Introducing Favorite Entries: Get Quick Access to Most Frequent Tasks
Impatient to start working on your favorite tasks? The Favorite Entry feature allows you to do just that — quickly start working on your most important and most frequent tasks.
What is the Favorite Entry feature?
The Favorite Entry feature allows you to save recorded entries as favorites. This way, you can quickly start working on the same tasks again.
Favorited entries appear just below the tracker’s description field, where you can run a timer on them with the same information — description, project, client, billability, and tags.
Why use the Favorite Entry feature?
Using the Favorite Entry feature improves daily workflows, allowing quick access to:
- Priority tasks — Quickly start your work on the most important or urgent tasks.
- Regular daily tasks — Keep a neat overview of routine tasks throughout the day.
- Task switching — Easily switch between tasks without losing focus.
It can also help you:
- Build a routine — Favored Entries can serve as reminders to build new habits and work on new tasks.
- Reduce cognitive load — Employees can experience a reduced cognitive load by relying on pre-defined, favored tasks.
- Minimize distractions — Favorite Entries allow employees to quickly direct their attention toward the most important tasks.
Key use cases and examples
- Daily stand-up meetings — Project managers or team leads can record daily stand-up meetings using the Favorite Time Entry feature.
- Routine administrative tasks — An employee handling daily tasks like email management, scheduling, and document preparation can benefit from quick access to these entries.
- Regular maintenance checks — The Favorite Time Entry feature can be used by IT professionals performing daily or weekly system maintenance checks.
- Daily or weekly reporting — Using this feature, an analyst or accountant can easily record the time they spend preparing daily or weekly reports.
- Regular training sessions — Training sessions or classes conducted by trainers or educators can be consistently logged using the favorite time entry feature.
How to set up Favorite Entries in Clockify
Once enabled, each person can have a maximum of 5 favored entries.
To mark a time entry as a favorite:
- Navigate to the Time Tracker page.
- Click on the three-dots button of that entry.
- Choose Add as favorite option from the dropdown.
Optionally change the entry’s name in the Add as favorite pop-up.
Now, your Favorite Entries will appear as shortcuts below the description field on the Time Tracker page.