# Track your time

_Time a record with a stopwatch or pomodoro, log entries, and read the timesheet._

Canonical: https://snoze.dev/help/track-your-time/

Add a **time-tracking field** to a database and every record gets a timer.
Track a task as you work on it, log time after the fact, and see the totals
roll up — all inside the record, not a separate app.

## Start a timer

1. **Open the field on a record**

   On any record with a time-tracking field, open the timer options and choose
   a **Mode**: **Stopwatch** counts up, **Pomodoro** counts down a fixed focus
   session (1–480 minutes).

2. **Set it up (optional)**

   Pick a sound to play when a pomodoro ends — **Soft chime**, **Digital
   ping**, **Focus bell**, or your own custom audio for this device — and add a
   short **Summary** of what you're working on.

3. **Start**

   Start the stopwatch or focus session. A running timer shows up as a **pill**
   at the top of the app, wherever you are in the workspace.

## The active timer pill

While a timer runs, the pill follows you across the whole app:

- It names what you're tracking and shows the **elapsed** time — or the
  **remaining** time for a pomodoro.
- **Pause** and **resume** without losing the entry, **stop** to save it, or
  **abandon** it to throw it away.
- Click the pill to jump straight back to the record you're timing.

Only one timer runs at a time, so the pill is always about the one thing you're
on right now.

> [!NOTE]
> When a pomodoro's countdown reaches zero, Snoze plays your chosen sound and
> sends a notification — "Focus timer completed" — to your
> [inbox](https://snoze.dev/help/notifications-inbox/), even if you've navigated away.

## Logging time by hand

Not every entry comes from a live timer. Open a record's history and choose
**Log time** to add an entry manually — pick who, when, and how long. Existing
entries can be corrected or deleted from the same list, so a mistimed session is
easy to fix.

## Reading the totals

The field cell shows the record's total tracked time at a glance, and its
history lists recent entries with who logged them and how long each ran. Point
a [chart or metric](https://snoze.dev/help/build-a-dashboard/) at the field to roll time up
across a whole database — hours per person, per project, per week.

> [!TIP]
> Time tracking is a workspace feature that an admin turns on. If you don't see
> the timer options on a field, ask an admin to enable it.