Connecting with Todoist

If you use Todoist as a project management tool, you can easily integrate it with Everhour and start tracking time for all your Todoist tasks. No more tab switching.

How to setup

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You'll be prompted to connect during signup. To do this, you need to hit 'Todoist' button and let Everhour do the rest, step-by-step.

You can connect Todoist or any other platform at any time from the Integrations page in your account settings.

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You need to invite your team to join Everhour. During the registration process, they will need to connect their Todoist accounts and install our browser extension (we do not support Firefox and Safari). I.e. only those you invite into Everhour will be able to track time and see time progress. These are not necessarily all Todoist users. Same way your clients will not see anything in Todoist unless you add them to your Everhour team.

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You will need to grant access to our extension after it is installed. Click on its icon in the toolbar > Grant Access. Otherwise we won't be able to embed time tracking controls inside Todoist interface.

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Click on the  Extensions icon in Chrome, and then on the pin icon next to Everhour to make it visible all the time. This way you can always be aware if your timer is running or not (optional step).

How sync works

When you connect Todoist, Everhour will automatically sync all your projects across all teams and workspaces. We don't sync Inbox as a project.

Sync happens periodically and automatically so all new projects that you create in Todoist will be added to your Everhour account. Everhour also updates the names of tasks or projects if they were renamed in Todoist. This way Everhour reports will always show the freshest data.

How to trigger instant sync:

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If you just added a new project in Todoist or renamed the existing one and want to see these changes immediately in Everhour, you need to re-sync projects from the Integrations page manually.

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Same with tasks. If you've just renamed a task, added a new tag or moved the task into a different section and you want to see these changes instantly, you need to go to the Projects page, select the project(-s) with a change and hit 'Resync Data'.

Controls inside Todoist

After successful integration, Everhour supplements Todoist interface with a number of features. It does not work in Firefox and Safari at the moment.

1. Header: configure any project as billable, set up project budget, see total project hours and estimate (click to open project summary). By default, only admins can see the budget. You can enable showing budget to everyone. Regular members don't see anything money-related in Everhour;
2. Timer button and total time: total time reported by each employee and estimate into the task. The ability to quickly start tracking time without opening a task;
3. Task and user time or estimates: You can see the total input vs. planned time as well as individual progress in a task;
4. Buttons: you can track time using the timer or log time manually;
5. Side bar: use our 'Timesheet' button to open timesheet window. You’ll be able to quickly look at all your timekeeping for a Day or Week as well as quickly add time and comments for the tasks you have been working on.

Making reports with Todoist data

There are a number of columns that shows specific data coming from Todoist. Open a report builder and select any of columns to display the data in your report.

• Project and task accordingly show the names of Todoist projects and tasks; 
• Parent task column that can group your subtasks under the parent name; 
• Task number and Task status shows the task ID and whether it is open/closed.

Permissions

In general, we rely on Todoist's permissions a lot. If in Todoist the user has access to the task project, therefore, he can track the time in it. If you take away someone's access to the project in Todoist, this user will no longer be able to track time into its tasks. Past history will remain in the reports of the team, but the user will lose it.

Configuring budgets, marking a task as non-billable, assigning a client to the project can only be done by admins. It does not matter if an admin has access to the same project in Todoist. This is due to the fact that any admin should see the same totals in time reports and be able to configure projects billing and budgeting.

Regular users cannot track time into the archived project. Admins can do that, but only manually (timer is disabled). Thus, we indicate that the project is archived and make sure that no one tracks time accidentally.

Troubleshooting

It may happen that Todoist changes something in their code and these changes break some part of our functionality. We always do our best to apply the necessary corrections ASAP, but this requires updating our browser extension (this is how we embed into Todoist interface and there is no other mechanism). If you encounter an issue that something has stopped working, please make sure that you have the latest version of the extension installed. Read this article for more details.

If suddenly the review of our extension is delayed by Google team, as a temporarily workaround, you can install the dev version of our extension. Read this article for more details.

Disconnecting

To disable integration, go to 'Integrations' page in Everhour account. 

This option affects only your account, other team members are still able to track time. If the whole team disconnects Todoist, no one can track new time in Todoist, time history remains only in admin reports. 

To remove all Everhour controls from Todoist interface, delete our browser extension.