We can now explore what really separates Tempo from competing time-tracker applications. Tempo’s tag-based organizational scheme makes it easy to quickly organize your time slips into a report.

After you log into your account, click on the Time & Reports tab and you will see a report of all the time that you have logged in the past seven days. This is the default setting:

However, the sidebar to the right of the report allows you to change the contents of the report quickly and easily.

Tempo offers some standard date ranges available in the first drop down menu; however, the ‘more’ link will reveal Tempo’s date range selectors. You may use these date selectors (or the calendar view ) to select the range that you desire.

Under the Projects heading, simply click and highlight those projects that you want to show up in the report:

As above you should also highlight the tags and collaborators that you want in the report. As you make these changes, Tempo’s time log will update automatically, leaving you with the report that you customized.

Let’s go through one example. Suppose you want to know how many hours Keith Kogane and Lance McClain spent doing database development in June for the projects [Big Box] Web Dev and [My Company] Internal. First adjust the date range by selecting the ‘month to date’ option from the drop down menu. Click the appropriate projects under the Projects heading. Likewise, highlight Keith and Lance in the People heading, and select the tags database and development. It will generate the following report:

Continue on to see Tempo’s many report options.