Everhour adds issue-level timers and reports for design teams working from Linear issues and projects.
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Design teams use Linear issues and projects to organize the work that moves from request to delivery. Time tracking adds the operational record: the hours spent on each issue. A useful entry attaches time to the issue that produced it, rather than leaving the work in a separate spreadsheet or a weekly memory dump.
Each record should carry the issue, project, date, duration, billable flag, and a short note. The note should identify the work performed, such as exploration, revision, review, or handoff support. That structure gives managers and clients a reviewable trail without forcing designers to translate issue work into a separate naming system.
A timer fits focused issue work because it records the session while the designer works. Starting and stopping the timer from the Linear issue keeps the entry attached to the correct task, project, and status context. It also reduces the risk of assigning time to the wrong client-facing deliverable after several issue switches.
Manual entry fits clean after-the-fact records when the designer knows the exact work block and issue. It should still include the same fields as timer time: issue, project, date, duration, billable flag, and note. Mixing timer and manual entries is workable when the team reviews them consistently and treats vague catch-up entries as corrections, not primary records.
Design work often includes exploration, revisions, review, and support across several issues. Reports stay useful when those entries keep their Linear workspace, project, issue, status, and tag data. Grouping by those fields shows which design work consumed time, which issues stayed within expectations, and which categories need a closer review.
Linear estimates describe effort through selected estimate scales, and Linear analytics use effort as the estimate value. Recorded time serves a different purpose: it shows clock time spent on issue work. Treat estimates as planning context and tracked hours as the review record for billing, staffing, budget, and retrospective analysis.
A one-off record is enough when one designer needs to document a small batch of Linear issue work. It can answer a simple question: which issue received the time, who worked on it, and whether the time should be billed. That approach breaks down when several designers contribute entries across projects, clients, and review periods.
Everhour turns those entries into a managed workflow by connecting Linear issue time to approvals, locked periods, reports, and billing handoff. Managers can review submitted time before payroll or billing, protect approved records from later edits, and use reporting fields to separate billable design work from internal design work.
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A design time entry should include the Linear issue, project, date, duration, billable flag, and a note that names the work performed. The note does not need a long narrative. It needs enough context for a manager or client reviewer to understand whether the time belongs to exploration, revision, review, or delivery support.
Designers should split exploration and revision time when those activities answer different review or billing questions. Separate entries make reports easier to read because each record explains the type of work behind the hours. A single combined entry is acceptable only when the same issue, billing status, and review purpose apply to the whole block.
Linear estimates are planning values, and Linear analytics treat effort as the estimate value. Tracked hours answer a different question: the time actually spent on an issue. Use estimates to compare expected effort with reported time, then use recorded hours for billing review, cost analysis, and workload reporting.
Timer time works best for focused issue sessions because it captures the work while it happens. Manual time works when the designer records a known block after finishing. The main rule is consistency: both entry types need the same issue, project, date, duration, billable flag, and note.
The fastest mistake is logging broad daily totals without issue-level context. A line such as "design work, 6 hours" does not show which Linear issue used the time or whether the hours were billable. Issue-linked entries preserve the project and task trail that reports need.
Everhour Reporting turns Linear-linked time into configurable reports with more than 45 columns, grouping, filters, and exports. Managers can group design hours by project, issue, member, status, tag, billable time, cost, or invoice status to review the work behind each project.
Everhour Timesheets let team members submit weekly project hours or working hours for review. Managers can approve, reject, or partially approve submitted time, and approved records stay locked for regular members so billing and payroll reviews use a stable record.
Track approved hours from Linear issues into Everhour reports, approvals, and billing workflows so design work stays attached to the projects that produced it.
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