Notes on time, tracking, and the tools we use to ship.
Honest writing on Jira time tracking, native desktop apps, offline-first design, and how engineers actually log their hours. Updated whenever we have something worth saying.
Jira time tracking without admin rights: what actually works
Track time in Jira Cloud without a Marketplace install. Compare native worklogs, OAuth, and API-token tools, including the permissions each path needs.
Read postIdle detection lands in our Jira time tracker: keep, subtract, or stop
Planim Time 0.4 adds idle detection to our native Jira time tracker: keep, subtract, or stop the gap when you step away. Plus one-click Atlassian sign-in.
Read postJira time tracking on mobile: a phone logs time, it doesn't time it
You can log work in the Jira mobile app, but it has no timer. Why a phone is for logging time after the fact, not for running a clock as you work.
Read postCapacity planning in Jira with time tracking data
Jira measures load, not capacity. Why its workload reports total remaining estimate, and how logged hours become a number you can plan a sprint against.
Read postHow to change logged hours in Jira: edit, move, and delete worklogs
Open the issue, find the entry on the Work log tab, and use its edit or delete control. That's the native path; a calendar is faster if you edit often.
Read postWhat did I work on? Rebuilding Jira worklogs from your own activity
Jira already records what you touched: assignments, comments, status changes. Here is how to turn that activity trail back into honest worklogs.
Read postLogging time across multiple Jira projects and instances
Tracking time across many Jira projects works natively; across separate instances it doesn't. The line is the authorization boundary, and where JQL stops.
Read postJira automatic time tracking: what "automatic" really means
No tool tracks Jira time fully automatically. What the word covers: activity capture, start/stop triggers, API delivery, and the step that stays manual.
Read postTime tracking without micromanagement: a guide for Jira team leads
Time tracking becomes micromanagement when the data answers 'is this person working enough'. Four dials a lead controls, and a rollout that keeps trust.
Read postHow to export Jira worklogs to CSV or Excel: totals vs worklog rows
Jira's CSV export rolls worklogs up to one Time Spent number per issue, and its Log Work columns carry wrong dates. Three ways to get real worklog rows.
Read postClockify vs Tempo for Jira: two-way sync vs finance depth
Clockify and Tempo both integrate inside Jira. Compare the five-user free tier, two-way worklog sync, admin install, approvals, budgets, and system-of-record trade-offs.
Read postWhy your Jira time estimates are always wrong (and what to do)
Jira estimates are biased low, not randomly off. Why software estimates run short, why Jira hides the miss, and how logging real time calibrates them.
Read postThe Jira Cloud Worklog REST API: a practical guide
The Jira Cloud worklog REST API end to end: authentication, add/read/edit/delete, bulk worklog/updated and worklog/list endpoints, retries, and examples.
Read postBillable hours in Jira: no native field, what teams do instead
Jira has no billable flag. Four patterns teams use (labels, custom fields, separate projects, add-ons) and the issue-vs-worklog tradeoff that decides.
Read postStory points vs hours in Jira: can you use both?
Story Points and hours in Jira measure different things. When to use each, where Sprint Burndown clashes, and the pattern that works when teams try both.
Read postTempo vs Clockwork: which Jira time tracker for your team
Tempo and Clockwork compared head-to-head: prices, free tiers, approvals, leave tracking, and the team size where the math flips between them.
Read postJira time tracking reports: what's built in and where it stops
What Jira's built-in time tracking reports cover, and where they stop: no cross-project totals, no date ranges, no per-user timesheet.
Read postHow to log work in Jira: the worklog dialog, JQL, and the API
Logging work in Jira three ways: the worklog dialog field by field, JQL to check what you logged, and the REST API for scripted worklogs.
Read postTempo Timesheets alternatives in 2026, by use case
Honest shortlist of Tempo alternatives organised by what your team actually needs: simpler timers, lighter PSAs, in-Jira plugins, or monitoring tools.
Read postOriginal Estimate vs Remaining vs Time Spent in Jira
What Original Estimate, Remaining Estimate, and Time Spent really do in Jira, how they move when you log work, and which one your sprint reports use.
Read postForgot to log time in Jira? A clean way to backfill worklogs
Forgot to log time in Jira? How to backfill worklogs for past dates using your calendar, git history, and the REST API, with honest rounding rules.
Read postLeaving Tempo: a working playbook for moving Jira worklogs
How to export historical worklogs from Tempo, pick a successor, backfill Jira, and the pieces of your workflow that don't survive the move.
Read postTracking Jira time without screenshots or activity scores
What screenshot-heavy Jira trackers capture, the morale, legal, and security costs of it, and the case for a timer that records hours and nothing else.
Read postFree Jira time trackers in 2026: which ones are actually free
Seven Jira tracking products plus Jira's built-in worklog, and several definitions of 'free'. See which free tiers include real Jira sync and which gate it behind paid.
Read postThe best Jira time trackers for engineering teams in 2026
Five Jira time trackers compared by an engineer who built one of them: Tempo, Clockwork, Everhour, Clockify, Planim Time, ranked by use case.
Read postHow to track time in Jira: every method, ranked by friction
Five ways to log time in Jira, ranked by setup effort: native worklogs, Marketplace plugins, browser extensions, desktop apps, and the worklog API.
Read postWhere Jira time trackers store credentials: API tokens and OAuth
A security review of how Tempo, Clockwork, Everhour, Clockify, and Planim Time handle Jira API tokens, OAuth credentials, Marketplace access, and revocation.
Read postTwo-way Jira worklog sync: how to verify it
What two-way Jira worklog sync means, how to test edits and conflicts, and how Planim Time reconciles Jira with its local offline store.
Read postWhy a desktop Jira time tracker, not a Marketplace plugin
Why we shipped Planim Time as a menu-bar binary, not a Jira Marketplace plugin, and how that affects outages, offline tracking, and security.
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