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Looking for a better way to add time

Karol Peake

I want an easier way to add time on a ticket. Having to click the three dots, then choose Log work, then fill in minutes/hours, then submit is very tedious.

Is there any native dashboard add-on or marketplace tool that would add a sidebar panel of buttons to quickly add +1m, +5m, +15M, +1h, with a double/triple click to get multiple minutes/hours?

If not, then it should be a Jira update! :-)

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Nick _CodeCove_

Hi,

Double/triple click to add time sounds handy but one misclick logs 5 min you didn't mean to.

We have a free plugin (Timesheets for Jira) with one-click presets (30m, 1h, 2h, 4h, 8h) on the issue. Not the 1m sidebar you asked for, but takes the log-time flow from 5 clicks to 3.

Karol Peake

That IS slightly helpful for some of my tickets, but not for my customer service tickets that get 1-15m logged on them. Is this customizable to set the quick click times?

Anwesha Pan

Hi @Karol Peake 👋🏻

First of all, welcome to the community. ✨

To answer your question, there are several Atlassian Marketplace tools that provide much faster, "one-click" time logging directly in the sidebar or issue view. Few named tools:

Simple Worklog Timer for Jira (Best for "One-Click" +15m/1h)
Time Assistant - Time Tracking (Best for Dashboard/Command Center)
Clockify - Time Tracking & Timesheet
WorklogPro - Best for Fast Grid-Based Logging

Like @Nick _CodeCove_ had mentioned and provided you an example of the tool he uses.

Hope this answers your question. 🙂

Thanks,
Anwesha

Karol Peake

Thanks Anwesha for the reply. I will send these suggestions over to my Admin

Rahul_RVS

Hi @Karol Peake

As suggested by everyone a mktplace app can help here. If you are open to try out one pls take a look at

Worklogs Time Tracking in Jira & Timesheets

With this add-on, you can easily -

Enter Time Spent for multiple issues from Time sheet screen. With Calendar view and Board view
Create time reports in real time by grouping & categorizing data with aggregation
Prepare your reports based on Project/Sprint/Issue Type/Assignees and various other filters
Group your data to build more meaningful reports
CSV Export
Dashboard gadget
Add and use custom fields to worklogs (like billable status, work type, cost center, etc.)

Disclaimer : I am part of the dev team

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Karol Peake

My admin said that he has already evaluated and pitched "Tempo Timesheets" to mgmnt.

Karol Peake

We did implement Tempo Timesheets and it's not exactly what I wanted but it's helpful. It is great that I don't have to do a separate timesheet outside of Jira now, I just add the time to each ticket and it auto adds to my timesheet and then at the end of the day I can backfill admin time spent doing non-ticket work.

Daria Spizheva_Reliex_

Hi @Karol Peake ! Thanks for the question — and honestly, you're right, the log-work flow in Jira is tedious. Three dots, menu, dialog, submit… for a 5-minute task, that's a lot of clicking.

Natively, Jira doesn't have quick +5m / +15m buttons. I'm from the ActivityTimeline team, and to be upfront, we don't have one-click increment buttons either. It only starts with 15m and goes to 8h. But we did rework the flow itself, because most people don't log one ticket — they log a day or a week:

You log work straight from your workspace by clicking the task — no menus.
The hours field is pre-filled based on your capacity, so often you just hit confirm.
Frequent tickets can be marked as favorites, so repeated logging takes seconds.
And there's a timesheet grid where you fill in the whole week across all your tickets in one view.

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So instead of making each log slightly faster, the idea is to log everything in one place, once. Hope this helps!

Karol Peake

Hi Daria, our Admin was able to get Tempo Timesheet approved and it doesn't have the ticket quick click functionality that I wanted, but it saves me on the time it was taking to fill out my timesheet at the end of week, as I'm only making one entry on the ticket and it's flowing directly to my timesheet. Not much I can do but use the tools they approve for us.

With Tempo Timesheet, I *would* still love to have some quickclick buttons and a way to have it default the start time to the time the ticket was changed to in progress, rather then the date/time that the ticket was created.

Kathryn Vargas

Hi @Karol Peake,

Thanks for sharing your feedback about Tempo Timesheets. I'm part of the Tempo team and we’re glad to hear it’s already saving you some time.

On your two asks: fixed one-click buttons for increments like +1m, +5m, +15m, +1h aren’t available today, and we also don’t currently anchor the start time to status transitions. We’ve noted both requests on our side.

For logging time from the Jira work item view, there are a couple of quicker options than going through … → Log work:

You can log directly from the Tempo panel on the Jira work item, which has a Log Time button. If you don’t see the panel, click the Apps menu at the top of the work item and select Tempo.
- It’s also worth checking with your admin whether the Tempo panel can be shown by default on your instance (via Tempo Settings > Logging Time > Show Tempo in the Jira Work Item View) so it’s there without having to open it each time.
There’s also a Tempo panel available in the right-hand sidebar.

For the short customer-service interactions you mentioned (the 15 minute bits of work), Tempo can also use Jira activity to generate time suggestions. That means work on Jira tickets can be surfaced as suggestions in Timesheets' My Work View, instead of having to reconstruct that time manually.

Tempo can also pull suggestions from other sources such as Google Calendar, Microsoft 365, and supported IDEs, which may be useful for other types of work.

Thanks again for the specific feedback around the quick-add buttons and status-based start times. I’d also be happy to jump on a call to learn more about how you're using Timesheets and the workflows you’d like to optimize.

Best,
Kathryn

TJ_ror2ti

Hi @Karol Peake,

Following up on the customizable-presets question — we recently shipped exactly this in TimeEase: a Quick Log Time panel in the issue sidebar with one-click preset buttons.

The presets are admin-configurable, so you can set short increments like 5m/10m/15m for support-style tickets alongside longer ones for other work — one click logs the time instantly, no modal.

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We actually built it after seeing our own ops team struggle with the same 4-5 click flow on high-volume tickets — it's made a real difference for them day to day.

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It's a companion to our existing Stopwatch (for live tracking) — this covers the "already did the work, logging it after the fact" case, which sounds closer to what you're describing.

TimeEase – Time Tracker, Timesheet & Worklog Viewer for Jira

Disclaimer: I'm the developer.

Karol Peake

Thanks TJ, my company already decided to go with Tempo Timesheet and implemented it. So we now log time a different way. Wish I had your buttons though!

Vladimir Letiagin

For the customer-service tickets with 1-15 minute bits, a timer beats quick-add buttons: you never have to guess whether it was 5 or 15 minutes. Planim Time does that from the menu bar (Mac / Windows / Linux): pin the tickets you touch all day, one click starts the timer when the call starts, one click stops it, and the worklog is written to the ticket with the exact duration. No three-dots menu, no Log work dialog. Forgot to start it? Add the entry by hand in the app and push, still fewer clicks than the Jira dialog.

Since it writes plain Jira worklogs through the standard API, they show up in the ticket's Work log tab like any manual entry. Tempo Cloud reads Jira worklogs, so they should appear in your Timesheets as well, but check that with your admin, Tempo sync settings vary per site.

The free tier covers the timer and push without limits: https://time.planim.app/jira

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