Now that you know how to create and manage your projects, let’s take a closer look at how you keep track of your time.

Begin by clicking on the Time & Reports tab in your Tempo account. To create a time slip, click on the Add Entry sub tab and you will see the following form:

Use the buttons in the upper right corner to switch between the quick text entry window, and the more traditional form. Let’s start by creating another time slip. Simply tell Tempo what you are currently working on, using the pound symbol # to identify the project and the @ symbol to identify the appropriate tags. When you are finished, click the Log Time button.

This will start a new smart timer for the project New Project with the tags tempo and testing; you will see our description appear as the note creating new time entries. Notice that Tempo automatically stops the timer that was previously running, and records it as a time slip in the time log.

In order to keep your tags and projects consistent, the text entry field has type-ahead suggestion:

If you do not specify a project, Tempo will assume that the time slip is associated with the same project as your previous time slip. For more information on text-based entry, see our help section.

From the time log, we can easily start and stop the timers for our different time slips. For example, if you are done making new time entries and you want to continue learning about tempo, click the clock icon next to the appropriate time slip.

You will see in the time log that Tempo has stopped the timer for ‘creating time entries’ and restarted the timer for ‘learning how to use tempo’.

It is time to learn how to organize all these time slips into a report. Onward!