps planning data and actual time records from being mixed.
A Canadian agency team may estimate an integration issue at 5 points, then log 3.5 hours after implementation and review. The estimate supports planning. The logged time supports the project record, client review, budget tracking, and later reporting. Treating the estimate as the time entry creates a false history and weakens every report that depends on actual duration.
A clean time workflow groups entries by Linear workspace, project, issue, status, and tag data. Issue-level totals show which tickets consumed the most effort, while project totals show the bigger delivery picture. The useful review question is practical: did each person record time against the issue that actually drove the work?
The common mistake is leaving time at a broad project level when the work happened on specific issues. That hides the cause of overruns and makes client questions harder to answer. A better weekly review checks high-duration issues, short entries with missing notes, entries marked billable by mistake, and time recorded on closed or stale work.
A one-off time entry is enough when you need to capture a small piece of Linear work and move on. It is also enough for a solo contractor who reviews issue hours manually before sending a simple client update. The entry still needs a date, duration, issue, project, billable status, and note.
A managed workflow becomes necessary when several people log time, managers approve weekly records, and hours feed billing, payroll review, or project reporting. Everhour supports that durable setup with approvals, locked periods, Linear-aware reports, and exports, so issue time becomes a record instead of scattered notes.
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Each person should record time against the specific Linear issue that drove the work, then include the project, date, duration, billable status, and a short note. That format gives managers enough detail to review the entry later without asking the employee to reconstruct the day.
Estimate points should stay separate from actual hours. Linear estimate values describe effort for planning and analytics, while a time entry records clock time spent on an issue. Replacing hours with points makes reports less useful for billing, cost review, and project history.
Review issue time before it moves into billing or payroll review. Check entries with missing notes, unusually long durations, billable flags on internal work, and time logged to the wrong issue. A short weekly review catches most problems while the work is still fresh.
Issue time is more accurate when logged during the workday or shortly after the work ends. A week-end batch entry works only when the person has reliable notes and can tie each duration back to the correct Linear issue. Unassigned blocks create weak records.
A useful note names the work completed, such as implementation, review, debugging, or client-requested change. Long notes slow down entry. Vague notes such as "updates" or "work" create review problems because managers cannot tell why the time belongs to that issue.
Everhour Reporting turns Linear issue time into customizable reports with columns, grouping, filters, date ranges, and exports. Teams can review hours by project, issue, member, status, tag, billable time, labor cost, or invoice status without rebuilding the record in a spreadsheet.
Everhour supports timesheet approvals and locked periods, so submitted time can be reviewed before billing, payroll review, or reporting. Managers can approve, reject, or partially approve entries, then protect approved time from regular member edits.
Track approved hours on Linear issues, group the data by project or member, and export reports from Everhour for client review, billing, and operational visibility.
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