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wallticker records what you actually did, not what you planned to do. Press Play in the header and the clock runs; press Stop and you have an entry. Everything else - the project, the client, the description, the tags - can be filled in later, or never.

1. Press the round Play button in the header to start tracking immediately. Nothing has to be set up first.
2. Fill in the details while it runs: the pencil on the running entry opens the same dialog you use for finished ones.
3. Press Stop when you are done. The entry lands on today, and a strip appears offering Undo, Edit or Delete for a few seconds.

There are four ways time gets into wallticker, and they all produce the same kind of entry: the timer, the Add entry button beside Play for time you already spent, typing a duration straight into a Timesheet cell, and importing meetings from Google Calendar.

Only one timer runs at a time. Starting a new one stops the old one, so you can never double-count an hour.

• Open the home page

The home page shows one period at a time in one of three views. The view switcher and the period control sit together in the toolbar, and both remember your choice on this device - so if you always work in Week view over a month, that is what you get back tomorrow.

• Timesheet - an editable grid with one row per project, or per client and project on Pro. Type a duration into a cell and the entry is created for you.
• List - your entries as rows grouped by day, each with a running day total, and the fastest view for editing individual entries.
• Week - seven columns showing each day's entries as blocks, with planned-versus-actual bars along the top.

The Timesheet grid deserves one paragraph of explanation, because it does something clever that is easy to misread. Typing into a cell does not create a fresh entry every time: it grows or shrinks that row's LAST entry on that day, and a brand new entry starts where the day's latest entry ended, or at 09:00 if the day is empty. Clearing a cell removes the time again. If a value would shrink an entry below zero, wallticker refuses and tells you to edit the entry in List view instead.

A running timer shows in the grid and ticks live, but its cell cannot be edited until you stop it. The period control offers Day, Week, two weeks, Month, a custom range, and a rolling window that always follows the current week.

An entry that crosses midnight appears under both days so you can see it from either side, but it is counted once, on the day it started. That is why a day total can differ from the sum of the blocks you can see.

• Timesheet and list settings

A break is its own kind of entry. It sits on the timeline like work does, so you can see when your day actually paused, but it is never added into a work total - not on the home page, not in a report, not in an export.

1. While a timer is running, press the coffee button. The work entry stops and a break starts in the same motion.
2. Press Resume when you are back. The work entry restarts with its project, description and tags intact, so nothing has to be re-picked.
3. Or press Stop on the break to end the day there.

You can also record a break after the fact: the Add entry dialog has Work, Break and Absence as entry types, and an existing entry can be switched between them while you edit it. A running break updates live on screen and cannot be edited until it is stopped.

Because breaks are excluded everywhere, a day that reads 6:00 of work with a 45 minute break covered 6 hours 45 minutes of wall-clock time. Reports and exports both say so where it matters.

Nothing recorded in wallticker is final. Every entry can be edited or deleted from wherever you can see it, and there is no separate approval or lock step to work around.

• Just stopped the wrong timer - use the strip that appears under the toolbar: Undo puts the timer back, or jump straight to Edit or Delete.
• Wrong time or wrong project - open the entry from List or Week view and change any field, including its type.
• Wrong amount on a Timesheet row - retype the cell. Clearing it removes the time.

For anything older than the period on screen, use the Entries page. It browses everything you have ever recorded, over a period you choose - week, month, quarter, half year, full year, or a custom range - and filters it by project, client, entry type, tag, and free text searched across both descriptions and notes. Results are grouped by day, newest first by default, fifty to a page.

The Export button on the Entries page covers the whole period you picked, every page of it, not just the rows currently on screen. It follows the period and the project, client and tag filters - the entry-type filter and the text search narrow what you SEE, not what you export.

• Open the Entries page

Four separate dimensions, all on one page, each in a section you can collapse. Which sections you leave open is remembered on this device.

• My Companies - the legal entities you invoice AS. Most people have one. Every client belongs to one of them, and one is the default for new clients.
• Clients - the businesses you bill. Each carries a color, an organization number, an address and optionally a contact person, and each belongs to one of your companies.
• Projects - what the work actually is. A project has a color, can belong to a client, and can carry a weekly or monthly hour budget.
• Tags - colored labels you can attach to any entry, several at a time, cutting across projects and clients.

A budget is a cap in hours per week or per month. Nothing is blocked when you pass it - the elapsed figure in the timer bar and the project summary simply recolor, so you find out while there is still time to do something about it. The Reports page shows live budget consumption against each budgeted project's own current window.

Archiving and deleting are different on purpose. Archiving a project or a client hides it from the pickers and keeps every entry that ever used it. Deleting a project keeps its entries too - they simply lose the project label. Deleting a tag only takes the label off your entries. When something genuinely cannot be deleted, because a client still has projects or entries behind it, wallticker says so before you try and offers the way through.

On the free plan your three oldest active projects take new time. Anything beyond the cap stays entirely yours - rename it, export it, delete it - it just cannot receive new entries. Archive one and the next in line takes its place.

• Open Projects
• Clients in Settings

The Calendar page is where you say what a day is supposed to look like, before you work it. It shows a month at a time, with your planned hours, your recorded hours and your days off in the same grid, so a thin week explains itself at a glance.

• Planned hours - an estimate for a day, optionally split per project. The cell then shows progress against the plan: orange while under, purple at or over.
• Absence days - mark a whole or half day as Vacation, Sick or Care of child (VAB). A marked day reduces the hours you are expected to work.
• Public holidays - shown automatically for the region you set in Settings. Days like Christmas Eve appear as informational half-day markers.

Select days by dragging across the grid, or with Ctrl or Cmd and A for the whole month, then use the bar that appears to set hours on all of them at once, add to what is already there, or mark them absent. There is a "working days this month" preset for the common case. Clicking a single day opens its details, where you can add and edit entries without leaving the calendar.

Expected hours for a period are your daily target multiplied by the working days in it, minus whatever absence covers - a full day counts as zero, a half day as half your target, and this is the same regardless of which kind of absence it was. Absence also comes in a second shape: a timed absence entry, which sits on the timeline with a start and an end, may overlap work, and is never counted into any total.

Sick and Care of child are data concerning health under the GDPR, so wallticker asks for your explicit consent the first time you record one, and writes nothing until you give it. Only the date, the type, and whether it was a full or half day are stored - never a reason and never a diagnosis. Withdrawing consent in Settings deletes those records. Vacation is not health data and is never gated.

• Open the Calendar
• Targets and holidays in Settings

The Reports page answers where the time went, for any period you pick, using the same period and filter controls as the Entries page. Every number on it is built from completed work - a running timer is never included anywhere.

• Table - the report as rows, on screen, uncapped, and exactly what an export of the same settings would produce.
• Charts - hours per project over time, a project share donut, per-tag totals, break share, an average-hours-per-weekday profile, and when your working day tends to begin and end.
• Schedule - expected against actual for the period, with absence and public holidays already taken into account, and a pace marker showing where today should have put you.
• Budgets - live consumption against each budgeted project, measured in that project's own current week or month rather than the period you are browsing.

The Export Center turns any of this into a file. Choose the format - CSV or PDF - then the grouping: flat, by day, week or month, by client, project or tag, or a matrix of days against projects. Client, project and tag groupings can nest a time grouping inside them.

Then choose how much detail each group carries: just the totals, a day summary with first start, last end, breaks and net hours, or every individual entry as its own row. Columns are switches - times, project, client, description, notes, tags, breaks, weekday prefixes, empty days, per-day and per-week subtotals, and a summary block at the end. Any switch that does not apply to your current grouping greys out and says why. A live preview matches the file exactly.

A PDF can also carry a header identifying who the document is from and who it is for, drawn from your profile and companies. Save any configuration as a named preset and it follows you across devices, reusable from both the Reports page and the Entries page.

An export always covers the whole period you picked, not just the rows on screen. Breaks are never counted into work totals, and an entry with several tags counts once per tag - so tag rows can legitimately add up to more than the overall total.

• Open Reports

If your day is already described by meetings, you can import them as time entries instead of retyping them. The connection is read-only: wallticker reads your events and never writes anything back to your calendar.

1. Go to Settings, then Integrations, and press Connect. Google asks you to sign in and to approve read-only access to your events.
2. You come back to the same settings page with a confirmation, showing which Google account is linked and since when.
3. On the Calendar page, press "Import meetings". The dialog opens on the month the calendar is showing, and has its own month steppers.
4. Pick the meetings you want, individually or a whole day at a time, and optionally give them all one project and some tags.
5. Import. You get a count of what landed, what was already imported, and what was skipped.

Meetings you have declined and all-day events are never offered. A meeting you already imported shows as such and cannot be imported twice, and one that would overlap an entry you already have is disabled with the conflict named. If the import lands entries in a different month from the one you were looking at, closing the dialog takes you there.

Disconnecting deletes the stored access and revokes it at Google. Entries you already imported are ordinary entries and stay exactly where they are. If the access expires or is revoked from Google's side, wallticker notices and asks you to reconnect rather than failing quietly.

• Connect in Settings
• What else we connect to

wallticker is built to be driven from the keyboard. Single-key shortcuts cover the timer and moving around, and one chord opens a search box over the whole app.

• Anywhere in the app - S starts or stops the timer, B switches to a break, R resumes your last work entry with its project and tags, and question mark opens the full list.
• On the home page - N opens the Add entry dialog, the left and right arrows step the period you are looking at, T jumps to today, and V cycles the three views.
• Ctrl or Cmd with K opens the search palette from anywhere: type a word and it finds pages, settings, your own projects, clients, companies and tags, and these help sections.

Single-key shortcuts never fire while you are typing in a field, while a dialog is open, or when a modifier key is held - so they cannot interrupt you mid-sentence. You can turn them off entirely in Settings under Interface. The full list is always one click away too: the keyboard icon in the header on a computer, or the menu button on a phone - which matters if you have turned shortcuts off, because the question mark stops working with them.

Ctrl or Cmd with K is the one exception: it is a chord rather than a single key, it cannot collide with typing, and it keeps working even with single-key shortcuts turned off. The search also matches across languages - searching "semester" finds the vacation settings even with the app in English.

• Shortcut settings

The free tier is a complete tracker, not a trial that expires. Pro adds the business layer on top - the parts you need when you are billing someone else for the time.

• Free - the timer, breaks, manual entries, all three home views, the Entries browser with its filters and search, up to three active projects taking new time, tags you already have, CSV export of any period, five languages and dark mode.
• Pro - clients and multiple companies, creating tags and attaching them, unlimited active projects, project budgets, the Calendar planning layer with absence and public holidays, the Reports page, the Export Center with PDF and presets, the Google Calendar import, and the Bokio integration that turns tracked time into invoice drafts.

Where a Pro feature meets a free account, wallticker shows the feature rather than hiding it, marks it with a lock, and says what it does before you spend any effort on it. Some surfaces let you try the interaction and tell you plainly that nothing was saved. Data you recorded on Pro never becomes unreadable if you go back to free - it stays viewable, editable and exportable.

Three things are never behind a plan, on principle and by law: downloading all your data, deleting your account, and withdrawing health-data consent. Those are statutory rights, and charging for them would not be legal.

• See the plans

Settings is seven pages on one rail. Changes are saved by a bar that appears when a form is dirty, and if you try to leave with something unsaved you are asked first rather than losing it.

• Profile - your name and phone number, versioned so an old export keeps the details that were true when it was made, plus the email you sign in with.
• My Companies - the legal entities you invoice as, and what a PDF export shows in its header.
• Clients - the companies you bill, the same list as the Clients section on the Projects page.
• Tracking - daily and weekly targets, public holidays, forgotten-timer reminders and auto-stop, the estimate quick chips, and how entry lists are sorted.
• Integrations - connect Google Calendar or Bokio, and set whose public holidays apply.
• Interface - which side the mobile menu opens from, and whether single-key shortcuts are on.
• Account - your plan, downloading your data, health-data consent, and deleting your account.

Two settings on the Tracking page are worth knowing about before they surprise you. The forgotten-timer prompt asks, when you next open the app, whether a timer that has run past your threshold should be stopped at a sensible time. Auto-stop is the harder backstop: it stops a runaway timer for you even with the app closed, which is why its limit has to sit at or above the prompt threshold.

Your data is yours and the controls are self-service. Download everything as a single JSON file - every entry, project, client, company, tag, setting, estimate and absence day - whenever you like, on any plan. Correct anything in place. Delete the account from the same page.

Deleting your account is reversible for 30 days. You are redirected to a page showing the deletion date, and signing in during that window lets you reactivate immediately. After the date passes, the data is gone.

• Open Settings
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