Everhour adds issue-level timers and manual entries inside Linear, giving distributed teams cleaner records for review and billing.
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This page is for teams that manage work in Linear and need hours captured against the issues people actually worked on. A useful record connects each entry to the Linear issue, project, person, date, duration, and a short note. Project billing status and task-level non-billable controls determine billing treatment.
Distributed work makes vague time logs harder to clean up later. A Friday entry called "development" leaves a manager guessing which issue moved, which project absorbed the time, and whether the work belongs in a client-facing total. Issue-level tracking prevents that cleanup by placing the time record beside the work item while the context is still fresh.
A timer fits focused work on one Linear issue, such as fixing a bug, reviewing a pull request, or writing implementation notes. The person starts the timer on the issue, stops it when the work ends, and leaves the resulting duration attached to that issue. This works best when the task has a clear start and finish.
Manual entry fits work recorded after the fact, such as a meeting, offline troubleshooting, or a block of work completed away from the browser. The entry still needs the same core fields: issue, project, date, duration, and note. Billing comes from the project's billing setup, with specific tasks excluded through task-level non-billable controls when needed.
Distributed teams need a shared rule for timing, notes, and review. A practical standard is same-day entry, one issue per entry, and notes that name the result: "tested checkout retry path" or "updated API error handling." That level of detail gives managers enough context without turning time tracking into a second project log.
The common mistake is mixing personal notes, calendar blocks, and end-of-week guesses. Those records break down during billing review because the reviewer cannot match the hours to Linear issue history or the project's billing setup. A better workflow keeps every entry close to the issue and uses manual edits only to correct the record before approval.
A free one-off tool is enough when one person needs a quick export or a small team needs temporary issue-hour totals. A distributed team needs a managed workflow once tracked time affects invoices, payroll review, budgets, or client reporting. At that point, time entries need review rules, locked periods, and a consistent handoff.
Everhour supports that move by capturing time through timers or manual entries inside supported project tools, then feeding timesheets, reports, budgets, invoices, and payroll review. Admins can use approvals, reminders, locked periods, and timer rules so Linear issue hours become a durable record instead of scattered notes.
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Each person should log time against the specific Linear issue that produced the work, with the project, date, duration, and a short note. Billing treatment should follow the project's billing status, with task-level non-billable controls used when specific work should stay out of billable totals.
Timers work for focused issue work with a clear start and stop. Manual entries work for meetings, offline work, and corrections made after the task ends. Both methods need the same issue-level detail so reports do not split clean timer records from vague manual totals.
The issue link matters first because it connects the time record to the work history. The note comes next. A useful note names the activity or result, such as testing, review, implementation, or support follow-up, so a reviewer can understand the entry without asking the person again.
Weekly review works for most teams when members enter time daily. Managers should check missing days, unusually large entries, unclear notes, and project billing setup before time feeds billing, payroll review, or project reporting. Late review turns small corrections into a larger reconciliation task.
End-of-week bulk logging causes the most confusion. A single block of hours spread across several issues hides which work took the time, whether the date matches the actual work, and which project should carry the cost. Issue-level entries keep the record useful.
Everhour Time Tracking lets users start timers or add manual entries inside supported project tools, including Linear through the browser extension. Those entries can feed timesheets, reporting, budgeting, invoicing, and payroll review, with admin controls for approvals, locked periods, reminders, and timer rules.
Everhour reporting turns logged time into reports that can use project, task, member, date range, comments, billable time, cost, and invoice-related columns. Managers can filter, group, export, or schedule reports for billing review, staffing analysis, or project follow-up.
Track approved Linear issue hours through Everhour, then carry the same records into timesheets, reports, budgets, invoices, and payroll review without rebuilding the story later.
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