Work
Track professional work across multiple jobs with time logging, task management, and job-type-specific planning.
Job types
The Work feature supports three types of jobs, each with its own planning model:
Software engineering
Manage engineering work with tickets organised under projects. Each ticket has a status, priority, assignee, ETA, and a checklist of tasks. Add a team roster to track who’s working on what. Time sessions can be linked to a specific ticket.
Client-based
For consultants and agencies. Manage clients and their projects with metadata (status, ETA, budget, rate, notes). Track milestones and mark them complete as you deliver. Sessions can be marked as billable.
Store
For retail and small business operations. Manage areas (e.g. Permits, Fit-out, Inventory) with milestones that track progress. Keep a store profile, supplier list, operational task templates, product inventory, stock events (receive / sale / adjust / waste), and staff shifts. Store profit and loss is tracked by linking finance transactions to the job.
Time logging
Log time against any job. Sessions can be recorded in two ways:
- Live timer — start a timer when you begin work and stop it when you’re done. The elapsed time is recorded as the session.
- Manual entry — enter the date, start time, and end time directly.
Sessions can optionally be linked to a specific project, ticket, or activity category. Review your time log by date range and job.
Getting started
When you create a Store job, the app can seed a launch template with starter areas, milestones, and an empty store profile. Software engineering and client-based jobs start blank — you set up your projects and tickets from scratch.
Tips
- Use tickets for SE work: Even informal projects benefit from tickets. They give you traceability between your time log and what you actually worked on.
- Store P&L is automatic: If you link a finance account to a store job, revenue and expense transactions against that account appear in the store’s P&L view automatically.
- Activity categories help: Assign a category to each time session so you can later analyse how your time is distributed across different types of work.
Our approach
Oter’s work feature addresses the cost of task-switching (Monsell, 2003) and the conditions for flow (Csikszentmihalyi, 1990). Multi-job separation keeps mental contexts clean, session-based tracking aligns with natural attention rhythms, and project/ticket hierarchies support meaningful task identity (Hackman & Oldham, 1976).