What timedart is and how to track and bill your first work.

Getting started

timedart is a local-first app for tracking billable time and turning it into invoices. Your data lives on your device — no account required.

Note: A new install starts with a small example — one client, two projects, and some tasks and time entries — so you can see how tracking looks before adding your own. It’s ordinary data: explore it freely, then when you’re ready for the real thing, delete the “Example Client” (timedart will offer to remove it and everything under it in one step) or archive it to tuck it away while keeping it around. See the Your data page for the difference between archiving and deleting.

How your work is organised

timedart uses a simple hierarchy:

Client: a person or organisation you bill. Owns projects and a default hourly rate.
Project: a body of work for one client, with an optional rate override and a reference code.
Task: a named unit of work inside a project.
Time entry: a single tracked interval against a task — a start, a duration, and an optional note.

A rate set lower down wins: a task uses its own rate if it has one, otherwise its project’s, otherwise the client’s default.

Track your first entry

Add a client and give it a default rate.
Add a project under that client.
Add a task to the project.
Select the task and press Start. The timer runs — you can pause and resume it.
Press Finish to save the interval as a time entry.

Note: A running timer survives quitting and reopening the app — it resumes where you left off, so you never lose in-progress time to a restart.

Turn time into an invoice

Once a project has time entries, open its Invoice view to preview a branded invoice and export it as a PDF. What appears on the invoice — your business details, logo, payment fields, and styling — comes from your profile and its template, which you set up once in Settings.

Where to go next

Tracking: clients, projects, tasks, rates, and the timer in depth.
Invoicing: profiles, templates, regions, and exporting PDFs.
Data: exporting, importing, backing up, archiving, and deleting.
Keyboard shortcuts: work faster on desktop.