Getting started
The first moves in a team that holds nothing yet.
A brand new team is empty: no category, no time entry, no task. The Add tab says so right away, since it has nothing to offer until a category exists. You fill it in the order of this page, categories first, then entries, up to the moment the statistics start saying something.
If you joined the team through an invitation link, it is probably running already and the categories are there: go straight to the first entries.
Create three or four categories
The “Manage categories” link, on the Add tab, leads to the creation screen.
No category is imposed: it is up to the team to create them. Some people will prefer very precise categories, others broader ones. You add more as the need shows up, and you archive the ones that go unused without losing the time already counted on them.
The colour is not a choice: it follows the order in which the categories were created, so everyone sees the same one.
The first entries
Back on the Add tab, “Add time” asks for the category, then for a duration and a date.
The “plus” and “minus” buttons move by five minutes, the shortcuts set a round duration, and the number in the middle can be typed straight in when you know it. On the date picker, the left arrow steps back one day, which mostly serves to catch up on something forgotten yesterday.
Every save brings you back to the Add screen, ready to record another one or to start a timer.
Start the timer
The other card on the Add tab starts a measurement without asking anything: no category, no note. It stays visible in its banner at the top of every screen, and you keep moving around the application while it runs.
Filing the measurement happens when you stop it: you pick the category, then the duration step opens with the measured minutes already filled in, still editable. Nothing is written until the entry is confirmed.
Statistics, after a few days
On the first evening, the six charts carry only two or three segments. After a week the split becomes visible, and touching a segment opens the detail: who, which category, how long, what share.
Bring the others in
In the settings, the invitation field takes the username of someone who already has an account. The card shows up at the top of their own settings, and accepting switches them onto the team straight away.
For someone without an account yet, the “Generate a link” button produces an invitation link, valid for one hour, to send by whatever means you like. It takes them directly to signup inside this team.
There is nothing to set up on the rights side: every member can rename the team, create categories, invite people, fix tasks. Only the time entries belong to whoever wrote them.
Tasks
Tasks are not there to count time. They are the only other feature of the application: a very simple shared to-do list, with an activation date and assignees.
Set up the display
Still in the settings, three choices that belong to the account rather than to the device: the interface language, the look between Organic and High contrast, and the chart format between Columns and Rows. They follow the account from one phone to the next, and two members of the same team can set them differently.
The same walkthrough on video
These steps also exist as a film, played end to end on an empty team: the Ex Ego demonstration.