Everhour adds issue-level timers and manual entries inside Linear, so reported hours stay tied to the work.
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Use this workflow when you need each time entry attached to the Linear issue that produced the work. The practical result is a record you can review by issue, project, person, date, and status instead of a loose weekly total. That matters when a client asks where time went, a manager reviews delivery cost, or a team compares actual work against issue estimates.
Each entry needs enough detail to survive review. A useful record can carry the Linear issue, project, date, duration, and comments. Billing context sits in Everhour settings: admins set billing status at the project level, and specific tasks can be marked non-billable when their time should stay out of billable totals. Moving hours into a general project bucket makes later review less defensible.
A timer fits work that starts on a Linear issue and stays focused there. Start it when development, QA, design, triage, or review begins, then stop it when you switch issues. This keeps the duration close to the actual working session and reduces end-of-day reconstruction. Add a comment when the entry covers a specific subtask, decision, blocker, or handoff.
Manual entry fits work captured after the fact, such as a meeting about one issue, a short review, or time logged from a calendar. Use it deliberately, not as a weekly memory exercise. A same-day manual entry with a clear issue and comment gives managers better data than one eight-hour block spread across several issues without context.
Linear issue estimates describe effort or complexity. Linear estimate scales include Exponential 1/2/4/8/16, Fibonacci 1/2/3/5/8, Linear 1/2/3/4/5, and T-shirt XS/S/M/L/XL, with optional extended values. Linear analytics use effort to mean the estimate value, not logged clock time or cost. Treat estimates as planning signals, then keep actual hours in the time record.
Unestimated Linear issues can receive a default value of 1 estimate point unless that behavior is disabled in estimate settings. That default keeps point-based planning moving, but it does not answer how many hours a specific issue consumed. Comparing issue estimates with reported time works only when the team keeps both fields clean and does not treat points as a substitute for timesheet hours.
A one-off issue log is enough when you need a quick record for one person, one project, or a short client question. It stops being enough when multiple people enter time, managers approve weekly records, or finance needs a billing and payroll handoff. At that point, the workflow needs approvals, locked periods, reporting, and a durable source of issue-level history.
Everhour turns Linear issue entries into a managed record by keeping timers, manual logs, day and week timesheets, and Linear-aware reports in one time layer. Everhour Resource Planning also gives managers visual timelines, member and project views, weekly capacity, availability gaps, scheduled time off, and planned-vs-actual comparisons, so issue-level hours feed workload planning instead of staying isolated.
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A strong issue time entry can include the Linear issue, project, date, duration, and comments. The person who logged the time should be clear from the record. Billing status is set at the project level in Everhour, while specific tasks can be marked non-billable when their time should be excluded from billable totals.
Issue estimates should stay separate from logged hours. Linear estimates represent effort or complexity, with scales such as Fibonacci, Exponential, Linear, and T-shirt sizing. Linear analytics use effort to mean the estimate value. Logged hours record time actually spent. Mixing the two creates unreliable billing, workload, and project cost records.
A timer is better for focused work on one issue because it captures the session as it happens. Manual entry is better for time added after the work, such as a short review or meeting tied to an issue. The mistake is entering large catch-up blocks without comments, because those blocks make issue-level totals harder to trust.
Issue-level totals show time attached to individual issues, while project totals can include every tracked entry under the project. Differences appear when time is logged to the project instead of an issue, moved after review, marked non-billable at the task level, or entered on a different date range. Review the grouping, billing settings, and date filter before treating the numbers as inconsistent.
Teams should review issue time before billing, payroll, or capacity planning uses the data. Check unusually large entries, missing comments, project-only time that should belong to an issue, and manual entries added long after the work date. A weekly review catches mistakes while the work is still fresh enough to correct.
Everhour Resource Planning uses tracked time alongside visual timelines, member and project views, weekly capacity, availability gaps, scheduled time off, and planned-vs-actual comparisons. Managers can connect issue-level work to workload planning, then adjust assignments when actual time shows a person or project drifting from the plan.
Everhour adds timers, manual logging, day and week timesheets, and reports using Linear workspace, project, issue, status, and tag data. Managers can review submitted time, approve or reject entries, and lock completed periods so issue-level records stay stable before billing, payroll, or reporting.
Track approved Linear issue hours in Everhour, compare actuals with planned capacity, and carry review-ready records into reporting, billing, and workload planning.
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