🎛️ Jira gives every task the same Log Work form. That's the problem.

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Jira gives every task the same Log Work form. Every Jira time tracker I've seen does the same — and I've analyzed a lot of them. Not one lets you customize the form per work item. The same fields for everyone, whether they're logging a day on a client's site or an internal task. It sounds like a non-issue until you run a team on it: the work logs come back half-empty, half-wrong, or cluttered with fields nobody on that task needed.

What we built instead

We hit this wall ourselves, so we fixed it. A little while ago we shipped Field Schemes in JetTime, our time tracking app for Jira. It builds the Log Work form per work item, from rules you define.

Here's how it works. In JetTime you can add your own custom fields and metrics — plus custom time categories like Billable or Travel — to the Log Work form. A scheme is a set of these fields to show, and rules for which work items it applies to. When someone logs work, JetTime looks at the work item, finds the scheme whose rules match, and builds the form from it. If nothing matches, a default scheme applies — so there's always a form, and no work item is ever left unconfigured.

Each field can be visible for one kind of work and completely hidden for another. Not just optional — actually gone from the form. That's the part native Jira can't do.

We also added something small that turned out to matter a lot: a Notes block you can drop into any form. People don't always know the logging rules for a given kind of work — what counts as billable, how to structure the work description. Notes lets you put a short, contextual hint right on the form, exactly where they're about to log.

Now the part where my own marketing guidelines make me say that JetTime Runs on Atlassian — it lives entirely inside Atlassian's cloud, so your work log data never leaves Jira and we can't touch it. But it's genuinely true, and if you track client-billable or contract work, it actually matters.

Try it, and let me know if it breaks

So — if any of this sounds like your team, try JetTime on your own work items and see how it lands. Set up a form or two, log some work, notice what fits your workflow and what doesn't.

Then let me know how it went. We're early and work for feedback — and I'm the founder, so I read every message myself, usually same-day. Drop me a line at anton@jetheads.io.

Prefer a demo? Email me at the same address and we'll hop on a quick call. I'll walk through setting JetTime up around the way your team actually works. No pitch.