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How To Use Toggl

Time Tracker

What is Toggl?

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Toggl is an extremely simple time tracker.

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It is meant to improve productivity.

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• Toggl is time tracking software operated by Toggl OÜ, headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia, that offers online time tracking and reporting services through their website along with mobile and desktop applications.

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Source: Wikipedia

• Toggl tracks time based on tasks and projects, either through an interactive task timer or through manual entry.

Source: Wikipedia

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• Time entries and active timers are synchronized in real-time via a cloud service to the web site and various applications.

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Source: Wikipedia

• Reporting features allow users to track the time spent on various projects and analyze productivity.

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Source: Wikipedia

What operating systems allow the use of Toggl?

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Source: Wikipedia

Web AppMicrosoft Windows

Mac OS X 10.4 and laterLinuxiOS

AndroidSymbian

BlackBerry OS

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Source: Wikipedia

Let’s begin the tutorial!

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Go to Google.com.

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Type “toggl”.

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Hit Enter.

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This will appear.

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Click on the toggl link.

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You will be directed to the official website.

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This is the homepage.

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The homepage may change in appearance over time.

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Just by simply looking at the homepage, you will already know how Toggl works.

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You will see that there is a time tracker which shows how long you have been reading info in Toggl.com.

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Image source: Toggl official website

There will also be a flash video on the applications of Toggl.

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Just click on “See the video” to watch the explainer video.

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Toggl can be used in the following:

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Time your board meetings

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Image source: Toggl official website

Time your patience

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Time your holiday

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Image source: Toggl official website

Time your lunch

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Image source: Toggl official website

Time your tardiness

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Image source: Toggl official website

You can time just about anything!

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Image source: Toggl official website

To start using Toggl, we would need to sign up first.

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Image source: Toggl official website

Click on either “Sign up” or “Start Tracking”.

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Image source: Toggl official website

This will appear.

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There are two ways to sign up.

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You can use your email.

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Or you can simply log in using your Google account.

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For this tutorial, let’s sign up using a Google account.

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Click “Sign up with Google”.

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After signing up, you will be directed to your Toggl dashboard.

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There will tips in green and white which serve as a walkthrough of Toggl’s features if you’re a first time

user.

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This is how it looks like.

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Click on “Ok, let’s go!” to acknowledge.

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This is your dashboard.

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Type your current activity here.

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Then click on “Go”.

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You will see that the time tracking will start.

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Click on “Stop” once you’re done with your activity.

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You can edit the time manually by clicking the recorded time.

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Just input the desired changes here.

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You can edit the start time, end time, the date.

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You can add time manually by clicking on “Add Manually”.

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This will appear.

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Type the activity here.

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Add the start and end time here.

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The duration will automatically be calculated.

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Edit the date here.

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A calendar will appear.

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Just select the date when the activity was done.

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Click on “Save”.

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You will see a summary of the activities you’ve done in the dashboard.

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You can create “Projects” to segregate specific tasks.

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There are several ways to do it.

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You can click “+Create A Project“ under the Timer tab.

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You can also create one under the “Projects” tab.

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This is the Projects tab.

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From the Projects tab, click on “Create Project”.

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This popup will appear.

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Type the project name here.

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You can also specify the client.

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Click on “Select Client”.

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Type the client name here.

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Let’s say for example that the client’s name is John Smith.

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Type “John Smith” in the field and click “Create client “John Smith”.

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You can color code your projects by clicking on “Project color”.

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If you are part of a team, you have the option to make the project visible to others in the team.

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Just tick on “Public.”

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Let’s keep the project visible only to you for now.

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You have the option to make changes at a later time.

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Click “Create project.”

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The next time you create a task, you now have the option to put it under a specific project.

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Let’s start timing a task.

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Go back to the Timer tab.

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Click here.

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Type in the task here.

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Select the project.

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Then click “Go!”.

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Toggl would start tracking time spent on the activity that you entered.

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Just click on stop once you’re through.

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Toggl can be added as a browser extension.

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Let’s add Toggl to Google Chrome.

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Go back to Google and type “Toggl button chrome”.

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Hit Enter.

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Click this.

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This will appear.

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Click on “Add to Chrome”.

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Click “Add” when this popup appears.

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You will see this notification and the Toggl icon.

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To start tracking just click on the Toggl icon in your Chrome browser.

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Click on “Start timer.”

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The Toggl icon will change its color to red which means it is actively tracking time.

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Click on the Toggl icon to see the real time tracking.

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If you are done with the activity, just click on “Stop timer”.

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Toggl may be also be incorporated to third-paty applications such as Asana and Basecamp.

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If you incorporate it to Asana for example, you will get an email towards the end of the week on the tasks

that were tracked using Toggl.

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And that’s how you use Toggl.

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I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.

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You can see more awesome tutorials like this in my website.

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Please visit

https://theultimatevaresource.wordpress.com

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I would greatly appreciate your comments!

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Start using Toggl now and improve your productivity!

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One last gift for you.

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All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.

Martin H. Fischer

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