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One of the most powerful benefits of using Timing<\/a> is that it allows you to export instant reports that include details about how you\u2019ve spent your working hours.<\/p>\n A detailed, project- or task-specific report can be especially useful when it comes to billing clients for your time\u2013but it can also be used for:<\/p>\n In this article, we\u2019ll take a look at how to create a report in Timing, as well as different types of reports you might want to generate to get richer insight into your most valuable resource: your time. If you\u2019ve ever tried to manually build a timesheet of your working hours and minutes, then you know how tedious and time-consuming it can be. You\u2019ve got to review your time usage, check for accuracy, and input those numbers into a clean, professional-looking format.<\/p>\n Timing essentially automates this task, allowing you to export your time usage into the format of your choice (Excel, CSV, PDF, HTML, or JSON). Your only task here is to choose settings that make the most sense for your report.<\/p>\n Your \u201cReports tab\u201d will display your total time usage. Here\u2019s an example of what that might look like:<\/p>\n On the right side of the page, you\u2019ll see \u201cReport Settings.\u201d At the top of Report Settings, you\u2019ll choose a preset. Depending on the kind of report you want to generate, you have a variety of presets to choose from:<\/p>\n Your basic timesheet will divide your time up by day to show you how many total hours and minutes you worked, broken down per project. Time that you explicitly accounted for by creating tasks is listed next to the remaining app time you spent on those projects.<\/p>\n This kind of report might come in handy for your personal usage, or if you work for a single employer for whom you bill all your hours.<\/p>\n If you would prefer to see your time broken down by week and day, rather than day and project, you can select Timesheet (Week + Day). This will allow you to see how much time you\u2019ve spent each week for a selected period (such as one month), and then per day.<\/p>\n This preset is a good place to start for billing hours to a particular client. If you would like to restrict the report to individual projects, you can do so. Simply select the project (or client) of your choice in the project list on the left hand side to see only hours and minutes displayed for that project.<\/p>\n If you\u2019d like to see your time broken down per week, select \u201cWeekly Snippet.\u201d This allows you to see everything you did in a given week, and is particularly useful if you block your time into tasks. The Weekly Snippet can be a useful tool if you report time back to an employer at the end of every week, or just to get a feel of all the things you accomplished during the week.<\/p>\n This preset is similar to the \u201cApplications\u201d card on the Overview screen, in that it displays the time you spend per application\u2013for example, Chrome, Microsoft Word, DEVONThink, Adobe Acrobat, or Excel.<\/p>\n Time Per Document displays the amount of time you\u2019ve spent on specific documents or websites. This may be particularly useful if you would like to bill a client for a single project created on a document (such as a content writer billing for an article).<\/p>\n The ultra-detailed preset breaks down your time usage into fine detail, displaying each day and what you were doing by the hour, broken down into minutes. An ultra-detailed report won\u2019t be necessary in most cases, but may prove useful if you need to parse apart your time for a particular client or project.<\/p>\n Raw tasks breaks down your time per task in chronological fashion.This preset will only be useful if you use the Tasks function in Timing<\/a>, and is probably the most practical as a starting point for further processing. This is an example of what raw tasks might look like:<\/p>\n Similarly to Raw Tasks, Raw App Usage breaks your time down per application, displayed in chronological order for a given date range. Raw App usage provides extensively detailed data that will most likely only be useful to you for further processing.<\/p>\n Now that you\u2019ve chosen a preset<\/strong>, you\u2019ll want to further narrow down your data by using the \u201cGroup By\u201d function, located directly below the preset menu.<\/p>\n Group By allows you to group your data by time period (i.e. Year\/Month\/Week\/Day), or by project. You can also group by \u201ctop-level project or second-level project\u201d. For example, if you have a project called \u201cProject A\u201d as a sub-project of \u201cClient X\u201d, \u201cClient X\u201d would be the top-level project and \u201cProject A\u201d the second-level project. Note that customizing what to group by requires a Timing Expert license.<\/p>\n This should make it easier to generate reports spanning multiple sub-projects\u2013ideal for clients for whom you have multiple projects.<\/p>\n To fine-tune your report even more, you can choose to include (or omit) Task titles, Timespan, Notes, and App Usage in your report. This can make the report clearer and easier to navigate for your client or other recipient. Since your App Usage is automatically absorbed into Tasks, you won\u2019t want to check \u201cEven if already included in a task,\u201d as that can lead to double counting.<\/p>\n Once you\u2019re satisfied with the amount of detail in your report, you\u2019re ready to export…<\/p>\n Now, you\u2019re ready to generate your fresh, accurately detailed report. One of the benefits of using Timing is that it gives you a variety of formats in which to export your time, including:<\/p>\n You have the option of choosing a duration format for your time-tracking report. For example, if you would like 2 hours, 35 minutes, and 42 seconds to be displayed as 02:35:42, then you\u2019ll choose the XX:YY:ZZ format. If it\u2019s the case that you would prefer 2h 35m 42s, then you\u2019ll choose Xh Ym Zs. The \u201cFractional Hours\u201d and \u201cFractional Seconds\u201d formats are mostly useful when you want to further process this data in e.g. Excel.<\/p>\n If you\u2019d like, you can also display the criteria selected by \u201cGroup By\u201d in the report. Simply select \u201cGroup Activities in Report.\u201d<\/p>\n Finally, if you\u2019re looking to generate an extremely detailed report, you can \u201cinclude short entries\u201d in the report (entries that took just a few minutes, or less than one minute).<\/p>\n Now, click \u201cExport\u201d and you\u2019re ready to go!<\/p>\n [content_upgrade cu_id=”1135″]Don\u2019t Forget to Download: “What Kind of Report Should You Create?” Worksheet<\/strong>[content_upgrade_button]Click Here[\/content_upgrade_button][\/content_upgrade]<\/p>\n If you\u2019d like to generate detailed, accurate reports such as those described above\u2013but you\u2019re not yet a Timing user\u2013you can give Timing a free trial here<\/a>. See for yourself how this time-tracking application can help you automatically generate reports for improved invoicing and overview of your time usage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of the most powerful benefits of using Timing<\/a> is that it allows you to export instant reports that include details about how you\u2019ve spent your working hours.<\/p>\n A detailed, project- or task-specific report can be especially useful when it comes to billing clients for your time\u2013but it can also be used for:<\/p>\n\n
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Timesheet (Week + Day)<\/h3>\n
Weekly Snippet<\/h3>\n
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Time Per Document<\/h3>\n
Ultra-Detailed<\/h3>\n
Raw Tasks<\/h3>\n
Raw App Usage<\/h3>\n
\u201cGroup By\u201d to Further Narrow Down Your Results<\/h3>\n
Next Level Reporting: What to Include?<\/h3>\n
Exporting Your Report<\/h3>\n
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Create Accurate, Clean Reports with Timing<\/h2>\n
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