My Time is the latest feature in Wise Owl Legal designed to streamline your time-tracking process. With My Time, you can easily record time against a matter and task from any screen within Wise Owl Legal, ensuring that you never have to disrupt your workflow.
My Time quick walkthrough video:
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Accessing My Time
Access My Time by clicking on the hourglass icon at the top right hand corner of the navigation bar.
This will open the My Time pop-up window.
Creating a My Time Record
Add My Time record by clicking the + icon in the My Time window
This will add a new row in the My Time grid and will ask you to enter the following required fields:
Matter
Task
Notes
Note: only accepts a maximum of 1000 characters.
Click on the little Save 💾 icon
A new time record is added with a timer running.
One My Time unit is equivalent to 6 minutes.
Stopping a Timer
When you finish working on a specific matter or task, you can stop the timer in My Time with just one click.
Click on the ❚❚ button to stop the timer.
Starting (Continuing) a Stopped Timer
If you need to continue working on a specific matter or task, My Time allows you to easily start and stop the timer.
This feature ensures seamless tracking for ongoing work without the need to create new entries, helping you maintain accurate and continuous time records.
Locate the matter/task combination on the My Time grid and click the ▶ button to continue the tracking.
Starting a new timer will automatically stop any timer that is currently running. This ensures that only one timer is active at a time, preventing overlapping time entries and maintaining accurate time tracking for each matter and task.
Updating My Time Record
To edit the notes/matter or task, locate the time record you wish to edit and click on the ✎ icon.
Update fields you wish to update and click 💾 to save changes.
Updating Timer Entry
In cases where you forgot to start/stop the timer accurately, you can manually edit the timer entries. Locate the time record you wish to edit and click on the little ⮞ icon located before the date.
This will expand and show all the time entries ran against the matter/task.
Click on the ✎ icon of the time entry you wish to update.
You can edit the Start Date/Time and End Date/Time by either typing manually or selecting the date/time picker.
Ensure that the new start date/time is earlier than the end date/time, application will flag you if you do so.
Click 💾 to save changes.
Deleting a My Time Record
Locate the time record you wish to delete and click on the 🗑 trash can icon.
Select Yes on the prompt message.
Deleting a time entry
Expand the My Time record where you wish to delete a time entry by clicking ⮞ icon.
Locate the time entry you wish to delete and click on the 🗑 trash can icon.
Select Yes on the prompt message.
Grouping column headers
My Time offers powerful customisation options to help you manage your time records more efficiently. You can easily group your time entries by columns, such as matter, task, or date, to get a clear overview of your work.
For example, if you want to group the time records by matter, simply drag the column header to the top where it says: “Drag a column header here to group by that column“
Customising columns
My Time allows you to personalize your grid view by customising the columns to suit your needs. You can easily rearrange columns and choose which columns to show or hide.