Everhour adds timers and manual entries to Linear issues so hours stay tied to the work that created them.
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This page is for teams that manage work in Linear and need hours captured against the exact issue that produced the work. A useful record connects the issue, project, date, duration, billing treatment, and note. That structure lets a manager review one issue without reconstructing the week from calendar memory, status changes, or scattered comments.
Linear issues already carry work context such as team, status, assignee, priority, labels, cycle, project, and estimate. Time tracking per issue adds a separate work-duration record to that context. The issue remains the place where the work is organized, while the time entry records the elapsed work needed for billing, payroll review, cost reporting, or delivery analysis.
A timer fits active development, review, support, or planning work where the person starts work on one Linear issue and stops when the session ends. It reduces end-of-day reconstruction and keeps the entry attached to the issue while the work is fresh. The note should name the actual activity, such as implementation, review, debugging, investigation, or documentation.
Manual entry fits finished work that was not timed live, short follow-up sessions, corrections, or backfilled time after a meeting. A clean manual entry still needs the same core fields: issue, project, person, date, duration, and note. Keep one entry per real work session when review accuracy matters, rather than grouping unrelated issue work into one daily block.
Linear estimates describe issue size or effort using team-level scales such as Exponential, Fibonacci, Linear, or T-Shirt. Treat those values as planning signals, then record actual time as duration. A five-point issue and a five-hour issue are different records, and mixing them creates bad cost reports, weak delivery analysis, and confusing per-issue totals.
Per-issue time becomes useful when the same issue carries both planned effort and actual work duration. A manager can compare issue size, elapsed hours, assignee, labels, and project context without forcing a fixed points-to-hours conversion. The common mistake is treating estimate points as clock time, then using that shortcut for invoices or staffing decisions.
A one-off entry works for a single issue, a short freelance task, or a quick internal review. It gives you a usable record when the only job is to capture who worked, on which issue, on which date, and for how long. That approach breaks down when several people log time, managers need approvals, or billing depends on locked records.
A managed workflow gives issue time a review path. Everhour Time Tracking captures task and project hours with timers or manual entries, then feeds timesheets, reporting, budgeting, invoicing, and payroll review. Admin controls such as approvals, locked periods, reminders, and timer rules turn Linear issue activity into a record the business can reuse.
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A complete entry should identify the Linear issue, project, person, date, duration, and a short work note. The note should describe the activity completed during that time, not repeat the issue title. Billing treatment should come from the project billing setup and any task-level non-billable control, so review does not rely on guesswork later.
Separate entries work better when the issue spans different days, people, or activities. One developer session, one review session, and one QA follow-up should stay distinct because each has its own date, person, and work context. A single combined block hides handoffs and makes approval, billing, and per-issue analysis harder to trust.
Estimate points should stay separate from logged duration. Linear estimate values represent planned effort or size, while time entries record actual work time. Using points as hours creates false precision, especially across teams that use different scales. Keep both records visible so planning accuracy and actual delivery cost can be reviewed separately.
Billing status is set at the project level in Everhour. Within a billable project, a specific task can be marked non-billable so its time is excluded from billable totals. Use that control for internal planning, administrative follow-up, rework, or any issue work the client agreement says should stay out of the invoice.
Review issue-level time before the week is closed, before payroll review, and before client billing. Weekly review catches missing entries while the work is still familiar. Billing review should focus on billing treatment, notes, unusual durations, and entries attached to the wrong issue or project.
Everhour Time Tracking lets people use timers or manual entries on Linear work, then sends those task and project hours into timesheets, reports, budgets, invoices, and payroll review. Admins can use approvals, locked periods, reminders, and timer rules to keep submitted issue time controlled after review.
Everhour Reporting uses synced Linear workspace, project, issue, status, and tag data so tracked hours can be reviewed in the same work context. Reports can group or filter time by issue, project, member, date range, billable time, cost, and related fields for billing or operational review.
Track Linear issue time with Everhour Time Tracking, then route submitted hours through approvals, locked periods, reports, and billing review so issue-level work becomes a durable record for invoicing and payroll review.
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