(The Day view in Productive's My Time section offers a clear and intuitive interface for managing and logging your daily work hours.

By visualizing your time entries day by day, you can track and organize your activities with precision. This is particularly useful for gaining insights into daily tasks and ensuring accurate time management.

Access the Day view by navigating to the Time tab, selecting My Time, and switching to the Day view option located to the right.

Select the day for which you want to add a time entry. Use the arrows and the date picker to navigate between weeks, and click the dot in the middle to return to the current week. The chosen day will be highlighted with a violet stripe, indicating your selection.
​

📌 Note that in Productive, time is tracked against a specific budget and service within that budget or a sales deal. It’s important to select the correct budget and service to ensure accurate time tracking.

To add a time entry in the Day view, open the service dropdown on the left side of your screen and:

​1) Select the Client, Project, Budget, and Service

Ensure you’ve selected a service from the right project and budget/deal from the service dropdown.

You can view budget service sections in the service picker. For example, if you select "The Ads Campaign" project, navigate to the "Ads Campaign: Social" budget, then to the "Helix: Phase 1" service section, and finally select the desired service.
​

2) Enter Duration

Specify how long you worked, either in a total or a range, or both: e.g. 5 hours, from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

3) Add a Note

Put a brief description of what you’ve been working on in the Note field before selecting Save.
​

4) Save the entry, and it will appear to the right.

The Day view also includes time tracking suggestions, based on:

Clicking a suggestion creates an editable time entry with pre-filled budget/deal and service information, except for calendar events, which require a service to be assigned. You can still add notes or adjust the duration.

📌 Time tracking suggestions are also available in the Timesheet view in My Time, and in the desktop time tracking widget.

Manually pin services for easier access. Hover over the service name, click the pin 📌 icon, and it will move to your Pinned section for quick access.

When scheduled for a service in the Resource Planner, you'll get automatic time-tracking suggestions in the "You are scheduled on" section.

The Recently Tracked section lists services you have recently tracked time against, making it easy to log time for ongoing work.

If you have a Google or Outlook calendar connected to Productive, your events for the selected day appear in the Calendar section of the suggestions panel.

Click on an event to open a pop-up where you can assign a service, adjust the hours, change the date, or add a note before saving.

👉 Learn how to connect your Google Calendar or Outlook Calendar.

Selecting the three-dot menu to the right of a time entry allows you to edit the entry, pin the service for easy selection next time you track time, duplicate the entry, view timer logs (if you used the timer), or delete the entry.

You can also directly edit the entry details by typing in the available fields.

To assign the time entry to a specific project task, click Assign to task.

👉 Find out more about tracking time on tasks here.

Selecting the Work Log opens a sidebar window with an overview of all your activities for the selected period logged in Productive.

This shortcut can be very useful if you need a reminder of all your activities, helping you make time entries smoother.

The "Hide weekends" toggle, accessed through the gear icon on the right, adds or removes the weekends from your view.

Enable Include absence in total to add absence bookings to that day's total hours.

Toggle Show calendar events to show or hide events from your connected Google or Outlook calendar in the suggestions panel. If you haven't connected a calendar, this toggle won't be visible.

For a visual guide, check out our YouTube video on using the Day view in My Time.