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Tracking breaks

With break capture enabled, one click interrupts work and starts a break — on desktop and phone alike. Breaks are never billable, never appear in project reports, and feed into the working-time report.

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Time tracker with the Pause button on the timer and a break entry in the list
Desktop
Time tracker with the Pause button on the timer and a break entry in the list (Mobile)
Mobile

Step by step

  1. 01

    Enable break capture

    Settings → Workspace → General: switch on “Break capture” (admin/owner). Only then does the Pause button appear — teams without break capture see no new controls at all.

  2. 02

    Pause with one click

    While a timer runs, the Pause button (coffee-cup icon) stops the work entry and immediately starts a break. Stopping again ends the break; you resume work deliberately — e.g. via “Resume” on your last entry.

  3. 03

    Log breaks manually

    In manual mode (and in the calendar) choose “Break” instead of “Work” when creating an entry: just date, from–to and an optional description — no project, no billability.

  4. 04

    What happens with breaks

    Breaks show in your entries list and calendar with the coffee-cup icon, but never count toward project hours, utilisation or billable time. The working-time report shows them as break time per day.

I don’t see a Pause button — why?

Break capture is a per-workspace setting and off by default. An admin or owner enables it under Settings → Workspace → General.

Can I convert a work entry into a break later?

No — the type is fixed at creation. Delete the entry and re-create it as a break; that keeps the change history unambiguous.

Do I need break capture for the working-time report?

No. With capture off, the report counts time between two entries as break time. With capture on, recorded breaks count as break time — unrecorded gaps appear separately in the “untracked” column.