Clients, projects, tasks, rates, and the timer in depth.

Tracking time

The hierarchy

timedart organises billable work into three levels, each owned by the one above:

• Client: a person or organisation you bill. Owns projects and a default hourly rate.
• Project: a body of work for one client. Carries an optional rate override and a reference code.
• Task: a named unit of work inside a project. This is what you actually start a timer against.

A time entry is the atom underneath all of this: a single tracked interval against a task — a start, a duration, and an optional note.

Rates

A rate can be set at three levels: the client’s default, a project’s override, or a task’s own rate.

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

This lets you set one sensible default per client and only override it where a specific project or task is billed differently.

The timer

Select a task and press Start to begin timing it. The timer can be paused and resumed, and Finish stops it and saves the tracked interval as a time entry.

A task’s project is bound the moment you start the timer on it — switching your selection elsewhere mid-session doesn’t move or lose the time already being tracked.

Note: A running timer is saved as you go, not just held in memory — it survives quitting and reopening the app, resuming exactly where you left off. You never lose in-progress time to a restart.

Time entries

Each finished session becomes a time entry: a start time, a duration, and an optional note. Time entries are what an invoice’s line items are built from — no time entry, nothing to bill.