Recording Sessions

Sessions are a great way of recording where you actually spend your time on.

Imagine you are at work... Most of your day is spent at your computer. You are going to be splitting your time up between a number of different jobs.

Lets imagine that you have 3 jobs listed for the day:

If you want to start work on the report, click on that task and press the Start Sessionbutton. From that point, JXCirrus Diary will start recording the time spent on that task. Later in the day, you finish the report, so you want to start looking at CVs - Press Start Session for the CVs task. Later, your boss wants some changes to the report, so you press Start Session for the report task. Finally, you get to planning tasks (press Start Session for that). Then it is home time, so you press Stop Session (on the main toolbar)...

Now you know exactly how much time you spent on each job. This is great for:

Starting and Stopping

To start recording a session:

When you are recording a session, the task you are recording will appear as a green button on the toolbar, with the title of the task, and the time for that session. If you click on this task, the app will take you to that task.   For mobile applications, this will take you to the Entry Details view.   For desktop, it will go to that entry in your current view.

When you want to stop a session, press the Stop Session, which is on the main toolbar.

Viewing Session Information

There are many different areas where you can see the session information:

Editing Session Information

There are 2 ways you can edit your spent time (if you made a mistake on what session you ran).