The desktop app
Starting work, breaks, private time, idle, updates.
- How do I start and stop my work day?Click Start work in the Timerfly app when you begin, and Stop work when you finish. Nothing is recorded outside your work day.3 steps· with a picture
- Does Timerfly start tracking by itself, or do I press Start?Your company chooses. Either the day starts by itself on your first keyboard or mouse use in work hours, or nothing is recorded until you press Start work.3 steps
- How do breaks work?Click Take a break in the app and pick how long. Tracking pauses and starts again by itself when the break ends.3 steps· with a picture
- Can I pause tracking for something personal?Yes. Choose Private time in the app: nothing about what you do is recorded until you click Resume. Your manager sees only that the time was private.3 steps
- When does time count as idle?After a few minutes with no keyboard or mouse (3 minutes unless your company changed it). Idle time isn’t counted as tracked or worked time: not in hours, overtime or the payroll Excel. It’s shown on its own.
- What do Total, Productive and Effective in the app mean?Total is your tracked time today. Productive is the part spent in apps and sites that count as work. Effective is productive time compared with the hours you’re expected to work today.
- What happens at the end of my shift?If you’re still working when your hours end, the app tells you once that more time counts as overtime. Press Stop work when you’re done.
- What if the internet goes off?Keep working. The app saves everything on the computer and sends it when the internet is back.
- How does the app update?By itself. It downloads new versions in the background and installs them at a quiet moment, or when you click Restart.
- Does the app start when the computer starts?Yes, by itself. You can switch that off in the app’s settings with Start Timerfly when I log in.
- I use two computers. Is my time counted twice?No. Install the app on both. Time when both are active at once is counted once.
- How do I sign out of the desktop app, or quit it?Open the app and click the power icon at the bottom: Sign out or Quit Timerfly.
- How do I record time on a project from the app?In the app, under Working on…, pick a task or project and click Start. Click Stop when you switch.
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