Your First Time Entry
Time entries are the atomic unit of TimeCampus — every total, report, and insight builds on them. This tutorial takes you from an empty workspace to your first tracked time in a few minutes.
TimeCampus is generally available — create an account at app.timecampus.com.
What you'll do
- Start and stop the one-tap timer
- See the entry appear in your entries list
- Add a manual entry for time you forgot to track
- Attribute time to a project
- Find your time on the Dashboard, Timeline, and in Reports
1. Start the timer
- Go to Time Tracking → Timer.
- Add a short description of what you're working on (you can edit it later).
- Tap Start.
The timer is now running and elapsed time counts up live. There's exactly one thing to remember: tap start when you begin. Everything else is derived for you.
2. Stop the timer
When you're done, tap Stop. TimeCampus closes the running timer into a finished time entry:
- Start and end times are recorded
- Duration is computed for you — no arithmetic
- The entry is marked as coming from the timer, so you can always tell timed entries from manual ones
3. See the entry
Open Time Tracking → Entries. Your new entry is in the list with its description, times, and duration. From here you can edit it, duplicate it, or delete it — the Time entries guide covers the full list.
4. Add a manual entry
Forgot to start the timer this morning? Add the block after the fact:
- In Time Tracking → Entries, create a new entry.
- Set the description, start time, and end time.
- Save.
Manual entries and timer entries live side by side and count equally in your totals. Corrections are a feature, not a failure — TimeCampus is designed to learn from the corrections you make, so categorisation gets more accurate over time.
5. Attribute it to a project
Entries become far more useful once they're attributed:
| Attribution | What it gives you |
|---|---|
| Project | Per-project totals, budgets, and client-ready breakdowns — see Projects |
| Task | Finer-grained tracking inside a project — see Tasks |
| Billable flag | Separates billable from non-billable hours in every total — see Budgets & billable time |
You can set a project and task when starting the timer, when creating a manual entry, or by editing an entry afterwards. On the Timeline, your time also appears contextually grouped — meetings, deep work, communication — so the day reads as a story rather than a list.
Where your time shows up
One entry, many views:
| Surface | What you'll see |
|---|---|
| Dashboard | Today's and this week's totals, billable hours, and any running timer — see Dashboard |
| Timeline | The entry placed chronologically in your day — see Timeline |
| Reports | The entry rolled into exportable timesheets and project breakdowns — see Reports |
| Time Approval | If your team uses sign-off, entries are what you submit for a period — see Time approval |
Honest totals, instantly
As soon as entries exist, TimeCampus keeps running stats for any date range — total hours, billable hours, entry count, and active timers. No spreadsheet, no end-of-week reconstruction.
Next steps
- Dashboard — compose your at-a-glance day
- Timer — the full timer guide
- Time entries — filtering, editing, and bulk operations